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Subgenus Schlumbergeeia. — Corolla longer than the calyx. 

 Filaments and corolla-segments longer than in Caraquata proper, 



Sp. 29-38. 

 Doubtful species Sp. 39. 



1. C. LiNGULATA Lindl. in Bot. Keg. sub. t. 1068; Morren 

 Fuchsia, t. 4 ; Kern. Hort. Semper, t. 274 (M.D.). — C. latifolia 

 Beer. Tillaudsia liiK/ulata Lam. ; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. t. 62 (Plumier 

 Bot. Amer. t. 62, 73^74 ; Sloane Hist. Jam. 1. 120).— Leaves 30-40, 

 thin, lanceolate, 1-1^ ft. long, 1-1-1 in. broad at the middle, 2-3 in. 

 at the dilated base, hardly at all lepidote, usually striped vertically 

 with red-brown on the back. Peduncle ^-1 ft. long ; bract-leaves 

 imbricated, upper bright red. Liflorescence dense, globose, 

 overtopped by the bright-red falcate outer bracts; flower-bracts 

 obtuse, l|-2 in. long. Calyx under an inch long ; segments 

 lanceolate, not imbricated. Corolla yellowish-white, l-|-2 in. 

 long ; segments short, oblong, obtuse. 



Hab. West Indies, Guiana, Columbia and Ecuador. G. latifolia Beer, is 

 founded on Plumier's tab. 74 ; C. splendens Bouche, figured Flore des Serres, t. 

 1091 and Otto Gartenzeit. 1856, t. 4, and C.cardinalis, Andre in 111. Hort. 1880, 

 t. 674 and Eev, Hort. 1883, 12, are forms with larger, more brightly coloured 

 outer bracts than the type ; and C. virens Brong., a form with green outer 

 bracts. 



2. C. PALusTRis Wittm. in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 58. — Leaves spread 

 over a short produced stem, ovate-lanceolate, 6-8 in. long, 2 in. 

 broad at the base, narrowed gradually to the point, thinly lepidote. 

 Peduncle as long as the leaves. Inflorescence a globose capitulum 

 surrounded by ovate imbricated bracts. Calyx | in. long ; sepals 

 oblong. Corolla lemon -yellow ; tube as long as the calyx ; seg- 

 ments oblong, |- in. long. Filaments very short. 



Hab. Andes of Southern Columbia, alt. 11000 ft., in marshes, Lehmann, 

 537! 



8. C. sANGuiNEA Andre in Kev. Hort. 1883, 468, with figure; 

 Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6765. — Leaves 20-30 in a dense rosette, 

 lanceolate, the outer a foot long, l-|-2 in. broad at the middle, thin, 

 but little dilated at the base, obscurely lepidote on both surfaces, 

 strongly tinged with bright red. Flowers in a sessile central 

 capitulum, each with a short pedicel, subtended by an oblong 

 obtuse membranous bract shorter than the calyx-tube. Calyx 

 f-f in. long ; segments oblong, obtuse. Corolla yellowish-white, 

 2^-3 in. long ; tube slender ; segments small, oblong, obtuse. 

 Stamens half as long as the corolla- segments ; filaments very short. 



Hab. Western Andes of Ncav Granada, Andre 3369. Discovered by M. Andre 

 in 1876, and introduced by him into cultivation. Described from a plant that 

 flowered at Kew, Nov. 1883. Var. erecta Andre, is a robust variety with a stalked 

 head of flowers. 



4. C. OsYANA E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1885, 254, t. 16, 17. 

 C. magnifica Hort. — Acaulescent. Leaves about 30 in a rosette, 

 lanceolate, pale green, above afoot long, If in. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed gradually to the point. Peduncle very short. Flowers 

 in a dense globose head 3-4 in. diam. ; bracts ovate, squarrose, 

 scarlet, the outer l|^-2 in. long. Calyx- segments oblong, obtuse, 



