314 BROMELIACEA, 
3. ANANAS. 
Ananas, Adans. Fam. ii. p. 67; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 662. 
Five or six species in Tropical America, or, if some of the distincter cultivated forms 
be regarded as species, as many as eight or ten. 
1. Ananas sativus, Schultes in Roem. et Schalt. Syst. Veg. vii. 2, p. 1283. 
Ananassa sativa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1068; DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. et Hist. Nat. Genéve, vii. 
p. 161, tt. 1 et 2; Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,’ p. 215; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p- 591; 
Desc. Fl. Antill. tt. 36 et 341. | | 
Panama, apparently wild in various parts of the country, generally in dry localities 
on the outskirts of woods (Seemann). 
This has been in general cultivation in the hotter parts of America for a very long 
period, and it is widely spread in a wild state; but it is impossible in all cases to decide 
whether it is indigenous or an escape from cultivation. It is also so thoroughly 
naturalized in some parts of the Old World as to have all the appearance of being 
indigenous. 
4, AACHMEA. 
Aichmea, Ruiz et Pav. Prodr. p. 47, t. 8; Syst. Veg. p. 83, et Fl. Peruv. et Chil. iii. p. 37, t. 264 3 
Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 129. 
A genus of about sixty species, ranging from Mexico and the West Indies to 
Paraguay and South Brazil. 
1, Aichmea dactylina, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 161. 
Panama, Chagres (Fendler, 450). Hb. Kew. 
2. Aichmea laxiflora, Benth. Bot. Voy. ‘Sulphur,’ p. 173; Baker in Journ. 
Bot. 1879, p. 167. 
Hohenbergia laxiflora, Baker in Refug. Bot. sub t. 284. 
Aloe americana arboribus innascens, Rel. Houst. ed. Banks, t. 16. 
Bromelia bracteata, Schultes in Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. vii. 2, p. 1280, pro parte. 
South Mexico, Vera Cruz (Houston), Yucatan (Schott), Acapulco (Sinclair). 
Hb. Kew. 
3. Aichmea mariz-regine, Wendl. in Hamb. Gart. Zeit. xix. p- 32; Baker 
in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 162; Bot. Mag. t. 6441. 
Costa Rica, cultivated specimens only in Kew herbarium. 
4. Aichmea mexicana, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 165. 
SoutH MeExioo, region of Orizaba (Bourgeau, 3106). Hb. Kew. 
5. Aichmea pubescens, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 135. 
Nicaraaua (Tate, 416); Panama, Chagres (Fendiler, 449), without locality (Seemann). 
Hb. Kew. 
