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Genera and Species of Mnseae. 
drooping from a short curved peduncle, which is densely 
clothed with soft bright brown hairs, deltoid, a foot long ; 
rachis scarcely at all flexuose, clothed with hairs like those of 
the peduncle ; branch-bracts few, lanceolate, spaced out on 
the rachis, arcuate-ascending, slightly pubescent on the back 
towards the base, the lowest 6-8 in. long, 1J-2 in. round 
above the shortly adnate base. Flowers few in a cluster, 2 in. 
long; pedicels finally an inch long, hairy; bracts lanceolate, 
as long as the flowers. Santa Marta, Pur die ! Guatemala, 
alt. 5000 ft., Donnell- Smith, 1873 ! Intermediate between 
dasyantha and latispatha. 
15. H. brasiliensis, Hook. Exot. Flora, tab. 190; Paxt. Mag. Ill, 
193, with coloured figure; Kernel*, Hort. t. 803. Whole plant 
6-8 ft. long. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, green and 
glabrous beneath, 2-3 ft. long by 8-10 in. broad. Peduncle 
long, stiffly erect. Panicle deltoid, 6-9 in. long; rachis flexuose, 
pubescent; branch-bracts 8-12, lanceolate-acuminate, bright 
red to the edge, glabrous, the lower 6-9 in. long, i-i| in. 
round above the base, all arcuate-ascending. Flowers 6-9 in 
a cluster, dull green, or according to Petersen a handsome red 
or yellow, 2 in. long ; ovary yellow ; pedicels finally an inch 
long; tube very short. Staminode oblong. South Brazil, 
Bowie and Cunningham ! Bure hell, 1248! Glaziou, 8982! 
18554 ! Banks of the Parana, Parodi\ Amazon valley, Traill, 
813 ! New Granada, Triana , 1647 ! 
16. H. latispatha, Benth. Bot. Sulphur, 170 (1844); H. m,eridensis, 
Klolzsch, in Linn. XX, 462 (1847). Whole plant 6-8 ft. long. 
Leaves oblong, long-petioled, green and glabrous beneath, 
2-3 ft. long by nearly a foot broad. Peduncle long, glabrous, 
erect. Panicle sometimes a foot long ; rachis flexuose, nearly 
glabrous; branch-bracts 7-9, lanceolate-acuminate, all arcuate- 
ascending, the lowest 8-12 in. long, ij in. round at base, often 
leafy at the top, the upper gradually smaller. Flowers many 
in a cluster, 1J-2 in. long; pedicels pubescent. Staminode 
oblong-cuspidate. Andes of Bogota, Harlwig ! Salango, 
Columbia, Hinds ! Venezuela, Moritz, 1287 ! Panama, Fendler, 
443! Guatemala, Donnell- Smith, 1829! A plant in Herb. 
Mus. Brit., gathered long ago by Shakespeare, is probably 
this species. 
