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face, thinly white-lepidote on the back, narrowed gradually to 

 the point, the marginal prickles close, large, blackish, ascending. 

 Peduncle stout, stiffly erect, floccose, ^ in. diam. at the top ; lower 

 bract-leaves green, upper red. Head of flowers globose, under an inch 

 in diam. ; axis densely cottony ; flower-bracts small, rigid, ovate, 

 emarginate. Flowers under an inch long. Ovary globose ; sepals 

 ovate, minutely mucronate. Petals shortly protruded, bright 

 yellow, soon changing to brown-black. 



Hab. South Brazil. Introduced into cultivation lately by Dr. Glaziou. 

 Flowered by Dr. Regel at St. Petersburg in 1886. May be an extreme form of 

 yE. hromelicefolia. 



122. M. MACRONEOTTiA Baker. — Leaves not seen. Peduncle 

 2-3 ft. long, with many large, scariose bract-leaves. Inflorescence 

 a dense oblong spike 4-5 in. long, 1^ in. diam. ; flower-bracts 

 white-lepidote, forming a globose nest ^ in. broad and deep. 

 Ovary globose ; sepals obtuse, not mucronate, f in. long. Petals 

 not seen. 



Hab. Central Brazil ; between Goyaz and Cuyaba, Weddell ! (Herb. Paris). 



Subgenus 11. Canistrum (E. Morren). 



123. M. AURANTiACA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 235. Cam'strum, 

 auraritiacum E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1873, 257, t. 15 (M.D.). 

 Cryptanthus clavatus Hort. — Leaves about 20 in a short rosette, 

 recurving from low down, lorate from an ovate base, 1|~2 ft. long, 

 2-2? in. broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, green on 

 both surfaces, faintly spotted with darker green when young, 

 rounded to a cusp at the apex, the marginal teeth close and small, 

 lanceolate, l-12th in. long towards the base of the blade. Peduncle 

 erect, above a foot long, hidden by the adpressed imbricated 

 greenish scariose bract-leaves. Flowers 50-100 in a dense globose 

 capitulum 2 in. diam., surrounded but not overtopped by ovate 

 acute entire erect adpressed bract-leaves, which are about 2 in. 

 long, the outer greenish, the inner bright red. Flower lf-2 in. 

 long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, cuspidate, as long as the ovary. 

 Petals Ungulate, orange-yellow, ^ in. longer than the calyx. 



Hab. Pernambuco, Ridley d; Ramage ! Flowered by Professor Morren at 

 Li^ge in July, 1867. Described from a plant at Kew and the drawings of Prof. 

 Morren and Mr. Eamage. Introduced into cultivation by Porte. 



124. M. ROSEA Baker. Canistrum roseum E. Morren in Belg. 

 Hort. 1879, 301, 1883, 195. t. 14, 15 (M.D.).— Leaves about 20 in a 

 short open rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 1^-2 ft. long, 2-|— Sin. 

 broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, plain green 

 mottled with darker green, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the mar- 

 ginal teeth minute. Peduncle erect, 6-8 in. long; bract-leaves 

 scariose, pink. Inflorescence a globose capitulum 2-3 in. diam., 

 surrounded and overtopped by a whorl of ovate pink falcate 

 serrated bract-leaves 3-4 in. long. Flower l^-lf in. long. Sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, as long as the clavate ovary, both white 

 and farinose. Petals pale green, shortly protruded. 



