KARAT AS. 7 



long; sepals lanceolate, greenish, f in. long. Petals violet, 

 protruded ^ in. beyond the tip of the calyx. Filaments very short. 



Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 15849 ! Introduced to the St. Petersburg 

 Botanic Garden in 1858. Described from plants that flowered at Kew in 1877 

 and 1885. 



17. K. LEUCOPHCEA Baker. Nidularium leucojjJiceum E. Morren 

 (M.D.). Andrea spectabilis Hort. Gall. — Habit of a Billhergia. 

 Leaves about a dozen in a rosette, lorate, 2 ft. long, 2-|- in. broad 

 at the middle, erecto-falcate, green on the face mottled with spots 

 of darker green, entirely tinged with dark purple towards the base, 

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

 prickles minute. Flowers in a dense central head hidden by the 

 base of the leaves, the reduced inner leaves scarcely changed in 

 colour. Sepals lanceolate, brown. Corolla-segments ovate, white, 

 protruded f in. beyond the tip of the calyx. 



Hab. Country unknown. Described from Professor Morren's drawing, 

 made in Sept., 1885. 



18. K. CHLOROSTICTA Baker. Nidularium chlorostictum E. 

 Morren (M.D.). Billhergia chlorosticta Hort. — Habit of a Bill- 

 hergia. Leaves 12-20 in a long utricular rosette, lorate, the blade 

 exclusive of the large dilated base |— 1 ft. long, an inch broad, firm 

 in texture, reddish brown, with copious green spots, rounded to a 

 cusp at the tip, the marginal prickles minute. Flowers few in a 

 head at the top of the utriculus of leaves. Sepals tinged with red. 

 Petals protruded ^ in. beyond the tip of the calyx. 



Hab. Probably Brazil. Described from Prof. Morren's drawing, made in 

 1884, and a living plant at Kew, which has not yet flowered. 



19. K. AMPULLACEA Baker. Nididarium ampidlaceimi E. Morren, 

 Belg. Hort. 1880, 242 (M.D.) ; Eegel, Gartenfl. 1886, 296, fig. 33. 

 — Leaves about 8 in a rosette, their bases forming an oblong 

 utriculus 2 in. long, from the top of which the lorate blade 

 spreads to a length of 4-6 in., under an inch broad, firm in 

 texture, green on the face, banded transversely with spots of 

 reddish brown, especially on the back, rounded at the tip to a small 

 cusp, the marginal prickles minute. Flowers few, arranged in a 

 central head just emerging from the utriculus of leaves. Ovary ^ in. 

 long ; sepals green, lanceolate, -J in. long. Petals violet, nearly 

 twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 12231 ! Introduced into cultivation about 

 1880, by Glaziou and Binot. Very distinct. 



20. K. Laurentii Antoine, Brom. 48, t. 28. Nididarium 

 Laurentii Kegel, Gartenfl. t. 529 (M.D.). Billhergia aurantiaca 

 Hort. — Leaves 10-12 in a short rosette, lorate, 1-1| ft. long, 

 2-2f in. broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, plain 

 green on both sides, thinly lepidote beneath, rounded to a cusp at 

 the tip, the marginal prickles minute, black. Flowers in a globose 

 head in the centre of the reduced inner leaves, which are some- 

 times, but not always, tinged with purple ; flower-bracts narrow, 

 green, scariose. Ovary white, half as long as the green lanceolate 



