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Hab. Woods of South Brazil, near Petropolis, Wawra 63. Closely allied to 

 ^E. spectabilis. 



66. M. HoKELii, Kegel, Descr. 1887, 5; Munich Illust. Monat. 

 viii. 142, with figure. — Leaves lorate from an ovate base, 2-2^ ft. 

 long, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, plain green on the face, thinly 

 white-lepidote on the back, the spreading deltoid marginal teeth 

 l-12th in. long. Peduncle stout, floccose, l^- ft. long. Inflores- 

 cence a deltoid tripinnate panicle 1| ft. long ; lower branches 

 patent, ^-Q in. long ; branchlets 1-5-flowered ; lower flowers 

 shortly pedicellate ; flower-bracts minute {^ line) mucronate. 

 Ovary and calyx pale red ; sepals ovate, ^ in. long, minutely 

 mucronate. Petals dark purple, shortly protruded. 



Hab. Country unknown. Flowered in the Petersburg Botanic Garden in 

 1887. Allied to .E. spectabilis. 



Subgenus 5. Lampeococcus {Beer). 



67. M. FULGENS Brong. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xv. 371 ; 

 Flore des Serres, ii. 38, with figure ; Paxt. Mag. x. 173, with 

 figure. Lamprococcns fulgeiis Beer, Brom. 103. — Leaves about 20 

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

 2-2|- in. broad, plain green on the face, slightly glaucous, not 

 banded on the back, not horny, rounded to a cusp at the apex, the 

 marginal teeth minute. Peduncle a foot long, glabrous, bright 

 red ; bract-leaves few, lanceolate, pale, scariose. Inflorescence a 

 lax deltoid panicle ^ ft. long ; rachises bright red ; only 1-2 lowest 

 branches subtended by small pale lanceolate bracts; branches 

 4-6-flowered, lowest forked ; flower-bracts very minute or obsolete. 

 Ovary with calyx oblong, J in. long, the former bright red, the 

 sepals ovate, purplish towards the tip. Petals pale lilac, exserted 

 i-k in. 



Var. DISCOLOR Brong. yEchmea discolor Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 

 4293 ; Ann. Gand 1869, t. Q5 ; Moore in Gard. Mag. Bot. 1850, t. 

 121. — Leaf bright claret-brown all over the lower surface, often with 

 obscure farinose bands above. 



Hab. French Guiana. First gathered by Melinon about 1840. Bahia, 

 Blancliet 2371 ! Var. discolor was introduced by Quesnel from Pernambuco 

 about 1842. 



68. M. CORALLINA Broug. inedit. Lamprococcns corallinus Beer, 

 Brom. 106; K. Koch, Wochen, iii. 76 (M.D.).— Leaves about a 

 dozen in a utricular rosette, lorate from an ovate base, I-I2 ft. 

 long, 1^ in. broad, plain green on both sides, the marginal teeth 

 minute. Peduncle under a foot long. Inflorescence a dense deltoid 

 panicle 3-4 in. long and broad : rachises dirty ochreous yellow. 

 Calyx with ovary |in. long, both bright coral-red. Petals white, 

 exserted ^ in. beyond the sepals. 



Hab. Brazil ; probably Bahia. Introduced into cultivation by M. Morel, 

 of Paris, about 1850. Described principally from Prof. Morren's drawing, made 

 from a plant that flowered in the Botanic Garden at Li^ge, in Sept., 1865. 

 Very near M. fulgens. 



69. M. coNGLOMERATA Hort. Berol. Lamprococcns glomeratus 

 Beer, Brom. 105. — Leaves 12-20 in a rosette, lorate from an ovate 



