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very short; flower-bracts hairy outside. Staminode minute. 
Brazil, Blanchet , 2971 ! Glaziou, 8496 ! New Granada, Holton , 
21 1 ! Triana, 2647! Peru, Haenke. 
2. H. imbricata, Baker; Bihai imbricata, Kuntze, Revis. Gen. 684. 
Whole plant 3-4 yards long, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 
oblong, acute, 3-4 ft. long, a foot or more broad. Peduncle 
sub-erect, nearly a foot long. Panicle dense, conic, 8 in. long, 
half a foot broad at the base, 2 in. at the top; branch-bracts 
about 10 on a side, ovate, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, the 
lowest spreading horizontally, 4 in. long by 4 in. round at the 
base. Flowers many in a cluster. Costa Rica ; Port Lemon, 
Kuntze , who proposes for the species with dense inflorescence 
a section named Taeniostrobus. 
3. EE. Mariae,Hook.fil. in Journ. Linn. Soc.VII,68; H. elegans, Peters. 
Whole plant 6-7 yds. or more long. Leaves oblong, long- 
petioled, 3-4 ft. long by a quarter as broad, rounded at the base, 
green and glabrous beneath. Panicle pendulous; peduncle 
stout, glabrous, above a foot long ; branch-bracts 20-30 or 
more, slightly imbricated, ovate, glabrous, very coriaceous, 
deeply boat-shaped, all more or less reflexed, 2-3 in. long, 2 in. 
round above the base. Flowers red, 15-20 in a cluster, 1 \ in. 
long ; bracts glabrous ; pedicels hairy. Staminode lanceolate. 
Fruit blue. New Granada, province of Bolivar, Dr. Anthoine ! ; 
Panama, Wagner , Kuntze . It was named, at the request of 
the discoverer, in compliment to the Empress of Russia. 
4. H. conferta, Peters, in FI. Bras. Ill, pt. 3, 13, tab. 3, fig. 2. Leaf 
oblong, rounded at the base, green and glabrous beneath, 
about 4 ft. long by a foot broad. Peduncle stout, pubescent ; 
panicle nearly a foot long and broad ; branch-bracts about 1 o, 
cordate-ovate acuminate, 4-5 in. long, 3-4 in. broad at the 
base, only an inch halfway up, crowded so that they hide the 
rachis, spreading, glabrous. Flowers 2 in. long, glabrous; 
flower-bracts oblique ovate. Guadeloupe, Duchdssaing. 
5. H. Wagneriana, Peters, in FI. Bras. Ill, pt. 3, 13. Leaf oblong, 
green and glabrous beneath, 4 ft. long, nearly a foot broad, 
gradually narrowed to t. e base. Panicle ij ft. long by nearly 
a foot broad ; rachis slightly flexuose, pubescent ; branch- 
bracts close, ovate-acuminate, deeply boat-shaped, the lower 
5-6 in. long, 3-4 in. round near the adnate base. Flowers 
