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tips. Panicle rhomboid, 3 ft. long ; branches laxly-flowered, 

 erecto-patent, ascending, the lower 1^-2 ft. long, sterile in the 

 lower third ; branch-bracts small, ovate ; flower-bracts ovate, 

 1^-1|- in. long. Calyx green, ^ in. longer than the bract. Petal- 

 blade lanceolate, whitish, as long as the ealyx. Stamens as long 

 as the petals. 



Hab. Chiriqui, imported by Van Houtte in 1879. Flowered in 1885. 

 Near T. reghia. 



803. T. GKANDis Schlecht. in Linn^ea xvii. 424. — Leaves lorate 

 from a dilated base 3 in. broad, 1^-2 ft. long, 2 m. broad at the 

 middle, thin, flexible, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex. Inflorescence 

 an ample panicle ; lower branches If ft. long, the lowest half-foot 

 sterile ; flowers ^-1 in. apart ; flower-bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 1-| ft. long, an inch broad. Calyx just exceeding the bract ; sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, above ^ in. broad. Petals not seen. Capsule 

 oblong, 2 in. long. 



Hab. Mexico ; Hacienda do la Laguna, Schiede dt Beppe (Herb. Mus. 

 Berol.). Nearly allied to T. regina. There is, a closely allied plant in the 

 Morren drawings, without name or locality, with shorter denser spikes and 

 lanceolate wliite petals three inches longer than the calyx. 



304. T. REGINA Veil. Fl. Flum. iii, t. 142. Vriesea regina Beer ; 

 Wawra Itin. Prin. Sax. Gob. 163, t. 36 a; Gard. Chron. 1875, 

 fig. 41 ; Antoine Brom. t. 9-10 (M.D.). V, gigantea Lemaire in 

 111. Hort. t, 516. V. Glazioviana Lemaire. V, geniculata Wawra 

 Reise Kais. Max. 159, t. 25. F. imperialis and HiUegeeriana Hort. 

 — Whole plant reaching a height of 8-10 feet. Leaves 30-50, 

 densely rosulate, lorate from an ovate base 6-9 in. broad, 3-4 ft. long, 

 3-4 in. broad at the middle, narrowed to the point, thin, flexible, 

 subglabrous, pale green with a glaucous bloom. Peduncle over- 

 topping the leaves ; bract-leaves crowded, with ovate-lanceolate 

 spreading tips. Panicle deltoid, 4-5 ft. long ; branches many, 

 lower 1-lf ft. long, spreading or ascending ; branch-bracts green, 

 ovate-cuspidate, lower 6-9 in. long ; flower-bracts green, ovate, 

 1-1^ in. long. Calyx l-|-2 in. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse. 

 Petal-blade lanceolate, white, reaching a length of 2-3 in. Stamens 

 as long as the petals. Capsule oblong, 1^-2 in. long. 



Hab. South Brazil ; forests of Rio Janeiro and St. Paulo. Collected by 

 Burchell in 1826 and introduced into cultivation by Linden in 1868. This is 

 the giant of the genus. It is the type of Morren's subgenus Alcantarcea, named 

 after the Emperor of Brazil, characterised by its long narrow petal-blade and 

 long stamens. V. gigantea Lemaire, is a form with shorter deflexed branches 

 than in the type and more crowded flowers. V. gigantea Gaudich. Atlas, Bonite 

 t. 70, from Santa Catherina, seems to be a starved variety of the same species 

 with calyx only an inch long. ^Another very large species, 9 — 12 ft. high, 

 with a very ample laxly bipinnate panicle, gathered by Eoezl in New Granada 

 in the province of Cauca, is mentioned in Haage and Schmidt's catalogue in 

 1872, under the name of T. gigantea. 



305. T. PANicuLATA Limi. Sp. Plant. 410 (Plum. Ic. t. 237). — 

 Habit of T. regina, alia and grandis. Leaves large, lanceolate, 

 densely rosulate. Panicle very large, with spreading branches and 

 short secund laxly-flowered ascending branchlets ; flower-bracts 

 oblong, acute, shorter than the calyx. Calyx 2 in. long; sepals 



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