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86. M. MULTicEPs Baker in Journ. Bot 1880, 49. — Leaves with 

 a lorate lamina, 3-4 ft. long, 2^-3 in. broad at the middle, mode- 

 rately firm in texture, plain green on the face, thinly white- 

 lepidote not banded on the back, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the 

 marginal prickles very minute. Inflorescence a bipiunate panicle 

 with a stout loosely pubescent flexuose rachis, the lower branches 

 spreading horizontally, subtended by short scariose adpressed lan- 

 ceolate bract-leaves, the flowers of each branch clustered into 

 10-12 globose distichous sessile heads i-| in. diam., containing 

 each 6-8 flowers, the upper heads of the branch aggregated, the 

 lower with a space between them ; flower-bracts cordate-orbicular, 

 coriaceous, minutely cuspidate, ^ in. long. Calyx with ovary i in. 

 long ; sepals deltoid, shorter than the ovary, minutely cuspidate. 

 Petals protruded l-12th in., spirally twisted. 



Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 11681 ! A very distinct species. 



Subgenus 7. Pectinaria Benth. 



87. M, FASCiATA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 231. Billbergla 

 fasciata Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. t. 1130. Hoplophytiiin fusciatitm Beer, 

 Brom. 129. Hohenhergia fasciata Schultes fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1253. 

 Allchnea Leopoldii Hort. Billbergla rhodocganea Lemaire in Flore 

 des Serres, t. 207; Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4883 (M.D.). — Leaves 

 about 20 in a rosette, lorate from an ovate base, lf-2 ft. long, 

 2-2^ in. broad at the middle, green with abundant white spots and 

 a few transverse bands of white on the back, deltoid-cuspidate at 

 the tip, the marginal prickles small, brown-tipped. Peduncle erect, 

 floccose, a foot long, the upper bract-leaves bright red, sharply 

 serrated. Liflorescence a dense erect simple rarely 2-3-nate 

 oblong capitulum 2-4 in. long ; flower-bracts bright pink, ascend- 

 ing, imbricated, ovate-lanceolate with a pungent tip, conspicuously 

 toothed, the lower 1^ in. long, the upper much shorter. Ovary 

 with calyx J- f in. long ; sepals ovate, as long as the ovary, obtuse. 

 Petals red, fading to blue, f-1 in. long. 



Hab. Woods of South Brazil, Sella 94! Miers 1759! Glaziou 11686! 

 Introduced into cultivation in 1826. Described from plants that flowered at 

 Kew, Oct., 1878 and June, 1886. I find it was labelled yEchmea fasciata by 

 Brongniart in the Paris Herbarium in 1864. Tillandsia bracteata Veil. Fl. Flum. 

 iii. t. 125, is probably a synonym. 



88. M. DEALBATA E. Morreu in herb. Kew. Hoplophgtum deal- 

 batum E. Morren, inedit. (M.D.). — Stoloniferous. Leaves few in a 

 utricular rosette, lorate, above 2 ft. long, 1^-2 in. broad, horny in 

 texture, plain green and channelled down the face, tinged with 

 brown and copiously banded with white on the back, deltoid- 

 cuspidate at the tip, the marginal prickles minute. Peduncle 

 slender, erect, above a foot long ; bract-leaves adpressed, lanceolate, 

 imbricated, farinose, the upper serrated. Liflorescence a dense 

 simple or 2-3-nate erect oblong spike 3-4 in. long ; flower-bracts 

 ascending, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrated, brownish, per- 

 sistently white-farinose, 1-1-J in. long. Calyx with ovary k in. 



