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dilated base, above 2 in. at the middle. Inflorescence a narrow 

 panicle 1^ ft. long, composed of above a dozen spaced-out sessile 

 dense oblong non-distichons spikes 1|- in. long ; branch-bracts 

 ovate, acute, red, an inch long ; flower-bracts oblong, f in. long. 

 Sepals as long as the flower-bract. Corolla yellow, an inch long, 

 with a tube as long as the calyx. Stamens shorter than the 

 corolla-segments. 



Hab. Andes of Pasto, alt. 10,000 ft., Lehmann CG7 I Like C. pendulijlora 

 on a reduced scale. 



32. C. PENDULiFLORA Wittm. in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 59. Tilhmdsia 

 penduUflora Griseb. Fl. Brit. West Ind. 597. — Whole plant 7-8 ft. 

 high. Leaves lorate, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, 2-3 ft. long, 

 2 in. broad at the middle. Inflorescence a huge j>anicle, probably 

 4-5 ft. high, the lower branches of which are a foot or more long; 

 spikes dense, deflexed, multifarious, subsessile ; flower-bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, 1-1 J in. long. Calyx 1^ in. long; segments lanceolate. 

 Corolla with a narrowly funnel-shaped tube | in. long ; segments 

 not seen. 



Hab. Dominica, Imray 107 ! Eamage I Martinique, Hahn 616 1 



33. C. Lehmanniana Baker. ScJdumhergeria Lehmannlana 

 Wittm. in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 60. — Leaves lorate, l|-2 ft. long, 

 11-2 in. broad at the middle, from a large dilated oblong base, 

 obscurely lepidote. Peduncle a foot long ; bract-leaves adpressed, 

 imbricated. Panicle lax, 6-8 in. long, with several short arcuate 

 ascending branches, at most 2 in. long ; branch-bracts small, ovate ; 

 flower-bracts ovate, much shorter than the calyx. Calyx above an 

 inch long ; segments lanceolate. Corolla-tube cylindrical, rather 

 longer than the calyx; segments narrow, nearly an inch long. 

 Filaments above -^ in. long, twice as long as the anthers. 



Hab. New Granada ; province of Cauca, alt. 7000 ft., Lehmann 3629 1 



34. C. ANDREANAE.MorreninEev.Hort. 1884, 247, with woodcut; 

 1886, 276, with coloured figure (M.D.) ; Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 7014. 

 — Acaulescent. Leaves about 20 in a rosette, lanceolate, pliable, 

 plain green, lJ-2 ft. long, IJ—l^ in. broad at the middle, lepidote. 

 Peduncle 1-1^ ft. long ; bract-leaves green, lanceolate, adpressed. 

 Inflorescence a panicle under a foot long, with a bright red rachis 

 and a few flowers crowded in the axis of each of the spreading red- 

 gTeen bracts, which are 1^-2 in. long. Calyx green, 1^ in. long ; 

 sepals lanceolate. Corolla yellow ; tube as long as the calyx : 

 segments lingulate, an inch long, rolling up spirally. Filaments 

 much longer than the anthers. 



Hab. New Granada; Cordillera of Pasto, alt. 11,000 ft., discovered by M. 

 Andre in 1876. Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, March, 1888. 



35. C. STRAMiNEA Baker. Anoplophytum vittatum Beer, Brom. 43. 

 A. stramineum K. Koch. — Leaves densely rosulate, lanceolate, from 

 an ovate base, IJ ft. long, more than an inch broad at the middle, 

 narrowed gradually to the point. Peduncle with inflorescence 2 ft. 

 long. Inflorescence a panicle composed of several short dense 

 spreading multifarious spikes ; lower branch-bracts lanceolate from 



