Tab. 5842. 

 HECHTIA? Ghiesbreghtii. 



Ghiesbreghfs Hechtia. 



Nat. Ord. Bromeliace,e. — Hexandeia Trigynia. 



Gen. Char. — Flores diaeci. Masc. . . . Fem. Perigonii ima basi ovario 

 mferne adnati sexpartiti lacinia? exteriores calycinse basi connatae, eequales, 

 ovatae, concavse, erectae ; interiores corollinaj, libera?, exterioribus duplo 

 longiores, ovato-lanceolatas, concavas, erects, basi nudse. Staminum rudi- 

 menta 6, subulata, libera. Ovarium ima basi adnatum, pyramidali- 

 trigonum. Stylus brevissimus ; stigmata 3, subulata, superne papillosa, 

 patentia, demum erecto-subcontorta. Fructus ? — Herba mexicana, perennis ; 

 caudice subnudo ; foliis congestis, subulato-linearibus, longissimis, crassis, 

 serrato-spinosis, pungentibus, patenti recurvis ; scapo sexpedali, floribus parvis, 

 in spicam compositam dispositis, sessilibus, patentibus, bracteis membranaceis, 

 aridis, minutis suffultis. — Endl. 



Hechtia ? Ghiesbreghtii, foliis confertissimis rosulatis patenti-recurvis crasse 

 coriaceis e basi lata sensim in apicem pungentem angustatis supra con- 

 cavis enerviis viridibus ultra medium rubro-purpureis, marginibua 

 breviter subremote spinoso-dentatis, subtus argenteis convexis linearis, 

 scapis axillaribus gracillimis elongatis furfuraceis multi-bracteatis, 

 floribus albis in fasciculos parvos remotos congestis, bracteolis minutis 

 cucullatis. 



Hechtia? Ghiesbreghtii, Lemaire, V Illustration Horticole, v. x. p. 378. 



The genus Hechtia was originally founded by Klotzsch of 

 Berlin in 1835, upon a female specimen of a very imperfectly 

 known Mexican plant, respecting which nothing has subse- 

 quently been published, and which would appear to differ 

 from the plant here figured, in the wholly superior ovary 

 and apparently unisexual flowers. To this genus the 1L 

 Ghiesbreghtii was doubtfully added by Lemaire in the year 

 1862, and described as having six subdidynamous stamens 

 jcxe 1st, 1870. 



