162 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS .ECHMEA. 



12. M. SPH.^ROCEPHALA, Baker. — CheraJliera splurrocrpluda, 

 Gaudicli., Atl. Boiiite, tab. 61. Leaves ensiform, one and a half 

 to two feet or more long, two inches broad, narrowed to the point, 

 closely minutel}^ serrated. Scape stout, furnished with several 



^ large lanceolate ascending serrated bract-leaves. Flowers in a 

 {/ dense globose multifarious spike about half a foot in length and 

 breadth. Flower-bracts deltoid navicular, distinctly cuspdate, 

 about an inch long. Calyx including ovary about as long as the 

 bract ; sepals lanceolate cuspidate. — South America. Known to me 

 only from Gaudichaud's figure above cited, to .which the text has 

 never been published. 



13. M. 0RN\TA, leaker. — ChcvaJUera ontata, Gaudicli., Atlas 

 Bonite, tab. 62. — Eosette at the top of a short ]3roduced stem 

 sheathed by rudimentary leaves. Produced leaves with a dilated 



V entire oblong base and an ensiform lamina one and a half foot long, 

 an inch broad, narrow^ed to the i^oiut, minutely serrated. Flowers 

 in a dense oblong multifarious spike five to six inches long, two 

 inches in diameter, each flower clasped by an obovate navicular 

 obtuse bract half an inch long, with a ver}^ large mucro. Calyx 

 Tvith ovary about an inch long : sepals lanceolate, cusi:)idate, 

 shorter than the ovary. — South America. Like the last, known 

 only from Gaudichaud's figure. 



14. M. Mari^-regin^, H. Wendl. in Hamb. Gartenzeit., ix. 

 (1863), 32; Kegel Gartenfl., xih. (1864), 152 ; Floral Mag., n. s., 

 t. 8. — Leaves fifteen to tw^enty hi a rosette, with a dilated oblong 

 base three to four inches broad and. a lanceolate lamina, two to 



^ three feet long, two to three inches broad at the middle, thinly white- 

 'lejiidote on both surfaces, tinted purple, texture moderately firm ; tip 

 lanceolate-deltoid; j)rickles deltoid-cuspidate, half to one line long. 

 Scape about a foot long, very stout, stifily erect, clothed with 

 white tomentum, its numerous bright crimson lanceolate reflcxing 

 bract-leaves three to five inches long, toothed at the margin. 

 Flowers in a dense oblong spike three to four inches long. Flow^er- 

 bracts minute, subulate from a deltoid 'base. Calyx including 

 ovary half an inch long ; se2)als very mealy, much imbricated, 

 obtuse, with an erecto-patent white horny cusj). Petals lingulate, 

 half as long again as the sepals, blue at the tip w^hen young, 

 fading to the same crimson as the bracts. — Costa Piica. De- 

 .scribed from a plant that flowered with Mr. B. M. Williams at 

 Holloway, in April, 1879. 



15. M'. AUGUSTA, Jj((/,er. — lAllandshi aui/ustd, Vell.Fl. Flum., iii., 

 t. 135. — Fluplop}u/t7im aiujustum, Beer, Brom., 136. — Hohcnbm/ia 

 (iiKfustd, E. Morren, Cat. 1873,9. — Fironneaiui (/loiiwrata, Gaudicli., 

 Atlas Bonite, t. 63. — Leaves lorate, three to four feet long, four to 

 five inches broad, minutely serrated, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip. 

 Peduncle about a foot long, sheathed by several lanceolate scariose 

 bract-leaves. Flowers in a deltoid panicle a foot long, the lower 

 branches long and erecto-patent, the ultimate spikes dense, 

 multifarious, globose, sessile or pcduncled, an inch in diameter. 

 Flower-l)racts deltoid, one-quarter to one-third of an inch long. 



