Notes on Plants at Roraima. 159 
dant, plant on the Kaieteur savannah is a huge aloe-like 
Brocchinia (B. cordylinoides, Baker) which was gathered 
there by Mr. JENMAN and myself some years ago but 
which was, until the Roraima expedition, unknown from 
elsewhere. This gigantic plant, of such striking aspect as 
to compel notice even from the most unobservant travel- 
ler, is ranged in enormous numbers over the Kaieteur sa- 
vannah, and indeed makes, to a large extent, the strange- 
ness of that strange scene. There the height of a full 
grown specimen is, under the most favourable circumstan- 
ces, about 15 feet; and, in the older specimens at 
least, the crown of leaves is supported on a tall bare 
stem. It seems also there to flower abundantly. We 
shall see that the plant occurs, but with slightly different 
characters, on Roraima. Moreover, at the Kaieteur, in 
the axils of the leaves of this Brocchinia, end only in 
that position, grows a very remarkable and beautiful 
Utricularia (U. Humboldtii. Schk.j, with flower stems 
3 or 4 feet long, supporting many splendidly large violet 
flowers. This plant too we shall find on Roraima, but 
also with slightly different characters from those which 
it exhibits at the Kaieteur. Another remarkable and 
distinct plant on the Kaieteur savannah is a low-growing 
Brocchinia (B. reducla, Baker,/, also previously known 
only from there, which may be roughly described as 
resembling three or four sheets of yellowish grey fools- 
cap paper, rolled loosely one round the other, the whole 
standing on one end of the roll. This plant I did not 
observe on Roraima, though I feel convinced that it will 
one day be found there ; but I did see it, in very consi- 
derable quantity, in one small district about half way 
between the Kaieteur and Roraima. Only one other 
