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base, 1-1|- ft. long, li-l| in. broad at the middle, plain green on 

 both surfaces. Peduncle under a foot long. Inflorescence a dense 

 rhomboid panicle 2-3 in. long: racliis bright red ; lower branches 

 erecto-patent, forked, subtended by small scariose bracts. Ovary 

 with calyx oblong, i in. long, bright red. Petals lilac, ^ in. long. 



Var. FARiNOSA Baker. Lampfococcus farinosus Regel in Ind. 

 Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1868, App. 79. — Leaves white -farinose, espe- 

 cially beneath. 



Var. DISCOLOR Beer. — Leaves claret-brown beneath. 



Hab. Probably Brazil. Described from a plant at Kew ; specimens in 

 the herbarium of Dr. Karl Koch, and one from the Paris Garden dried in 

 Jan., 1854, and Prof. Morren's drawing. Very near J^.fulgeiis. 



70. M. MiNiATA Hort. Lamprococcus miniatus Beer, Brom. 104 ; 

 K. Koch, Woclien. iii. 75. — Leaves a dozen or more in a utricular 

 rosette, lorate from an ovate base, l-lf ft. long, plain green on 

 both sides, the marginal teeth minute. Peduncle under a foot 

 long ; bract-leaves pale, scariose, adpressed. Liflorescence a mode- 

 rately dense panicle 4-5 in. long, with red rachises ; lower branches 

 forked. Calyx with ovary oblong, bright red, ^-^ in. long. Petals 

 lilac, protruded ^ in. 



Var. DISCOLOR Beer (M.D.). — Leaves bright claret-brown 

 beneath. 



Hab. Bahia, Blanchet ! Wawra db 3Ialy 259. Seen also in Dr. Karl Koch's 

 herbarium. Very near AS. conglomerata, with which it is combined specifically in 

 Morren's catalogue of 1873. 



71. ^. Weilbachii F. Didr. ; Liebm. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, 

 ii. 373. Laiirprococcus Weilbachii E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1861, 

 305, with figure ; Eegel, Gartenfl. t. 539 ; Baker in Bot. Mag, t. 

 6435. L. Laurentianus K. Koch, Woclien. iii. 73. — Leaves 12-20 

 in a rosette, lorate from an ovate base, l-lf ft. long, 1^ in. broad 

 at the middle, very pliable in texture, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex, 

 both sides bright green, the marginal teeth minute. Peduncle 

 1-1-1 ft. long, glabrous, dull red; bract-leaves adpressed, imbricated. 

 Inflorescence a lax bipinnate panicle 4-6 in. long with a bright 

 rachis ; branches 4-6, 3-4-flowered, clasped by large oblong- 

 lanceolate acute navicular bracts ; flower-bracts round-navicular, 

 ^-i in. long. Ovary with the calyx oblong, ^ in. long, the former 

 bright red, globose ; sepals ovate, bright lilac. Petals exserted 

 J in., lilac, soon turning brown-black. 



Hab. Woods of South Brazil ! Corcovado, &c,, Miers 3579 ! Glaziou 932G ! 

 Introduced to the Copenhagen Botanic Garden in 1854. Described from plants 

 that flowered at Kew in 1877 and Paris in 1868. 



72. M. brachycaulis Baker. Lamprococcus hrachycaulis E. 

 Morren, inedit. (M.D.). — Produced leaves 8-10 in a rosette, 

 ensiform from an ovate base, 1^ ft. long, an inch broad at the 

 middle, thin in texture, plain dark green on the face, uniform 

 claret-brown all over the back, the marginal teeth minute. Flowers 

 in an oblong capitulum placed at the top of the utriculus of the 

 rosette. Ovary with calyx bright red. Petals whitish, exserted 



i-i in. 



Hab. Probably Brazil. Described from Professor Morren's drawing made 

 in 1883, from a plant received from M. Jacob Makoy and Co. 



