198 
Baker . — A Synopsis of the 
America from Jamaica and Nicaragua to Peru and the South 
of Brazil. 
23. H. choconiana, S. Wats, in Proc. Amer. Acad. XXIII, 284; 
Garden and Forest, 1888, 161, fig. 31. Whole plant 3-4 ft. 
long. Leaves without any free petiole, linear-oblong, green 
and glabrous beneath, 6-10 in. long, 2 in. broad, rounded 
to the base. Panicle subsessile, moderately dense, 3-4 in. 
long; branch-bracts 5-6, scarlet, glabrous, lanceolate-acumi- 
nate, the lowest long and leaf-pointed, the central 2-2 J in. long, 
not narrowed from the base to the middle. Flowers pale 
yellow, 2 in. long; pedicels glabrous, in. long. Staminode 
ovate, abruptly cuspidate. Guatemala ; banks of the Chocon 
river, Dr. S. Wciison. 
24. H. aurantiaca, Ghiesb. ; Lemaire, in 111. Hort. tab. 332 (1862); 
//. hr evispatha. Hook, in Bot. Mag. tab. 5416 (1863); H. 
aurea, Hort. Whole plant 2-3 ft. long. Leaves oblong, 
nearly sessile on the sheaths, green and glabrous beneath, 
the lower 9-12 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, broadly rounded at the 
base. Peduncle slender, erect, glabrous. Panicle erect, del- 
toid, 3-4 in. long ; branch-bracts 3-4, lanceolate, erecto-patent, 
the lowest 3-4 in. long, an inch round at the base, orange-red 
with a green tip, the upper much shorter, entirely red-yellow ; 
rachis but little flexuose. Flowers about 4 in a cluster, 
greenish-white, 2 in. long ; pedicels short, red, glabrous. 
Staminode obliquely ovate. Forests of Southern Mexico. 
Introduced into cultivation by Ghiesbreght through Ver- 
shaffelt about i860. 
25. H. angustifolia, Hook, in Bot. Mag. tab. 4475; B . bicolor , 
Benth. in Maund Bot. tab. 10 1 ; Regel, Gartenfl. tab. 172; 
Horan. Prodr. Scit. tab. 4, non Klotzsch. Whole plant 3-4 
ft. long. Leaves petioled, linear-oblong, very acute, cuneate 
at the base, green and glabrous beneath, the lower 1J-2 ft. 
long, 2J-3 in. broad. Peduncle erect, glabrous. Panicle 
deltoid, \ ft. long; rachis but little flexuose; branch-bracts 
6-7, lanceolate-acuminate, bright red to the edge, glabrous, 
the lowest 5-6 in. long, i-i| in round at the base, the others 
much shorter. Flowers 8-10 in a cluster, white, above 2 in. 
long; pedicels short, glabrous, orange-red. Staminode 
lanceolate. Brazil. Introduced into cultivation about 1846. 
