Occasional Notes. 147 
New Plants from Guiana. — As was to be expected, 
now that our Botanic Gardens have been fairly advanced 
and that the Government Botanist is enabled to devote a 
certain part of each year to travelling in the interior, the 
number of new plants from Guiana introduced into 
English cultivation is increasing. A few of these we 
propose to notice here. 
In 1880 imperfect specimens of a remarkable agave- 
like plant from the Kaieteur savannah on the Potaro River 
were taken to Kew by Mr. IM THURN, where, by reason 
of their imperfection, they were supposed by Mr. J. G. 
BAKER to represent a new species of Cordyline, which 
was accordingly described and figured in the Gar- 
dener's Chronicle vol. xiv, p. 241 as C. micrantha nov. 
sp. But Mr. G. S. Jenman having recently procured 
and sent to Kew some much finer specimens of this 
plant than those previously deposited, it has been found 
that, as Mr. N. E. BROWN writes from Kew : — 
" It turns out to be, not a Cordyline at all, and does not even belong to 
the order Liliacea, but to the Bromeliaeeee, and is thought to belong to 
the little known genus Brocehinia ; it will, I believe, shortly be fully 
described by Mr. Baker, under the name of Brocehinia oordylinoides, 
along with another new Bromeliad contained in the collection. Thia 
fine arborescent Bromeliad is represented in the foreground of the illus - 
tration that accompanies the description on p. 241 of the volume of the 
Gardener't Chronicle above quoted. It appears to be confined to the sa- 
vannah above the Kaieteur Fall in the Potaro river, and is itself inhab- 
ited by another very handsome and interesting plant, viz., Utricularia 
Humboldtii which finds a home in the water held in the axils of the 
leaves of the Bromeliad. Mr. Jenman states on the label sent with the 
Utricularia that it is " aquatic, confined to the water contained in the 
axils of the leaves of Cordyline micrantha, which is always copious. 
The stems rise up and flower above the leaves of the Cordyline. Very com- 
mon. It appears to be strictly confined to the Cordyline \_Brocohinia~\" 
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