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166. T. iNcoNSPicuA Andre, Enum. 8. — Radical leaves flexible, 

 glabrous, lorate-cuspidate, 3 ft. long, 3 in. broad. Peduncle robust, 

 4-6 ft. long, clothed with whitish scales ; bract-leaves green or red. 

 Panicle lax, distichous, 2 ft. long, consisting of about 20 simple 

 spikes, the lower 4 in. long ; branch-bracts ovate, the lower above 

 an inch long ; spikes 15-flowered, moderately lax, with a very scaly 

 flexuose rachis ; flower-bracts ovate, acute, above J in. long. 

 Sepals obtuse, lepidote, shorter than the bracts. Corolla not seen. 



Hab. Andes of Ecuador, at Niebh, Andre 3795. 



Subgenus 6. Anoplophytum (Beer). 



167. T. RUPicoLA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1888, 13. — Leaves 

 30-40, crowded on a stem an inch long, subulate from an ovate 

 base, 2 in. long, ^^ i^- broad above the dilated base, densely clothed 

 all over with large spreading glittering linear scales. Peduncle 

 about as long as the leaves ; bract-leaves crowded, with long 

 subulate points. Flowers 8-12 in a dense subglobose multifarious 

 head ^-f in. long; flower-bracts ovate-acuminate, rigid, stra- 

 mineous, j~^ in. long. Calyx glabrous, I in. long ; sepals acute. 

 Petal-blade oblong, lilac. 



Hab. Andes of Ecuador, alt. 8000 ft., Col. Hall I Allied to T. plumosa. 



168. T. PLUMOSA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1888, 13. — Leaves densely 

 rosulate, subulate from an ovate base ^ in. diam., 3-4 in. long, 

 Jg in. diam. low down, densely beset with spreading hair-pointed 

 scales. Peduncle shorter than the leaves ; bract-leaves crowded, 

 long-pointed. Inflorescence a dense capitulum f in, long and 

 broad; flower-bracts ovate-cuspidate, J in. long. Calyx as long as 

 the bract, flattened on the side nearest the axis ; sepals acute. 

 Petals not seen. 



Hab. Mexico ; province of Puebla, on trees, Andrieux 57 ! Connects the 

 sections Anoplophytum and Pityrophyllum. 



169. T. FuNCKiANA Baker. — Leafy stem produced to a length of 

 5-6 in., densely beset with rigid linear-subulate ascending leaves 

 1^ in. long, Y^g in. broad above the dilated base, densely laxly 

 lepidote all over. Peduncle very short. Spike laxly 2-3-flowered; 

 flower-bracts oblong-lanceolate, bright red, -J in. long. Calyx as 

 long as the flower-bract ; sepals red, acute. Petals white, half as 

 long again as the calyx. 



Hab. Mountains of Venezuela, Funck d- Schlim 1258 ! Nearly allied to T. 

 pulchra. Anoplophytum brachypodium E. Morren (M.D.) is a nearly allied form 

 from Brazil. 



170. T. PULCHKA Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 154 ; Wawra, Itin. Prin, 

 Sax. Cob. 173, t. 34. T. piilcheUa Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5229. T. 

 pityphylla Mart. Anoplophytum piilcheUum Beer. — Leafy stem some- 

 times short, sometimes produced to the length of half a foot. Leaves 

 densely crowded, ascending, linear-subulate, 3-4 in. long, ^ in. 

 broad low down, channelled down the lower part of the face, 

 narrowed into a long slender point, finely lepidote all over. Peduncle 



