164 A SYNOPSIS OF THE CxENUS .ECHMEA. 



horny in texture, rounded at the tip with a distinct cusp, minutely 

 toothed. Scape one foot and a lialf, sheathed by many pale large 

 lanceolate adpressed bract-leaves. Panicle . one foot and a half 

 long, nearly a foot broad at the base, composed of numerous 

 spreading branches subtended by large lanceolate bracts and ending 

 in dense oblong multifarious spikes about an inch long. Flower- 

 bracts ovate-la,nceolate, navicular, three-eighths to half an inch 

 long, striated, distinctly mucronate. Calyx including the ovary 

 three-eighths of an inch long ; sepals lanceolate-cuspidate, as long 

 as the compressed ovary. Petals pale, twice as long as the sepals. 

 — Jamaica, Piirdie I 



19. M. LiNGULATA, Baker. Bromelia Umjulata, Linn. Sp., 409 

 (Burm. Ic. Plum., t. 64) ; Miller, Diet., edit, vi.. No. 2. — Hoplo- 

 phj/twn Ihuiidatiuu, Beer, Brom., 139. — Lamjirococcus ramosus, Beer, 

 Brom., 106. — ClwcaUicni liiiguhita, Griseb., Flor. Brit. West Ind., 

 591. — Leaves with a dilated oblong base four to five inches broad, 

 and lorate ol)tuse cuspidate lamina about two feet long, two inches 

 broad at the middle, with close minute brovv^i teeth. Peduncle 

 one foot and a half to two feet long, with distant lanceolate pale 

 bract-leaves. Panicle a foot long, consisting of thirty to forty 

 dense oblong multifarious heads about an inch long, the lowest 

 only with short peduncles, subtended by lanceolate bracts one inch 

 to two inches long. Flower-bracts coriaceous, striated, deltoid 

 cuspidate, one-quarter to one-third of an inch long. Calyx 

 including the ovary one -third of an inch long ; ovary very much 

 compressed on the side nearest the axis ; seiDals deltoid, mucronate. 

 Petals pale, twice as long as the sepals. — Jamaica, Ilobhis ! (Herb. 

 Mus. Brit.) Also Antigua, Guadeloupe, and Guiana, according to 

 Grisebach. Not known to me as alive at the present time in 

 England. Miller, in 1771, gives it as a garden plant, and I 

 have seen it from the Berlin garden in the herbarium of Dr. 

 Karl Koch. 



20. ^E. poLYCEPHALA, Ikiker. — Leaves not seen. Flowers in a 

 compound spike about a foot long, composed of thirtj^ to forty sub- 

 globose sessile dense multifarious heads under an inch long, the 



J branch-bracts of the lower exceeding, of the upper as long as the 

 heads. Flower-bracts round-deltoid, navicular, firm and rigid in 

 texture, not striated, minutely cuspidate, one-half an inch long 

 and broad. Ovary with calyx three-eighths of an inch long ; 

 ovary globose, furfuraceous, much flattened on the side nearest the 

 axis ; sepals deltoid, as long as the ovary, not mucronate. Petals 

 not seen. — Jamaica, Dr. ]Vri//Iit! (Herb. Mus. Brit.) A close ally 

 of A'j. lini/uldta, from which it difters in its much larger flower- 

 bracts of more rigid texture and- sessile spikes. 



21. yE. PANicuLATA, Ihit::. lO Par., Fl.Peruv., iii., 37, t.264; Beer, 

 Brom., 11, fig. 4a. — Leaves twenty to thirty in a lax rosette, the 



\ outer ones short, the central ones longest, lanceolate, above a foot 

 long, one inch and a half .to two inches broad, narrowed gradually 

 to the point, the close horny teeth one- sixth to one-quarter of an 

 inch long. Scape lateral, much shorter than the ample panicle, 



