iECHMEA. 47 



Hab. Jamaica ; on trees near the Dolphin, Purdie I Gathered in 1844. 

 An allied plant, in a very young state, has been gathered by Baron Eggers in 

 Dominica. 



47. M. PHANEKOPHLEBiA Baker. — Leaves lorate, 2i ft. long, 4 in. 

 broad at the dilated base, 2 in. at the middle, rigidly coriaceous, 

 subglabrous, narrowed to the point, teeth very minute. Inflores- 

 cence a bipinnate or tripinnate panicle ; ultimate clusters strobili- 

 form, few-flowered, ^ in. diam., sessile ; flower-bracts ovate, naked, 

 prominently ribbed, ^ in. long, with a large mucro. Calyx with 

 ovary ^ in. long ; sepals longer than the ovary, obtuse, v/ith a large 

 mucro. Petal-blade oblong, ^ in. long. 



Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 16412 ! Near JE. distans. 



48. M. KiDLEYi Baker. — Whole plant 4-5 ft. high. Leaves 

 lorate, thinly lepidote, 2 ft. long, 2 in. broad at the middle, armed 

 with small black slender spreading teeth. Liflorescence a narrow 

 panicle above a foot long, the lower branches consisting of 5-6 

 glomerate spikes at most an inch long, clustered at the end of a 

 short peduncle ; flower-bracts ovate-cuspidate, furfuraceous, ^ in. 

 long. Calyx with ovary shorter than the flower- bract. Petal- 

 blade purple, I in. long. 



Hab. Pernambuco, Ridley d- Ramage ! (Herb. Mus. Brit.). Near jE. 

 augusta. 



49. ^. ERiANTHA Brong. inedit. — Leaves rigid, lorate, 2-3 ft. 

 long, nearly naked on both surfaces, 1^ in. broad at the middle, 

 8 in. at the dilated base; marginal spines minute. Inflorescence a 

 panicle of numerous subglobose heads ^ in. diam., with 6-8 flowers 

 in each ; flower-bracts ovate-cuspidate, thinly white-lepidote on the 

 back, l-J in. long. Ovary with calyx J in. long; sepals ovate, 

 mucronate. Petal-blade minute. 



Hab. Pernambuco. Described from a specimen from the Paris Garden, 

 dried by Brogniart in Oct., 1851. Near jE. augusta. 



50. M. AUGUSTA Baker in. Journ. Bot. 1879, 162. Tillandda au- 

 gusta Veil. Fl. Flum. iii. t. 135. Hoplophytum augustmn Beer, Brom. 

 136. Hohenhergia augusta^. ^otiqh, Cat. 1873, 9 (M.D.). Pironneava 

 glomerata Gaudich. Atlas Bonite, t. 63. H.ferruginea Carriere in Eev. 

 Hort. 1881, 437, fig. 104. Nidularium fragrans and Guzmannia macu- 

 lata Hort. — Leaves 12-20 in a utricular rosette, lorate from an ovate 

 base, 2-3 ft. long, 2|~3 in. broad at the middle, plain green, 

 slightly mottled on the face, obscurely lepidote, not banded on the 

 back, rounded to a cusp at the tip, horny in texture, all the 

 marginal teeth minute. Peduncle 1^ ft. long ; bract-leaves lan- 

 ceolate, adpressed, pale. Inflorescence lax, 9-12 in. long, the 

 clusters globose, 1-1-|- in. diam., all sessile on the main rachis or 

 the lower peduncled ; flower-bracts ovate, acute, greenish, ^-^ in. 

 long. Calyx including ovary ^-J in. long ; sepals ovate, minutely 

 mucronate. Petals whitish, twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. South Brazil ; Santa Catherina, Gaudich. 128 ! Flowered at Liege in 

 1870. It is closely allied to JE. glomerata, but the flower-bracts are much 

 smaller, and not brightly coloured. It is the plant on which Gaudichaud's 

 genus Pironneava was founded. 



