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MEMOIRS or THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



more long, 2 cm. broad, ohlanceolate, acuminate, but obtuse, en- 

 tire, glabrous, tliickisli, about 40-nerved. Scape about 6 dm. 

 high, nearly 1 cm. thick at the base, regularly narrowed upward, 

 terete, apparently hollow. Outer bracts 5 or 6 cm. long, slightly 

 imbricate at the base, from which they taper regularly to the 

 acute summit, thin and membranaceous, many-nerved, spread- 

 ing and at length reflexed. Inner bracts erect, narrower and 

 shorter. Pedicels rather slender, straight or nearly so, about 2 

 cm. long, in flower. Ovary nearly 1 cm. long, oval or slightly 

 obovoid, slightly triquetrous, 6-nerved. Longest sepal 8 or 9 

 cm. long, 6 or 7 mm. wide at the base, from which it tapers regu- 

 larly to the summit, red with a deeper-colored broad middle por- 

 tion, the others slightly shorter. Petals similar but narrower 

 and more attenuate. Anthers 3 mm. long. Style and stigma 

 1 cm. longer than the longest petal, the stigma 8 mm. long, white 

 and hyaline. Capsule, immature but dehiscing under pressure, 

 1 cm. long and nearly as broad. 



Espia, 3,500 feet, H. H. RksIji, August 8, 1921 {no. 150, the 

 type). Growing on steep rocky banks in partial shade. Very 

 showy. 



The same collected Avithout bulb or leaves, by M. Bang at 

 Songo, November, 1890 {no. 918). Buchtien's No. 3155, from 

 Cotanya, Ilimani, 2,450 meters, November, 1911 {no. 3144), has 

 larger flowers, with shorter pedicels, but is probably the same. 



Bomarea petiolata 



Lower leaf-surfaces and inflorescence lightly puberulent. 

 Stems elongate, slender, reclining or drooping, strongly sulcate 

 in the dried state. Petioles 1 cm. long, thinly margined, the 

 blades 4 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, lance-oblong, the base very 

 abruptly contracted into the petiole, acuminate and acute, the 

 principal nerves 7 to 9, with as many finer intermediate ones. 

 Umliel terminal, compound, 4-branched, in my specimens, the 

 branches 2- to 3-flowered, the liracts lanceolate, 2 cm. long, ab- 

 ruptly contracted into an attenuate point. Branches of the umbel 

 slender, 3 to 5 cm. long, the bractlets similar to the bracts, but 

 much smaller, the pedicels slender, shorter than the flowers, 

 which are nearly 3 cm. long, and 2 cm. broad as pressed, cam- 

 panulate and lightly curved. Sepals obovate, rose-colored exter- 

 nally and cream-colored within. Petals of about equal length, 

 cream-colored with fine purplish spots, spatulate, the lower third 

 being narrowed into a claw. Filaments puberulent. Ovary very 



