Tab. 5668. 



iECHMEA GLOMERATA. 

 Crowded-flowered JEchmea. 



Nat. Ord. Bromeliace2e. — Hexakdeia Moxooynia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra. Tab.' 5117.) 



Noumea glomerate; foliis e basi amplexantibus sensim dilatatis late li- 

 neari- v. oblongo-ligulatis cuspidatis 8-4 poll, latis viridibus, margine 

 spinalis remotiusculis brovibus nigris inferioribus crebrioribus re- 

 eurvis ornato, scapo erecto folio longiore ramoso viridi-roseo picto, 

 ramis brevibua undique florif'eris, floribus bracteatis dense glomeratis, 

 bracteis basi ovatis dein subulatis sepalisque erectis imbricatis san- 

 guiueis pungentibus, petalia violaceis acuminatis, ungue apice 2-squa- 

 itiato, filamentia flliformibuB. 



Pivonneata glomerata. Gaud. Voy. Bonite, t. 63. 



-llopioPHYTuir augustum, partim. Beer, Die Familie der Bromeliaceen, p. 

 136. 



m A native of the province of Bahia, in Brazil, from whence 

 living specimens were sent in 1863 by C. Williams, Esq., of 

 that city, which flowered in the Palm House of the Royal 

 Gardens in March of the present year. It is a most beau- 

 tiful plant, easy of cultivation, and is very effective at a 

 season when the tropical houses are rather deficient in con- 

 spicuous plants. 



This species is exceedingly well figured in the ' Botany of 

 the Voyage of the French Frigate Bonite,' a work which is 

 unfortunately unaccompanied by descriptive matter ; it there 

 bears the generic name of Pivonneava, which is probably 

 synonymous with Beer's Hoplophytum, founded on a group of 

 Achmeas with rigid spinescent foliage, branched inflores- 

 cence, an ovoid ovary crowned with the subulate calyx-teeth, 

 ^n almost closed perianth, and erect petals. 



Beer, in the above-quoted work, confounds this with the 

 #• augustam {Tillandsia augusta, Arrab. Fl. Flum. t. 135), a 

 Pfant with woollv inflorescence, and much smaller flowers, 

 according to the figure. 



OCTOBER 1st. 1867." \ 



