Tas. 60965. 
AECHMEA LINDENI. 
Native of South Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. BromMELIACEEZ.—Tribe BILLBERGIER. 
Genus Ecumea, Ruiz et Pavon; (Baker in Trimen Journ. Bot. N.S. vol. viii. 
p- 129.) 
Acura (Pothuava) Lindeni ; acaulis, cespitosa, foliis circiter 20 loratis rigidis 
erectis 2-3-pedalibus apice rotundatis minute cuspidatis facie viridibus canali- 
culatis dorso obscure lepidotis et lineatis margine aculeis minutis deltoideis 
ascendentibus armatis, pedunculo subpedali foliis pluribus parvis lanceolatis 
scariosis adpressis superioribus rubellis pradito, foribus multis in spicam 
densam oblongam simplicem aggregatis, bracteis membranaceis rubris inferi- 
oribus lanceolatis acutis calyce equilongis, ovario oblongo luteo glabro, se alis 
deltoideo-orbicularibus imbricatis distimcte oblique cuspidatis, petalis lingulatis 
citrinis sepalis duplo longioribus basi appendiculatis, genitalibus inclusis. 
. (Pothuava) Lindeni, Baker in Trimen Journ, N.S. vol. viii. (1879) p. 233. 
Hortopuytum Lindeni, EF. Morren. in Belg. Hort. vol. xv. (1865) p. 164; vol. 
xxili. (1873) p. 81, t.5; K. Kochin Wochenschrift, vol. viii. (1865) p. 398. — 
Next to Billbergia, Aichmea may fairly be considered the 
most effective genus of Bromeliads for decorative purposes. 
Of late years our knowledge of it has rapidly increased, 
and several fine new species have been brought into 
cultivation. Taking the genus in a broad sense, so as to 
include Hoplophytum, Echinostachys, Pothuava, and Canis- 
trum, as it is treated in my monograph in the Journal of 
Botany above cited, we know now not less than sixty 
species, so that next to Tillandsia it is the largest genus in 
the Natural Order. The present plant was distributed by 
Linden in 1865, and was received by him from M. Libon, 
who discovered it in the province of Santa Catherina in 
South Brazil. Our drawing was made from a plant 
presented to the Kew collection by Mr. J. i Peacock, 
which flowered in the palm-stove in March, 1879. It is a 
near ally of the plant figured by Gaudichaud (Atlas Bonite, 
Tab. 117) under the name of Pothuava spicata, which I 
JUNE lst, 1881. 
