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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



leaves and bracts very long, deep crimson, apparently not scurfy, and a spike distinctly branched ; the corolla being 

 longer and white-edged : this we would call T. erythrcea ; we have the same species from Para. A fourth, T. eminens, is 

 a St. Domingo plant, with the leaves much shorter than the spike, which is leafless, branched, and composed of numerous 

 two-ranked crimson-keeled naked bracts; it may be compared to T. polystachya, although very different. A fifth is from 

 Para, and is readily distinguished by a peculiar lumpish habit, an abundance of very coarse loose scurfs, spreading up 

 to the very points of the outer bracts, which are not coloured, and a nearly simple spike sessile among the leaves, which, 

 nevertheless, scarcely overtop it ; this may be named T. pumila. For the convenience of our scientific readers, we put 

 these distinctions into technical language : — 



Folia raclicalia basi dilatata bulbwn simulantia. 



T. inanis ; scapo foliis breviore, spica simplici basi foliosa, bracteis viridi-purpureis 

 lepidotis inferioribus omnibus inanibus. — Buenos Ayres. 



T. hulbosa (Hook. Exot. FL, t. 173); scapo foliis breviore, spica aphylld basi ramosa, 

 bracteis herbaceis arete lepidotis. — Trinidad. 



T. erytlima (alias T. hulbosa pic la Hooker, Bot. Mag., t. 4288) ; scapo foliis breviore, 

 spica ramosti, bracteis foliaceis coccineis nudis (?) infimis spica longioribus.— Jamaica ; Para. 



T. eminens; scapo foliis altiore, spica apbylla ramosa, bracteis nudis coccineis distichis 

 carinatis apice uncinatis. — Si. Domingo. The inflorescence is almost that of a branched Yriesia. 



T. pumila ; scapo inter folia sessili_, spica sub simplici aphylla, bracteis herbaceis coriaceis 

 ventricosis laxissime lepidotis. — Para. Yalves of the fruit straight, and ches nut brown ; not 

 pitch black, as in T. erytJiraa. 



