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Genera and Species of Museae. 
26. H. psittacorum, Linn. fil. Suppl. 198; Peters, in Mart. FI. Bras. 
Ill, pt. 3, tab. 7, fig. 1 ; H. mar antifolia , G. Shaw. Whole 
plant 2-3 ft. long. Leaves long-petioled, linear-lanceolate, 
green and glabrous beneath, narrowed to the base, the lower 
1-1J ft. long, 1-2 in. broad at the middle. Peduncle long, 
slender, glabrous. Panicle deltoid, 3-4 in. long ; rachis but 
little flexuose ; branch-bracts 4-5, lanceolate, erecto-patent, 
bright red, glabrous, the lower 3-4 in. long, under an inch 
round at the base. Flowers about 6 in a cluster, bright yellow, 
with a black tip, ij in. long; pedicels J in. long. Staminode 
tricuspidate. 
Var. EL Sehomburgkiana, Klotzsch, in Linn. XX, 465 ; 
II. psittacorum , var. spathacea , Eichl. ; Peters, in FI. Bras. Ill, 
pt. 3, tab. 7, fig. 2. Taller and more robust, with broader 
leaves more rounded at the base, and more numerous larger 
branch-bracts. 
Var. H. subulata, Ruiz et Pav. FI. Peruv. tab. 303 ; 
H. angusta , Veil. FI. Flum. Ill, t. 20 ; II Andrews!', Klotzsch, 
in Linn. XX, 465 (Andr. Bot. Rep. tab. 124). Still more 
robust, with leaves 3-3! in. broad, panicle J-i ft. long with 
a very flexuose rachis and lower branch-bracts 6-9 in. long, 
an inch round the base. Throughout South America, from 
the West Indies to Peru and South Brazil. 
27. H. metallica, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5315. Whole plant 6-8 ft. 
long. Leaves oblong, long-petioled, narrowed to the base, 
bright green above, bright claret-purple all over beneath, 
1 \-2 ft. long, 4-5 in. broad at the middle. Peduncle slender, 
glabrous, stiffly erect. Panicle about J ft. long and broad ; 
rachis but little flexuose ; bracts distant, ascending, green, 
glabrous, lanceolate-acuminate, the lowest much the largest, 
4-5 in. long, 2 in. round at the base. Flowers few in a cluster, 
bright red with a greenish-white tip, 2 in. long ; pedicels short. 
Staminode ovate. Santa Marta, at the foot of the Sierra 
Nevada, Schlim. Introduced into cultivation about 1856. 
H. vinosa, Bull Cat. 1871, 5 probably belongs here. 
28. H. pulverulenta, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1048; Hook, in Bot. 
Mag. t. 4685. Whole plant 4-6 ft. long. Leaves long- 
petioled, oblong, the upper i-i\ ft. long, 4-5 in. broad, cor- 
date at the base, white-farinose beneath. Peduncle long, 
