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51. JE. GLOMEKATA Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 6668. Hohenbergia 

 stellata Schultes fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1251. H. erythrostachys Brong. 

 in Journ. Imp. Soc. Hort. July, 1864, with fig. ; Carriere in Kev. 

 Hort. 1869, 217, fig. 58 (M.D.). Pironneava roseo-ccerulea K. Koch. 

 P. Morreniana Eegel, Gartenfl. t. 805. — Leaves 12-20 in a utricular 

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

 the middle, moderately horny in texture, plain green on both sides, 

 obscurely mottled with darker green when young, deltoid-cuspidate 

 at the tip, the marginal prickles minute, brown, deltoid. Peduncle 

 1-1^ ft. long ; bract-leaves pale, adpressed. Inflorescence a narrow 

 panicle a foot long ; clusters of flowers globose, l-lj- in. diam., the 

 upper close and sessile, the lower remote and peduncled ; flower- 

 bracts ovate-acuminate, bright red, ^-f in. long. Calyx with 

 ovary J-f in. long ; sepals deltoid-cuspidate. Petals reddish lilac, 

 twice as long as the sepals. 



Var. PALLIDA Baker. — Flower-bracts greenish white and ovary 

 the same colour. 



Hab. Brazil! province of Bahia. First gathered by Martius 2211. Intro- 

 duced into cultivation by M. Porte about 1860, and now one of the commonest 

 species of the genus. 



52. M. OLiGosPH^KA Baker. — Leaves lorate, moderately thin, 

 2 in. broad, rounded to a cusp at the apex ; marginal prickles 

 small, deflexed. Inflorescence a panicle with shortly peduncled 

 globose heads 2|~3 in. diam. ; branch-bracts large, ovate-lanceo- 

 late ; flower-bracts ovate-acuminate, an inch long. Sepals lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, ^ in. long. Petals not seen. 



Hab. Caracas, Gollmer ! (Herb. Eeg. BeroL). Collected in 1853. This no 

 doubt is the Venezuelan plant referred by Dr. Karl Koch to ^. glomerata. 



53. M. Wrightii Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 163. jE. distans 

 Griseb. PL Cub. 253. — Leaves lorate from an oblong base, l|-2 ft. 

 long, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, horny in texture, thinly lepidote 

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

 close, deltoid, minute, brown, horny. Peduncle very slender, 

 above 2 ft. long ; bract-leaves small, distant, lanceolate, adpressed. 

 Panicle |~1 ft. long, composed of distant oblong strobiliferous 

 spikes 1-li in. long on short spreading peduncles, subtended by 

 lanceolate branch-bracts 1-2 in. long ; flower-bracts coriaceous, 

 broad ovate, mucronate, ^ in. long. Calyx with ovary finally 

 longer than the bract ; sepals ovate, with a small cusp, much 

 shorter than the ovary. Petals pale, twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. Eastern Cuba, near Monte Verde, C. Wright 1525! GutJmickl (Mus. 

 Brit.). There is a specimen in the Paris Herbarium from a plant grown by 

 Quesnel at Havre in 1843, received by him from Havana. Sintenis 1321, from 

 Porto Rico, has narrower leaves than the Cuban plant and may be distinct. 



54. M. LONGiSEPALA Baker. — Habit of jE. glomerata. Leaves 

 not seen. Inflorescence a long panicle, the lower branches formed 

 of 8-10 densely glomerate spikes forming a globose cluster 3-4 in. 

 diam., on a short spreading peduncle. Flower-bracts ovate- 

 cuspidate, coriaceous, f-1 in. long. Calyx with ovary J in. long ; 

 sepals lanceolate-acuminate. 



Hab. Bahia, Blarichet 241 (Herb. Mus. Brit.). 



