DYCKIA. 183 



Petals reddish-yellow, half as long again as the calyx. Stamens as 

 long as the petals. 



Hab. Central Brazil ; province of Goyaz, on dry hills at Arrayas, Gardner 

 4015 ! Gathered in 18i0. 



12. D. LEPTOSTACHYA Baker in Gard. Cliron. 1884, ii. 198. — 

 Leaves about 15 in a rosette, ensiform, falcate, 1-li ft. long, 

 1-1:|- in. broad above the ovate base, narrowed gradually to a long 

 acuminate point, deeply channelled in the upper half, bright green 

 and glabrous on the face, white-lepidote and lineate on the back ; 

 marginal prickles distant, brown, lanceolate, hooked, at most 

 ^-^ in. long. Peduncle slender, stiffly erect, 3 ft. long ; bract- 

 leaves small, distant, ovate, adpressed. Inflorescence a lax erect 

 spike 6-9 in. long; rachis sligh ly pubescent; flowers sessile, 

 erecto-patent ; flower-bracts ovate, |— ^ in. long. Sepals ovate, 

 obtuse, imbricated, ^ in. long. Petals obovate-unguiculate, f in. 

 long, bright orange with a tinge of red. Stamens just protruded 

 beyond the tip of the petals. 



Hab. Parana. Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, Aug., 1884, 

 received in 1867. Burchell's 6791 and two other numbers collected in the 

 province of Goyaz in 1828 are the same or a close ally. 



13. D. TRicHosTACHYA Baker. — Leaves rigid, ensiform, a foot 

 long, an inch broad at the base of the blade ; marginal spines 

 minute. Peduncle stout, 1^-2 ft. long. Inflorescence a simple 

 spike a foot long, with a stout pubescent rachis ; lower flower-bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, an inch long ; upper ovate, ^-^ in. Sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, I in. long. Petals little longer than the sepals. 

 Style short. 



Hab. South Brazil, Sello 59 ! (Herb. Paris). 



14. D. Glaziovii Baker. — Root-leaves not seen. Peduncle 

 flexuose, 1^-2 ft. long, its two lower leaves springing from it 6 and 

 4 in. from the base, linear-complicate, very rigid in texture, taper- 

 ing to a point, the lowest 3-4 ft. long, armed in the lower part with 

 small hooked brown spines ; upper stem-leaves lanceolate, erect, 

 scariose. Inflorescence a dense simple raceme a foot long ; pedicels 

 erecto-patent, the lower ^ in. long; flower-bracts ovate, ^-J in. ■ 

 long. Sepals obtuse, i in. long. Petals shortly protruded. 



Hab. Brazil, Glaziou 15671 ! 



15. D. MicRocALYx Baker. — Leaves rigid, ensiform, about a foot 

 long, under an inch broad at the base of the blade ; marginal prickles 

 large, hooked. Peduncle 1|- ft. long. Inflorescence a panicle 

 under a foot long, with 5-6 densely spicate branches, 2-4 in. long ; 

 flower-bracts small, ovate. Sepals oblong, ^ in. long. Petals 

 more than twice as long as the sepals. Capsule-valves castaneous, 

 ^-\ in. long. Style short. 



Hab. Paraguay, Balansa, 096 ! 



16. D. AFFiNis Baker. — Leaves rigid, ensiform, 2 ft. long, an 

 inch broad at the base of the blade ; prickles large. Inflorescence 

 a panicle with a simple lax end-spike a foot long and several 

 shorter ascending branches ; flower-bracts small, oyate. Sepals 



