Werauhia ororiensis (Mez) J. R. Grant

Thecophyllum crassiflorum Mez & Werckle; Mez, Bull Herb. Boiss. II. 3: 138. 1903.
Apparently stemless but imperfectly known; leaves unknown; scape probably erect, stout, 5 dm. long, subglabrous; scape-bracts all exceeding the internodes, the lower ones foliaceous, narrowly triangular, acuminate, erect, very minutely and obscurely imraersed-lepidote, the upper ones elliptic-ovate with short reflexed blades; inflorescence very densely cylindric, stout, slightly interrupted at the base, 23 cm. long, 4 cm. in diameter; primary bracts suberect with recun'ed apices, very broadly ovate, triangular-acute, inflated, obscurely brown-punctulate, bright-red toward the apex, the lower ones exceeding the flowers; floral bracts strongly asymmetric, obliquely truncate, 12 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, coriaceous, scarcely or not at all lepidote; flowers 1 or 2 in the axil of each primary bract, sessile or with very short and stout pedicels, 30 mm. long; sepals subelliptic, obtuse, asymmetric, 16 mm. long, 14 mm. wide, thick, coriaceous, rigid when dry, even, dull.
Type locality: Vicinity of Cartago. Costa Rica, altitude 1200-1400 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type collection.

Thecophyllum ororiense (Mez) Mez, Bull Herb. Boiss. II. 3: 131. 1903.
Cuzmania ororiensis Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 917. 1896.
Steraless, 5-8 dm. high; leaves many in a dense slenderly crateriforra rosette, 35-55 cm. long; sheaths large, ovate, castaneous, densely and finely immersed-cinereous-Iepidote throughout; blades ligulate, subobtuse and apiculate, 5-6 cm. wide, subrigid, soon glabrous above, conspicuously punctulate-lepidote beneath with brownish-purple scales; scape decurved, very stout, equaling or longer than the leaves; scape-bracts exceeding the internodes, very broadly ovate with a triangular acute blade, recurved or spirally involute toward the apex or rarely suberect, subinflated; inflorescence pendulous, many-flowered, densely cylindric especially toward the apex, up to 2 dm. long and 65 mm. in diameter, glabrous; primary bracts amply triangularovate, exceeding the axillary flowers, recurved, yellow at the base, bright-scarlet toward the apex; branches almost wholly aborted; floral bracts suborbicular, obtuse, 12 mm. long, distinctly shorter than the sepals, carinate, coriaceous, thick; flowers always 2 in each axil; pedicels very short and thick; sepals very broadly obovate, 2 cm. long, 15 mm. wide, coriaceous, thick, free; petals ligulate with a broadly elliptic obtuse blade, 3 era. long, yellow, bearing 2 large lanceolate acuminate scales at the base; stamens included.
Type locality: Near Orori, Costa Rica. Distribution: Costa Rica.

Thecophyllum standleyi L. B. Smith, Contr Gray Herb. 117: 30. 1937.
Plant imperfectly known, probably stemless, up to 5 dm. high; leaves 4 dm. long, very
densely and obscurely lepidote with pale-brown-centered scales; sheaths large, ovate-elliptic,
in the type scarcely darker than the blade; blades ligulate, acute, flat, 3-4 era. wide, green,
concolorous; scape erect, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, the lower ones
foliaceous, the upper ovate, acuminate, red, densely pale-Iepidote; inflorescence cylindric, 2 dm.
long, 6 cm. in diameter, dense; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, spreading, or recurved
toward the apex, exceeding the 2 flowers borne in each a.xil; branches aborted ; floral bracts broadly
ovate, acute, 12 mm. long, much shorter than the sepals, carinate, thin, minutely lepidote;
flowers subsessile; sepals ovate, obtuse, cucuUate, 20 mm. long, 1 1 mm. wide, obtusely carinate,
coriaceous, pale-lepidote, free; petals known in immature state only, ligulate, green, bearing 2
scales at the base.
Type locality : Cerro de las Vueltas, Province San Jos4, Costa Rica, altitude 2700-3000 meters. Distribution: Known from the type collection only.

Thecophyllum irazuense Mez & Werckl^; Mez, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3: 138. 1903.
Stemless; flowering plant 1 m. or more high; leaves many in a dense rosette, erect, up to 4 dm. long; sheaths large, ovate-elliptic, very densely and minutely pale-lepidote, dark-reddishbrown at base; blades subligulate, acute, 7 cm. wide, rigid when dry, minutely lepidote, reddishviolet, very densely marked with faint wavy transverse lines, the apex recurved; scape stout, glabrous; scape-bracts erect and involute, exceeding the internodes, ovate-elliptic, shortcaudate, subinflated; inflorescence many-flowered, dense, slenderly cylindric, at least twice as long as the leaves, 15-30 cm. long, 4 cm. in diameter, glabrous; primary bracts reflexed, like the scape-bracts, the apex spirally revolute, the lower ones longer than the flowers, the ujjper about equaling them; branches wholly aborted; floral bracts suborbicular or reniform, 8-12 mm. long, much shorter than the sepals, obtuse, strongly convex, little or not at all carinate, thin; flowers 2 in the axil of each primary bract; sepals very broadly elliptic, obtuse, 20 mm. long, 15 mm. wide, thick, coriaceous, free.
Type locality: Vicinity of Irazu Volcano and Las Pacayas de Cartage, Costa Rica. Distribution: Province of Cartago, Costa Rica and Panama.

Werauhia ororiensis is a plant species in the genus Werauhia. This species is native to Costa Rica.