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Baker. — A Synopsis of the 
stiffly erect. Panicle deltoid, 6-8 in. long; rachis but little 
flexuose ; branch-bracts about 5, lanceolate-acuminate, erecto- 
patent, glabrous, bright crimson, the lowest 6-9 in. long, j in. 
round at the base, the others much shorter. Flowers many in 
a cluster, 1 \ in. long, greenish-white ; pedicels short. Stami- 
node oblong, mucronate. West Indies, probably Dominica, 
Hort. Kew . ! South Brazil, Glaziou , 18555 ! Trinidad, Pur die ! 
H. farinosa , Raddi, and H. dealbata , Lodd., probably belong 
here. Of the former the leaf only is described, Mem. 4, Piant. 
Nuov. Bras. p. 14 (Modena, 1820). 
29 . H. glauea, Poit. ; B. Verlot, in Rev. Hort. 1869, 112, with 
coloured figure. Whole plant 5-6 feet long. Leaves long- 
petioled, oblong, deltoid at the base, thinly white-farinose 
beneath, i|-2 ft. long by 4-5 in. broad at the middle. 
Peduncle long, stiffly erect, glabrous. Panicle about \ ft. long 
by 8-9 in. broad ; rachis very flexuose, bright coral-red ; 
branch-bracts about 5, distant, lanceolate, yellowish-green, 
glabrous, the lowest 5-6 in. long by an inch broad low down, 
the others shorter, the upper ascending, the central ones 
portent. Flowers 6-10 in a cluster, yellowish -green ; pedicels 
and ovary bright red, the former J-i in. long. Demerara, 
Drake ! Flowered at the Jardin des Plantes at Paris in 1869. 
Genus 2. Strelitzia, Alton. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals lanceolate, subequal, the one opposite 
the united petals more convex on the back. Petals very 
unequal, two connivent so as to form a saggittate blade in the 
centre of which is a channel that holds the stamens and style ; 
the third very small, ovate. Perfect Stamens 5, as long as the 
petals ; anthers long, linear, 2-celled. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 
many in a cell, superposed ; style long, deeply divided at the 
apex into three branches. Capsule oblong, triquetrous, loculi- 
cidally 3-valved. Seeds few in a cell, furnished with a woolly 
arillus.— Acaulescent or caulescent. Leaves distichous, with 
a long petiole deeply channelled down the face and usually an 
oblong blade. Peduncle long or short; branch-bracts deeply 
boat-shaped, coriaceous, acute, usually single. Sepals bright 
yellow or white. Petals usually blue. The genus was named, 
at the suggestion of Sir Joseph Banks, after Charlotte, the 
