166 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS iECHMEA. 



deltoid cusiDidate bract at its base and another similar one sub- 

 tending tlie ovary. Ovary including the calyx three eighths of an 

 inch long ; sepals small, deltoid, with a distinct erecto-patent 

 CUSX3. Petals violet, one-eighth of an inch longer than the sepals. 

 — Venezuela, near Tovar, FeiuUer, 2453 ! The true panLculujeya has 

 a bipinnate panicle, and the flowers are not pedicellate. 



25. yE. KAMOSA, Mart. ; Schultes fil., Syst. Yeg., vii., 1272. — 

 Leaves lorate cuspidate, above a foot long, under two inches 

 broad, minutely serrate. Flowers in a tripinnate xDanicle, the 

 lower branches nine inches long, subtended by large lanceolate 

 bracts, the racliis red, the tertiary branchlets crowded, flexuose, at 

 most an inch long, two- to four-flowered. Flower-bracts round- 

 ovate, one-sixth to one-fifth of an inch long, w^itli a short brown 

 mucro. Calyx including sepals one-third of an inch long ; ovary 

 globose ; sepals deltoid mucronate, sph'ally twisted, as long as the 

 ovary. Petals j^ellow, half an inch long. — Brazil, in the province 

 of Minas Geraes, Martins. 



26. iE. PYRAMiDALis, Beiitk., Bot. Sulph., 173 ; Walp. Ann. 

 i,, 838. Hohenberiiia pyramidalis, Baker in Eef. Bot., sub. t. 284. 

 — Leaves lanceolate, two feet or more long, two inches broad at 

 the middle, narrowed gradually to the point, armed with close 

 curved brown horny spines which towards the base of the leaf are 

 one-quarter to one-third of an inch long. Scape including the 

 panicle four feet long, its lanceolate bracts half a foot long. 

 Flowers in an ample tripinnate panicle, the side branches deflexed, 

 peduncled, the lowest half a foot long, subtended by large lanceo- 

 late bracts. Primary branches multifarious, two to three inches 

 diameter, the ultimate branchlets one inch to one inch and a half 

 long, not zigzag, densely many-flowered. Flower-bracts deltoid 

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

 including ovary three-eighths of an inch long ; sepals lanceolate, 

 rather longer than the ovary, not mucronate. Petals one -eighth 

 of an inch longer than the sepals. — Columbia, Cuminfj, 1178! 

 Guayaquil, S'mc/«n-. (Herb. Kew.) Woods of Atamacas, Barclay^ 

 782 ! (Herb. Mus. Brit.) A plant in the Kew herbarium, gathered 

 by Edmonstone in Columbia, with a much smaller and less com- 

 pound panicle and thinner leaves with smaller prickles, is probably 

 a distinct si3ecies. 



27. M. PLATYNEMA, Baker. — Plronncava p/rti^?j^?>?r/, Gaudich., 

 Atlas Bonite, tab. 6-4. — Hohenhenjia jdati/nema, Baker in Fief. Bot., 

 sub. t. 284. — Whole plant reaching a height of six to ten feet. 

 Leaves two to three feet long, live to six inches broad above the 

 base, lorate, apex deltoid with a cusp, the close horny teeth one- 

 eighth to one- sixth of an inch long in the lower x)art of the leaf. 

 Panicle ample, tripinnate, the lower racemes reaching a foot in 

 length, two to three inches broad when expanded, the tertiary 

 branches slender, very flexuose, few-flowered. Flower-bracts 

 coriaceous, round-cordate, with a lamina one-quarter to one-third 

 of an inch long, and a very distinct pungent mucro. Calyx 

 including the ovary half a inch long ; sepals lanceolate, as long as 



