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2-3 in. long, upper small, ovate; flower-bracts ovate-cuspidate, 

 green, tinged with reddish brown, turning brown. Ovary with calyx 



1 in. long; ovary globose, green, finally white; sepals shortly 

 mucronate, yellow turning purple. Petals linear, pale yellow, 

 protruded ^ in. 



Hab. Columbia ; western base of Mt. Quindio, alt. 3000 ft., Andre 2425. 



3. Subgenus Pironneava (Gaiidich.) 



37. M. EXSUDANS Baker. Bromelia exsudans Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 

 801. B. 'paniculigera Eeich. Icon. Exot. t. 239-240. Tillandsia 

 exsudans Desf. Hohenhergia exsudans E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 

 1879, 352, t. 18. M. capitata Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 167. 

 H. capitata Schultes fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1252. — Leaves about 20 in 

 a utricular rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 2-3 ft. long, 1^ in. 

 broad, plain green on the channelled face, thinly white -lepidote on 

 the back, rounded to a cusp at the tip, the marginal prickles small, 

 horny, deltoid. Peduncle erect. If ft. long ; bract-leaves lanceo- 

 late, adpressed, upper bright red. Flowers in a dense globose 

 terminal capitulum 3-4 in. diam. ; flower-bracts ovate-acuminate, 

 green, |-1 in. long. Calyx with ovary as long as the bract ; sepals 

 lanceolate, 7-8 lines long. Petals bright yellow, f in. longer than 

 the calyx. 



Hab. Brazil ; province of Baliia, Martlus. Introduced into cultivation by 

 Loddiges in 1824. Figured by Morren from a plant that flowered with M. 

 Schlumberger of Eouen in 1878. 



38. M. CHRYSOCOMA Baker. Hohenhergia chrysocoma E. Morren, 

 inedit. — Leaves about 20 in a utricular rosette, lorate from an ovate 

 base, the outer above 2 ft. long, much recurved, the inner suberect, 

 l|in. broad at the middle, plain green on the face, thinly white- 

 lepidote on the back, rounded to a cusp at the apex, the marginal 

 teeth midddle-sized, brown, deltoid-cuspidate. Peduncle slender, 

 erect. If ft. long ; lower bract-leaves adpressed, imbricated ; 2-3 

 upper erecto-patent bright red. Inflorescence a capitulum com- 

 posed of about 3 oblong or subglobose dense strobiliform spikes 

 If in. long ; flower-bracts oblong- acuminate, bright yellow, an inch 

 long. Calyx with ovary as long as the bracts; sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate. Petals bright yellow, protruded f-f in. 



Hab. Nearly alllied to JE. exsudans. Introduced into cultivation by 

 Devansaye in 1881. Pernambuco, Ridley (& Ramage ! 



39. M. PYCNANTHA Baker. Pothuava pycnantha Hort. (M.D.). — 

 Leaves a dozen or more in a utricular rosette, lorate from an ovate 

 base, 2 ft. long, 3 in. broad at the middle, horny, plain green on 

 the deeply concave face, thinly lepidote and obscurely transversely 

 banded on the back, rounded to a cusp at the tip, the marginal 

 teeth small, ascending, deltoid, concolorous. Peduncle stout, a 

 foot long ; bract-leaves imbricated, lanceolate, erect ; upper not 

 brightly coloured. Inflorescence a dense oblong panicle 3 in. long, 



2 in. diam., composed of about 30 sessile ovoid erecto-patent 

 spikes |-1 in. long ; flower-bracts broad ovate, acute, f in. long. 



