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4. C. NEOGRANATENsis Baker. — Leaf thin, lanceolate, entire, acute, 

 naked on the face, an inch broad. Peduncle slender ; bract-leaves 

 many, small, lanceolate, scariose. Inflorescence a narrow panicle 

 half a foot long, with many ascending subsecund moderately dense 

 racemose branches ; pedicels very short ; flower-bracts ovate, acute, 

 ^ in. long. Sepals oblong-, obtuse, -^^ in. long. Petals oblong, 

 twice as long as the calyx. - Stamens shorter than the petals. 



• Hab. New Granada, Jurgen^en 389 1 Very near C. WeddelUana. 



5. C. Weddelliana Brong. inedit. — Acaulescent. Leaves few, 

 thin, lanceolate, entire, a foot long, 1-1|- in. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed to a dilated base, acute, thinly lepidote. Peduncle 

 l-l|-ft. long; bract-leaves small, membranous, ascending. Inflor- 

 escence a lax panicle a foot long^ with secund simple or slightly 

 compound branches ; pedicels yV~8 i^* lo^g> articulated at the 

 apex ; bracts ovate, minute. Sepals oblong, ^V i^- loiig- Petals 

 white, oblanceolate, twice as long as the sepals. Stamens shorter 

 than the petals. Capsule oblong, ^ in. long ; style as long as the 

 capsule. 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia; Yungas, 4000-8000 ft., Weddell 42331 Rusby 

 2541 ! 



6. C. guianensis Klotzscli in Herb. Berol. Anoplophytum 

 guianense Beer Brom. 44. — Leaves linear-subulate, stiffly erect, 

 under a foot long, ^ in. broad at the base, the entire edges rolled 

 together, the face deeply channelled all the way down, the convex 

 back thinly lepidote. Peduncle above a foot long ; upper bract- 

 leaves distant, minute. Inflorescence a lax panicle ^ ft. long, with 

 several ascending branches ; pedicels -^-^ in. long ; flower-bracts 

 minute. Sepals oblong, obtuse, ^ in. long. Petals Ungulate, 

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



Hab. British Guiana ; banks of the Corentyn Eiver, Schomburgk 1564 ! 

 Gathered in 1843. Has nothing whatever to do with Tillandsia parvifolia 

 E. & P., to which it was referred by Dr. Karl Koch. 



25. Dyckia Schultes Jil. (including Encholirion). 



. Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals ovate or oblong, rigid, free to 

 the base. Petals distinct or obscurely connate at the base, usually 

 lingulate-unguiculate, not scaled at the base, spreading above the 

 calyx. Stameiishji^ogyiious or 3 adnate to the base of the petals; 

 filaments usually thick and rather flattened ; anthers linear, 

 attached on the back near the base. Ovary superior, ovoid- 

 pyramidal, 3 -celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style generally 

 short ; stigmas linear, slightly twisted. Fruit a hard 3-angled 

 capsule split down to the basB into three septicidal valves. Seeds 

 oblong, compressed, with a horny wing. — Leaves rosulate, ensiform, 

 very thick and rigid, margined with pungent spines. Pedimcle 

 arcuate, produced from the axil of one of the outer leaves of the 

 basal rosette. Injiurescence spicate, racemose or panicled. Flowers 

 usually bright yellow. 



