192 
Baker . — A Synopsis of the 
many in a cluster; bracts ovate-oblong, glabrous. Panama, 
Wagner. 
6. H. villosa, Klotzsch, in Linn. XX, 463 ; Peters, in FI. Bras. Ill, 
pt. 3, t. 4. Whole plant 6-8 ft. long. Leaves oblong, green 
and glabrous beneath, 2-3 ft. long by nearly a foot broad, 
rounded at the base ; petiole long, stout. Panicle pendulous 
from a curved stout peduncle which is densely clothed with soft 
brown hairs, deltoid, a foot long and broad ; rachis flexuose, 
densely pubescent ; branch-bracts ovate, deeply boat-shaped, 
densely hairy outside, spreading, the central ones 3-4 in. long, 
2 in. round above the shortly adnate base, the lowest bract 
5-6 in. long. Flowers many in a cluster, 2 in. long ; bracts 
lanceolate, hairy, as long as the flowers. Staminode subulate, 
minute. Venezuela, Moritz , 250! Fendler, 1771! Brazil, 
Sello. 
7. H. vellerigera, Poepp. Reise Chili, II, 295. Leaf unknown. 
Whole plant 6-7 ft. long. Panicle lax ; rachis slightly flexuose, 
densely clothed with long soft brown hairs ; branch-bracts 
ovate, deeply boat-shaped, densely pubescent, 4-6 in. long, 
above 3 in. broad above the base, narrowed suddenly above 
the middle. Upper Peru ; province of Maynas, Poeppig . 
8. H. Bihai, Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. XIII, 204; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 640; 
Bot. Reg. t. 374; L. C. Rich. Comm. t. 8 and 10, fig. 1 ; 
Peters, in FI. Bras. Ill, pt. 3, t. 5 ; H. cariboea, Lam. ; H luteo- 
fusca, nigrescens , and variegata , Jacq. Hort. Schoen. I, 25. 
Whole plant 8-20 ft. long. Leaves oblong, long-petioled, 
green and glabrous beneath, the lower 3-4 ft. long, nearly 
a foot broad. Panicle lax, erect or drooping, 1-2 ft. long ; 
rachis glabrous, hardly at all flexuose ; branch-bracts all 
arcuate-ascending, ovate acuminate, deeply boat-shaped, bright 
crimson, with a yellow edge, the lowest 5-6 in. long, 2J-3 in. 
round above the broadly adnate base. Flowers many in 
a cluster, whitish, iJ-2 in. long; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 
glabrous ; pedicels short. Staminode oblong, acute. Through- 
out eastern tropical America from the West Indies - to South 
Brazil. Venezuela, Moritz, 200! Fendler, 1490! Guatemala, 
Donnell- Smith, 1830! Panama, Hayes \ Santa Marta, Schlim, 
1000! New Granada, Holton\ Introduced into cultivation in 
-Europe from the West Indies in 1786. I cannot clearly 
