(No. 625) on the Cerro de Maxeana, in the province of 
Yucatan. The plant forms a very interesting addition to 
our small stock of Bromeliads from the subtemperate zone, 
which can be grown under the same conditions as ordinary 
Aloes, Agaves, and Cacti. | 
Descr. Rosette sessile, four feet in diameter. Leaves 
about a hundred, very thick and rigid in texture, arching 
but slightly, linear, two feet long, an inch and a half broad, 
and half an inch thick at the base, tapering gradually to a 
pungent point, dull green, smooth, shining, and nearly flat 
on the face, white, with fine vertical lines down the convex 
back, armed down the edges with pungent falcate deltoid- 
cuspidate brown horny prickles, half to one inch apart. 
Peduncle stout, erect, about two feet long, furnished with 
several linear subscariose bract-like leaves. Flowers poly- 
gamous, arranged in an ample panicle five or six feet long, 
with very numerous spreading cylindrical shortly-peduncled 
branches, the upper ones simple, the lower with a couple 
of short branchlets from the base; pedicels very short, 
subtended at the base by a minute deltoid membranous 
bract ; main spikes four to six inches long, not more than 
half an inch in diameter when expanded ; rachis green, 
sulcate, obscurely pilose. Perianth white, not more than 
an eighth of an inch long; sepals oblong-deltoid, greenish, 
half as long as the oblong petals. Stamens in the specimen 
figured fully developed, a little exserted ; filaments subulate ; 
anthers minute, oblong, versatile. Ovary rudimentary, with 
three distinct styles —J. G. Baker. 
Fig.1, a closed flower; 2, an open flower ; 3,a flower cut down the middle ; 4, 5, 
two views of the anther; 5, 6, rudimentary pistil of the male plant :—all more or 
less magnified, 
