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as long as the ovary. Petals violet or wliite, turning brown-blaclc, 

 twice as long as the sepals. Stamens ^ in. shorter than the petals. 

 Hab. South Brazil ; in the neighbourhood of Eio Janeiro, Gandichand 

 3701 Hombwnl Bxirchell 3151! Ticeediel Miers 3847! Glaziou 4262! 15840! 

 Introduced into cultivation about 1867. Described from a plant flowered by Sir 

 G. Macleay, Feb., 1888. 



2. Q. cAYENNENSis Baker. Q. rufa E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 

 1882, 115, tab. 4-6 (M.D.) non Gaudich. BiUheniia Qucsneliana 

 Brong. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xv. 372 ; Planch, in Flore des 

 Serres t. 1028; Kegel Gartenfl. 1875, 195, t. 834, 836. —Leafy 

 stem much produced, reaching sometimes a length of 6-8 ft., simple 

 or forked. Leaves lanceolate from an ovate base, 2-3 ft. long, 

 1^2 in. broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, plain 

 green on the concave face, banded transversely with white on the 

 back, narrowed gradually to the point, armed with close erecto- 

 patent lanceolate marginal spines ^-^ in. long. Peduncle erect, 

 much shorter than the leaves ; stem-leaves pale, scariose, ad- 

 pressed, much imbricated. Inflorescence a dense strobiliform spike 

 6-8 in. long, 2 in. diam. ; flower-bracts oblong, obtuse, bright red, 

 with a pale plicate scariose margin, the lower 1^-2 in. long. 

 Ovary oblong, ^ in. long ; sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, tinged with 

 red, "I in. long. Petals blue-violet, twice as long as the sepals. 

 Stamens rather shorter than the petals. 



Hab. French Guiana. Introduced into cultivation by Quesnel in 1841. 

 Described mainly from Brongniart's type-specimen in the Paris Herbarium. 

 Very near Q. rufa. 



3. Q. Lamarckii Baker. — Leaves unknown. Inflorescence a 

 dense oblong-cylindrical strobiliform spike a foot long, 4 in. diam. ; 

 flower-bracts oblong, obtuse, 2-3 in. long. Mature ovary clavate- 

 trigonous, 1-1^ in. long ; sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, f-l in. long, 

 free down to the ovary. Petals not seen. 



Hab. Probably Guiana. Described from a specimen from Lamarck, in the 

 Smithian Herbarium at the Linnean Society, marked "■ Bromella, No. 41." 

 Allied to Q. rufa and cayennens:s. 



4. Q. Bakeri Andre Enum. 4. — Leaves and peduncle unknown. 

 Inflorescence a dense cylindrical spike 5-6 in. long, 2-|- in. diam. ; 

 bracts acute, dark violet, 2 in. long, 1 in. broad, transversely 

 plicate, covered, like the calyx, with dense ferruginous tomentum ; 

 flowers sessile in their axils. Ovary ^ in. long ; sepals ovate, 

 emarginate at the tip, three times the length of the ovary. Petals 

 orange-red, obtuse, glabrescent, 3 in. long, ^ in. broad. Alternate 

 stamens inserted near the base of the petals : anthers linear, ^ in. 

 long. 



Hab. Damp virgin forests of the western declivity of the Andes of Southern 

 Columbia, near San Pablo, alt. 4000 ft., Andre 3391, bis. 



5. Q. Van Houtteana E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1881, t. 18 

 (M.D.). Echliiostachys Van Idoutteana Van Houtte Cat. 18^78. 

 — Leaves about 30 in a short rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 

 2 ft. long, 1^-2 in. broad at the middle, 3-4 in. at the dilated base, 

 firm in texture, green on both sides, not transversely banded on 

 the back, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the close ascending brown 



