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 and erect, the tube nearly 1 in. long, villous, the limb 3 lines long, very densely villous with spreading hairs. Style rigid, incurved at the base, then erect, with a narrow furrowed stigmatic end of 1 to 1¼ lines. Fruiting cones after the fall of the perianth-remains showing the prominent conical tomentose ends of the bracts; capsules prominent, rounded, rather thick, tomentose or shortly villous, about ¾ in. broad, the lateral base of the style more or less prominent.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 584, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 459.

37. B. Victoriæ, ''Meissn. in. Hook. Kew Journ. vii. 119, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 464. A shrub of 12 to 15 ft., nearly allied to B. prionotes'' but the branches more hirsute, the leaves divided more than halfway to the midrib into broad triangular acute or acuminate lobes, the larger ones fully ½ in. long and broad, and the loose ferruginous wool more persistent although ultimately deciduous. Spike of B. prionotes, but the outer bracts at the base above ½ inch long and plumose with long hairs. Perianth rather longer than in B. prionotes, much more villous, especially the limb. Style the same. Capsules more prominent, 1 in. broad, densely villous with purple hairs.—Bot. Mag. t. 4906; B. speciosa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1728 not of R. Br.

38. B. speciosa, ''R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 210, Prod. 396''. A tall shrub, with thick tomentose branches. Leaves shortly petiolate, 8 in. to above 1 ft. long, divided to the midrib into numerous contiguous rounded or triangular shortly acuminate segments, the larger ones ¾ in. broad at the base and nearly as long, diminishing towards each end of the leaf, flat, rigid, retaining more or less of a white tomentum underneath, with numerous transverse converging veins. Spikes very thick, oblong, 4 to 5 in. long. Perianths incurved upwards, hirsute, the tube about 1 in., the obtuse hirsute limb about 2½ lines long. Style incurved at the base, erect, rigid, hairy; stigmatic end stipitate and furrowed.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 464; Bot. Mag. t. 3052 (the leaves not quite correct); B. grandidentata, Dum. Cours (Meissn).

39. B. Baxteri, ''R. Br. Prot. Nov. 36''. A tall shrub, the branches glabrous or hirsute under the spikes with long fine spreading hairs. Leaves mostly 3 to 4 in. long, divided to the middle into ovate-triangular acute contiguous segments, the larger ones 1 in. long and ¾ in. broad at the base but mostly smaller, flat, rigid, pale or whitish underneath with several fine and faint transverse converging veins. Spikes globular, 2 to 3 in. diameter, the outer linear bracts plumose with long fine hairs. Perianths hirsute with long fine hairs, 1½ in. long, the limb narrow, acute or acuminate, about 4 lines long. Sty1e incurved at the base, erect, thick and rigid, densely hairy, the