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9. Q. COLUMBIANA Baker. Bonnhenjia columhiana E. Morren in 

 Belg. Hort. 1885, 82. Leaves about a dozen in a rosette, their 

 bases connivent for 6-8 inches, lorate, arcuate, 1^-2 ft. long, 

 l'|~2 in. broad at the middle, firm in texture, plaui green on the 

 face, brown on the back, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the marginal 

 prickles close and minute. Peduncle under a foot long, hidden by 

 the connivent bases of the leaves. Spike few-flowered, lax, simple, 

 erect, 2-3 in. long ; flower-bracts small, ovate. Calyx including 

 the ovary f in. long ; segments short, ovate. Petals violet, twice 

 as long as the calyx, spreading only at the tip. Stamens inserted 

 high up the petals. 



Hab. Columbia. Introduced by Mr. W. Bull, who first flowered it Mar., 1882, 



10. Q. AuGusTO-CoBURGi Wawra Itin. Prin. Sax. Cob. 158, t. 

 28, 35 B. — Produced leaves only 3-4 in a rosette, lorate, 2 ft. long, 

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

 green on the face, thinly white-lepidote on the back, not trans- 

 versely banded, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the marginal spines 

 minute. Peduncle very slender, longer than the leaves ; bract- 

 leaves lanceolate, erect, pale, scariose. Inflorescence a dense spike 

 a span long ; flow^ers spreading horizontally, sessile, each sub- 

 tended at the base by a lanceolate acummate scariose bract nearly 

 as long as the calyx. Ovary small, green, subglobose ; sepals 

 lanceolate-acuminate, bright red, above an inch long. Petals 

 oblanceolate-unguiculate, bright violet, half as long again as the 

 sepals. Stamens a little shorter than the petals, 3 attached to the 

 top of the claw. Style reaching to the tip of the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil ; woods of Juiz de fora, Wawra ii. 185, 196. This does 

 not agree well with Quesnelia or any other recognised genus. 



11. Q. Selloana Baker. — Leaves linear, entire, moderately firm 

 in texture, 12-15 in. long, |- in. broad at the middle, naked on the 

 face, slightly brown-furfuraceous on the back, especially towards 

 the base. Peduncle much shorter than leaves ; bract-leaves lan- 

 ceolate, similar to the proper leaves in texture. Inflorescence a 

 dense compound globose capitulum l-l-J in. diam. ; branch-bracts 

 ovate, chartaceous, entire, the upper f in., the lower l-l^- in. long, 

 subtending each a few crowded flowers ; final bracts ovate, scariose, 

 ^-|-in. long. Calyxwith ovary fin. long ; ovary small, oblong, naked ; 

 sepals lanceolate, acute. Petals violet, half as long again as the 

 sepals. Stamens much shorter than the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil, Sello 1414 ! (Hort. BeroL). 



12. Q. Glaziovii Baker. — Leaves with a dilated oblong base 

 3-4 in. long, 2 in. broad ; blade thin, lorate, subglabrous, narrowed 

 to the point, a foot long, an inch broad, with only a few prickles 

 towards the base. Peduncle a foot long ; bract-leaves many, 

 scariose, adpressed, imbricated. Inflorescence a moderately dense 

 panicle 2-3 in. long : branches few-flowered, lower an inch long ; 

 branch-bracts ovate, lower an inch long ; flower-bracts small, 

 scariose, obtuse. Calyx with ovary ^ in. long; sepals ovate, as 

 long as the ovary. Petal-blade oblong, ^ in. long. Stamens shorter 

 than the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 16418 ! 



