234 A SVXOPSIS Ul<' THE GENUS .ECiniEA. 



not yet published. — Tillamhia tctnistachia, Veil. El. Flum., iii. t. 

 1S7 {Hophqihi/tJi))) tetrastich !ju))i, Beer, Brom., 137j, may be a rude 

 drawing of this si^ecies with au accidentally compound spike. 



52. jE. comata, Baker. — Fothiiava cotnata, Gaudich., Atl. Bonite, 

 1. 116. — Hojiloj/Jnjtioncomatwn, Beer, Bvom., 140. — Leaves lanceolate, 

 about two feet long, narrowed to the point, minutely toothed. 

 Scape above a foot long, with many adpressed lanceolate bract- 

 leaves. Flowers in a dense oblong spike about three inches long, 

 two inches in diameter. Flower-bracts lanceolate, acute, as long 

 as the calyx. Calyx with ovary half an inch long ; ovary oblong- 

 trigonous, furfuraceous ; sepals lanceolate, cuspidate. — South 

 America. Known only from Gaudichaud's figure. 



53. yE. coNTRACTA, Baker. — BiUhenjia contracta, Mart.; Schultes 

 fil., Syst. Veg., vii., 1263. — Leaves w^ith a dilated utricular base 

 and a lanceolate lamina one foot and a half to two feet long, nine 

 to fifteen lines broad, the lower edge-spines one -twelfth to one-sixth 

 of an inch long, the upper smaller. • Scape one foot and a half to 

 two feet long, purplish, its bract-leaves tinted red-purple, the upper 

 ones toothed, tw^o and a half to three and a half inches long. 

 Flowers in an oblong spike three to four inches long, with a flexuose 

 tomentose rachis. Flower-bracts ovate-acuminate, entire, one- 

 thu'd of an inch to half an inch long. Sepals lanceolate, one-third 

 of an inch long, obtuse or sub-acute. Petals orange-yellow, twice 

 as long as the sepals. — Brazil in the Amazon province, at Arara- 

 coara and Porto das Miranhas, Martius. 



54. M. NUDicAULis, Griseb., Flor. Brit. West. Ind, 593. — 

 Bromelia nudicaulis, Linn. Sp., 409 ; Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 143. — 

 Billberyia nudicaulis, Lindl. Bot. Reg., sub. t. 1068. — Hohenheryia 

 nudicauUs, Baker in Ref. Bot., sub. t. 284. — Bromelia liitea, 

 Meyer Esseq., 145. — BUlhergia lutea, Schultes fil., Syst. Veg., vii., 

 1258. — B. pijramidata, Beer, Brom., 123. — Hoplophytum vudicanle, 

 K. Koch ; E. Morren, Cat.," 1873, 9. — H. lamKjinosum, Beer, Brom., 

 138. — Leaves with a dilated entire base three to four inches broad 

 and a lorate lamina one to two feet long, two to three inches broad 

 at the middle, rounded at the tip to a small cusp, the close horny 

 dark coloured edge-teeth one-twelfth to one-eighth of an inch long. 

 Scaj)e a foot or more long, with several large lanceolate red bract- 

 leaves. Flowers in a dense simple cylindrical spike two to six inches 

 long, one inch to one inch and a half in diameter. Flower-bracts 

 very minute. Calyx including ovary half an inch to five-eighths 

 of an inch long ; sepals as long as the ovary, oblong-lanceolate, 

 minutely mucronate. Petals pale yellow, one -sixth of an inch 

 longer than the sepals.— Cuba, C. Wriyht, 673 ! 1524 ! Trinadad, 

 Schacht I Columbia, ('ituiiwj! Guiana, Meyer, Parker! Appun I 

 Eio Janeiro, (Haziou, 7501 ! Litroduced mto cultivation about 

 1825. Var. ft. cmpidata, ]3aker. — PotJiuava spicata, Gaudich. Atl. 

 Bonite, t. 117. — lloplopliytum spicatum, Beer, Brom., 140. — 

 Hohenheryia spicata, Baker in Ref. Bot., sub. t. 284. Teeth of 

 leaves large and horny. Flower-bracts minute ; sej)als furnished 

 with a distinct pungent cusp. — South Brazil in the province of St. 



