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Genera and Species of Museae . 
separate the Mexican H. Bourgoeana, Petersen (Bourgeau, 2502 I 
2609 1 ), nor the Peruvian H. Poeppigiana , Eichler, both of which 
are fully described in Flora Brasiliensis. H. indica , Lam., 
H. buccinata , Roxb., AT. austro-caledonica , Yieill., and Heli- 
coniopsis amboinemis, Miquel (Rumph. Amboin. V, t. 62, fig. 2), 
appear to be only cultivated forms of this species, of which 
I have seen specimens from New Caledonia, New Guinea, and 
the Solomon Islands. H. aureo-striata, Bull Cat. 1881, 18, 
with woodcut, said to be from the South Sea Islands, is, 
1 presume, a form of this with variegated leaves. H. ? trium- 
phant, Hort. Linden., Ill Hort. n. s. tab. 448, from Sumatra ; 
and HP. striata , Hort. Veitch., Flore des Serres, tab. 2416-7, 
said to have been received from New South Wales, are garden 
plants with variegated leaves, not known in flower. H. ? leuco- 
gramma, Hort. Van Houtte, proved to be a Calathea. H. 
Seemanni , Hort. Van Houtte, of which the leaves are figured in 
their catalogue for 1875-6, p. 183, may be also a form of 
Bihai with leaves variegated with white. 
9 . H. humilis, Jacq. Hort. Schoen. I, t. 48-49 ; Red. Lib t. 382-3 ; 
Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 5613. Whole plant 4-5 ft. long. 
Leaves oblong, acute, long-petioled, green and glabrous 
beneath, 1J-2 ft. long, 4-6 in. broad at the middle, deltoid at 
the base. Panicle erect or drooping ; branch-bracts few, spaced 
out on the pubescent flexuose rachis, ovate, deeply boat-shaped, 
glabrous, bright red with a narrow green edge, all more or less 
ascending, the lowest 4-6 in. long, 2-2 \ in. round above the 
broadly adnate base. Flowers many in a cluster, greenish-white, 
2 in. long ; bracts glabrous, as long as the flowers. Staminode 
oblong, acute. Trinidad, Pur die, 41 ! Fendler , 806 ! 807 ! 
Upper Amazon, Traill, 815 ! Scarcely more than a variety of 
If. Bihai. 
10. H. pendula, Wawra, Iter Max. 142, t. 21. Whole plant 8-9 ft. 
long. Leaves oblong, green and glabrous beneath, reaching 
a length of 4-5 feet and a breadth of a foot long. Panicle 
pendulous from a long curved peduncle, a foot or more long, 
half a foot broad at the base ; branch-bracts spaced out on the 
very flexuose pubescent rachis, all except the uppermost 
reflexed, ovate, deeply boat- shaped, glabrous, bright red with 
a greenish-yellow margin, 3-4 in, long by under 2 in. round 
