232 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS .ECflMEA. 



broad, and a lanceolate minutely-toothed lamina one inch and a 

 half to two inches broad, of moderately firm texture, with a deltoid- 

 cuspidate tip. Scape three inches long, quite hidden by its 

 lanceolate bract-leaves. Flowers in a dense globose head one inch 

 and a half to two inches long and broad, its base-bracts 'not over- 

 topping it. Flower-bracts lanceolate or deltoid, membranous, 

 toothed at the margin, six to nine lines long, the lower reaching to 

 the top of the sepals, the upper shorter. Calyx including ovary 

 above half an inch long. Sepals yellow, lanceolate, longer than 

 the ovary, minutely cuspidate. Petals not seen. — South Brazil in 

 the province of St. Paulo near Cubatao, Burchell, 3487 ! and near 

 Santos, Biu-chell, 3323 ! (Herb. Kew.) 



47. M. CALYCULATA, Baker. — Hohenheryia cabjculata, Baker in 

 Ref. Bot., t. 286. — Hophjphijtum. calyculatum, E. Morren in Belg. 

 Hort., 1865., 162, t. 11, — Macrochordium luteum, Piegel Gartenfl., 

 1867, 161, t. 544.— .11. midmsculum, K. Koch, Woclien. 1864, 176.— 

 Leaves ten to twelve in a rosette, with a dilated oblong base three 

 to four inches long, two and a half to three inches broad, 

 and a lorate lamina about a foot long, moderately firm in texture, 

 rounded at the tip to a small cusp, minutely toothed all down the 

 edge. Scape shorter than the leaves, floccose, with several 

 deciduous lanceolate bract-leaves. ' Flowers forty to sixty in a dense 

 globose head an inch and a half long and above an inch in diameter, 

 its base-bracts small and linear. Flower-bracts small, entire, 

 reddish, lanceolate-acuminate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx 

 including ovary one-thu'd of an inch to half an inch long ; sepals 

 deltoid, with a cusp as long as the lamina. Petals Ungulate, bright 

 yellow, under half an inch long. — South America, the exact country 

 not known. Introduced into cultivation about 1862. 



48. M. PiNELiANA, Baker. — Echinostaclujs Pineliana, A. Brong. ; 

 Planch. Hort.Donat., 25 ; Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 5321; Beer,Brom., 

 148. — Fj. rosea, Beer, Brom., 149. — Macrocliordimn Finelianum, 

 Lemah-e, 111. Hort., ix.. Misc. 62. — Leaves twelve to fifteen in a 

 rosette, with a dilated clasping base three to four inches broad and 

 an ensiform lamina about a foot long, one inch and a quarter to 

 one inch and a half broad at the middle, of moderately firm texture, 

 narrowed to the point, the crowded spreading horny lower edge- 

 prickles one-quarter of an inch long, those of the middle of the 

 leaf one -eighth of an inch, the face slightly lepidote and the back 

 more so. Scape about as long as the leaves, with numerous large 

 lanceolate adi^ressed bract-leaves, the uj)pcr ones tinged red. 

 Flowers in a dense oblong spicate head two to three inches long, 

 about an inch in diameter. Flower-bracts with a coriaceous 

 deltoid lamina one-eighth of an inch long, and a j)ungent stramin- 

 eous cusp as long as the lamina. Calyx including ovary three- 

 eighths to half an inch long ; sepals deltoid, with a cusj) as long as 

 the lamina. Ovules three to four in a cell, horizontal, arising 

 from the top of the axile i^lacenta. Petals Imgulate, bright 

 yellow, half an inch long. — liio Janeiro. Well known in culti- 

 vation ; introduced about 1855. 



