Tas: 5321: 
ECHINOSTACHYS PINELIANA. 
Banded Echinostachys. 
Nat. Ord. BroMELIACEZ.—HExaNDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubo adnato, nec superius libero, lobis equalibus, convo- 
lutis, mucronatis. Petala medio constricta, ungue lato superne squamulis fim- 
briatis aucto. Stamina petalis opposita; filamento undique adnato. Ovarium 
crassum, carnosum, ovulis 3 ex apice loculorum pendulis.—Herba acauiis, basi 
surculosa, furfuraceo-canescens ; foliis confertis, ligulatis, canaliculatis, basi dila- 
tatis, margine aculeatis; scapo terminali, erecto, sesquipedali; bracteis lanceo- 
latis purpureis ornato ; spica cylindrica, densa, bractearum apicibus exsertis subu- 
latis echinata; floribus flavis post anthesin nigrescentibus, amplitudine circiter 
AXchme fulgentis. Brongn. in Planch. Hort. Donat, 25. 
Ecurnostacuys Pineliana, Brongn. 1. c. 
A singular and striking plant, from the vivid colour of the 
peduncle and bracts. According to Planchon, in his ‘ Hortus 
Donatensis,’ or Catalogue of Plants cultivated in the houses of 
Prince A. Demidoff at San Donato, near Florence, it is a 
native of Rio de Janeiro. The precise habitat of our specimen 
has been lost, but it was sent to us from the establishments of 
M. Mackoy, of Liége. : 
Dzscr. Whole plant two to three feet high ; almost stemless. 
Leaves linear, rigid, concave, spinulose-dentate along the mar- 
gin, acute and pungent at the apices, uniformly covered on both 
surfaces with fine appressed silvery furfuraceous down, minutely 
striated, and very obscurely transversely fasciate with brown. 
Flowering stem a foot high, terete, erect, wholly covered with 
loosely-sheathing lanceolate acuminate bright-red dracés, three to 
four inches long, and membranous. Speke dense, cylindrical, 
two inches long, spinulose from the projecting spines of the 
bracts. Bracts oblong, shorter than the calyz, blunt, abruptly 
JUNE lst, 1862. 
