228 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS ^CHMEA. 



flowers and subteuded by red lanceolate bract-leaves longer tlian 

 themselves ; flower-bracts coriaceous, navicular, lanceolate-deltoid, 

 a quarter of an inch long, with a distinct mucro. Calyx including 

 ovary half an inch long ; sepals lanceolate, as long as the ovary, 

 distinctly mucronate. Petals twice as long as the sepals. 

 — Columbia, Cuminy, 1178, ex purte ! (Herb. Kew.) 



36. M. suBiNERMis, Baker, n. sp.— ^Leaves about twenty in a 

 rosette, with a dilated oblong base two inches broad, and a 

 lanceolate lamina narrowed gradually to the x^oint, three-quarters 

 to one inch broad at the middle, thin in texture for the genus, the 

 the edge furnished witii only a few minute deltoid prickles near the 

 base. Scape about a foot long, with several red ascending 

 lanceolate bract-leaves about two inches long. Flowers in a dense 

 oblong-thyrsoid bipiunate panicle about three inches long, the 

 lower branches subtended by red lanceolate bracts one to two 

 inches long : central branches one inch to one inch and a half long, 

 five- to six-flowered ; their rachises zigzag and glabrous ; flowers 

 sessile, subtended by an orbicular flower-bract one-sixth to one fifth 

 of an inch long and broad, without a cusp. Calyx including ovary 

 half an inch long ; sepals deltoid, one-eighth of an inch long, not 

 mucronate. Petals not seen. — Pdo Janeu-o, Glaziou, 9326 ! 

 (Herb. Kew.) 



37. M. ccELESTis, Baker. — Hohenhenjia cnlcstis, Baker in Ref. 

 Bot., t. 284. — Hoplophytumcnleste, K. Koch ; E. Morren, Cat., 1873, 

 9. — Leaves ten to twelve in a rosette, with a dilated entire oblong 

 base three inches broad, and a horny lorate lamina one foot to one 

 foot and a half long, one inch and a half to two inches broad at the 

 middle, the tip deltoid- cuspidate, the edge furnished with close 

 minute deltoid horny teeth. Scape a foot long, with many erect 

 lanceolate bract-leaves, the upper ones tinted red. Flowers in a 

 dense deltoid bipinnate i)anicle three to five inches long, two to 

 three inches broad, with stout floccose rachises, the lower branches 

 four- to six-flowered, ascending or subpatent, subtended by red 

 lanceolate branch-bracts an inch long. Flower-bracts deltoid- 

 cuspidate, half as long as the ovary. Calj'x with ovar}' white- 

 floccose, about half an inch long. Sepals deltoid, with a distinct 

 mucro. Petals liugulate, blue, three-eighths of an inch to half an 

 inch long. — South America, the precise country not known. Well 

 known in cultivatiou for many years. I suspect it will j)rove to be 

 identical with Billbergiapaniculuta, Mart. ; Schultesfil., Syst. Veg., 

 vii., 1268. A native of the upper Amazon. 



38. JE. suAVEOLENs, Knowlcs d West., Floral Cab., iii., 177, t. 

 134. — Billbrri/ia purpureo-rosea, Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 3304. — 

 HoplojJir/Uon suavcolens and purpureo-roseum. Beer, Brom., 135. — 

 Bromelia albo-rosea, Lemaire, 111. Hort., 1855, misc. 64. — Leaves 

 with a dilated ovate entire utricular base four to five inches long, and 

 a lorate horny lamina one foot and a half to two feet long, two 

 inches broad at the middle, with a deltoid-cuspidate tip and close 

 moderately largo pr-r.gcnt deltoid horny teeth up to the top. 

 Scape one foot and a half to two. feet long, with many small 



