318 -BROMELIACEA, 
texture, the largest 11 to 2 feet long by # inch broad, clothed on both sides with a 
dense coat of a persistent tomentum, beneath which the surface is green, fine ribs visible 
on both sides through the tomentum; pungent, spreading, uncinate, horny marginal 
spines + to 3 inch apart and 3 to 4 lines long; inflorescence a lax spike with small white 
flowers in globose clusters. 
“Very near H. ghiesbreghtit, but that has leaves green above, growing bright purple 
in the upper part.” 
2. Hechtia cordylinoides, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6554. 
Mexico. Cultivated specimens only in Kew herbarium. 
3. Hechtia ghiesbreghtii, Lemaire, Ill. Hort. x. t. 378; Bot. Mag. t. 5842. 
MEXICO. 
Bentham & Hooker (Gen. Plant. /. c.) suggest that this is the same as H. glomerata. 
4. Hechtia glomerata, Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Miinch. iii. p. 240, t. 6. 
Dasylirion pitcairniefolium, Zucc. in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gart. Zeit. 1838, p. 258. 
Mexico (Karwinskt). . 
5. Hechtia schottii, Baker, n. sp. 
“Leaf thick, rigid, lanceolate, 18 inches long by $ to £ broad at base exclusive of 
prickles, tapering to a long point; face naked; back white striped; prickles brown, 
horny, distant, large, curved upwards, 4 to } inch long, apex pungent. Inflorescence 
a lax panicle with ascending branches and a floccose rhachis ; branches spicate, close at 
top, lax downwards ; bracts deltoid, cuspidate, lowest 3 to 4 inch long. Sepals oblong, 
half as long as capsule; petals not seen. Capsule 4 inch long, valves septicidal and 
split down the back.” —Baker MSS. 
Sourn Mexico, Cerro de Maxeana, Yucatan (Schott, 645). Hb. Brit. Mus. 
This differs from H. argentea and H. ghiesbreghtii in its densely spicate inflorescence. 
6. Hechtia stenopetala, Klotzsch in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gart. Zeit, 1835, 
p- 402. | 
South Mzxico, Cuesta Grande de Chiconquiaco (Schiede & Deppe). 
8. CARAGUATA. 
Caraguata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1068 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 668. 
Five species are recorded from the West Indies, Central America, and Colombia. 
1. Caraguata zahnii, Hook. f Bot. Mag. t. 6059; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 342, 
tt. 19 et 20. 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Zahn). 
