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truncate base, and short-stalked, the outer ones 300 X 180 + 75 the 

 inner ones 50 + 250 + 200. In another plant with 7 leaves the stem-forming 

 sheaths were 280 mm. long; three measured leaves were respectively 

 300X280+150, 480X275 + 200, 450 X 270+ 100, thus P. — 1.5; I also 

 found 400X240+100+200; 300X195 + 50+170; 360X210 + 60+190. 



In other plants with exception of the first-formed leaves which are broadly 

 elliptical, the leaves are rather long-petioled elliptical-lanceolate with a 

 rounded outer-edge and an obliquely acute base, the oldest leaf 500X260 

 the youngest 500X115; the largest measured leaf 650X300. 



The ligula is chiefly similar to that of C. aurantiaca, but both the 

 lobes, which form lateral auricles at the base of the petiole, are here 

 smaller (not longer than 3 mm.) 



Inflorescence: Peduncle nearly quite enclosed by the sheath of the 

 last leaf, arising from — 80 mm. above the sheath, 150 mm. or more 

 long, entirely finely pubescent; peduncle thin (in sicco 3 mm.) always 

 provided with one pedunclar leaf, which now is brought approximate to 

 the lower side of the inflorescence and now nearly forming a part of the 

 inflorescence, but mostly it is placed under' this from 25 to 100 mm. and 

 accordingly it has a length from 35—190 mm. It is ovate or lanceolate, 

 but both the edges are quite adnate to the peduncle, or when it is long, 

 to the half, but seldom is quite open; always it leaves the opposite side 

 of the pedunele free so as to form a wide obconical pouch, similar to 

 that of the floral bracts, the peduncle has no nodose thickening at the base 

 and a ligula is wanting. The highest normal leaf of the stem is always 

 provided with an open sheath which ends at the top in a hairy bilobate 

 ligula. 



Towards the top of the inflorescence the pouches become proportion- 

 ally shorter, the bracts more acute und more oblong. Central bracts of a 

 large spike: 50 mm. long, 22—25 broad, more than the half free. One of 

 the central leaves of the coma is 60X24, of which 50 are free, the top 

 is acutely bow-shaped, without a mucro, only when seen under the lens, 

 a projecting point. All bracts are especially at the edge and at the top 

 more or less hairy. The peduncle is quite hairy. Of a poor spike the 

 following dimensions: Peduncular leaf (when flattened) 50 mm. adnate 

 portion 30 m.m., the free spreading top is ovate, 20 mm. long and 

 when planed 35 broad. Lowest floral bracts 16 (free portion) + 30 (pouch) 

 X18; 15 +20 X 20; further 23 + 20 X20; 25 + 20X 20; above the 

 middle. Coma-leaves 25 + 25X 17; 40+10X16. The flowers sometimes 

 do not protrude far out of the bracts, the lowest from the short bracts, 

 however, often nearly to the half. The colour of the coma-bracts is dark-red 

 between 577, 570, 582 and 583, the tops + 2. (red) lighter and greenish 

 at the base. The others likewise all violet at the foremost part; lower in 



