BROMELIACEA. 315 
6. Aichmea schiedeana, Schl. in Linnea, xviii. p. 437; Baker in Journ. Bot. 
1879, p. 168. 
_ Sovura Mexico, Hacienda de la Laguna (Schiede). 
Baker suggests that this may be the same as 4. laxiflora. 
7. Aschmea spectabilis, Brongn. in Rev. Hort. 1875, p. 311; Baker in Journ. 
Bot. 1879, p. 165. 
Pironneava spectabilis, K. Koch, ex E. Morr. Cat. 1873, p. 18. 
GUATEMALA. 
8. Adchmea vriesioides, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 134. 
Nicaracua, Mosquito coast (Capt. Miller, 1774).—Gutana. 
5, BILLBERGIA. 
Billbergia, Thunb. Dec. Pl. Bras. p. 80, ex Schultes; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 664. 
About twenty species in Tropical America, chiefly in Brazil. 
1. Billbergia pallidiflora, Liebm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hafn. 1854, p. 26. 
NICARAGUA. 
6. PITCAIRNIA. 
Pitcairnia, Lhér. Sert. Angl. p. 7, t.11; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 665; Baker in Journ. 
Bot. 1881, p. 225. 
About seventy species spread over Tropical America from Mexico and the West 
Indies to Peru, Bolivia, and South Brazil. 
1. Pitcairnia atrorubens, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 307. 
Phlomostachys atrorubens, Beer, Bromel. p. 48. 
Puya warscewiczii, Wendl. in Bot. Mag. t. 5225. 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Warscewicz). 
9. Pitcairnia echinata, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4709; Baker in Journ. Bot. 1881, 
p- 272; Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 407; FI. des Serres, t. 844. 
Mexico? CoLoMBIA. 
3. Pitcairnia elata, Liebm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hafn. 1849, p. 14; Walp. Ann. 
vi. p. 91. 
MEXICO. 
Baker (Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 270) states that the description of this plant agrees, as 
far as it goes, with P. albiflos, a Brazilian species. 
4. Pitcairnia ferruginea, Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. et Chil. iii. p. 36; Baker in 
Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 304. 
Pitcairnia asterotricha, Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. t. 158. 
Puya grandiflora, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5234. 
