OCHAGAVIA. 19 



in a dense head in the centre of the rosette ; flower-bracts lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, spine ciliated, reddish, 1^-1 i in. long. Ovary 

 obloug, glabrous, ^iu. long; calyx-limb nearly an inch long, the 

 tube nearly as long as the oblong mucronate segments. Petals 

 bright red, little longer than the calyx-segments, 



Hab, Brazil and Uraguay. Introduced into cultivation about 1860. De- 

 scribed from a plant that flowered in the Cactus-house at Kew, Feb., 1875, sent 

 by Dr. Eegel. Var. subexserta Hegel, is a form with a short peduncle to the 

 sj)ike. 



2. 0. Legrelleana Baker. Hohenhergm LegrelHana Baker in 

 Saund. Eef. Bot. t. 285. — A^chmea Leijrelliana Baker in Journ. Bot. 

 1879, 236. O. palleulata E. Morren, Cat. 1871, 2 (^M.D.).— Leaves 

 about 20 in a rosette, ensiform from an oblong base, 1-1^ ft. long, 

 an inch broad at the middle, firm in texture, arcuate, acuminate, 

 plain green on the channelled face, thinly lepidote on the back, 

 with small deltoid spreading marginal spines. Peduncle central, 

 ^ ft. long, its leaves like those of the rosette, but smaller. Inflor- 

 escence a dense erect oblong spike 2-3 in. long ; flower-bracts 

 ascending, bright red, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, reaching to the 

 top of the calyx. Ovary glabrous, f in. long; calyx-limb ^ in. 

 long, the lanceolate mucronate segments three times as long as the 

 tube. Petals lingulate, reddish purple, ^ in. longer than the calyx- 



Hab. Uraguay, Gilbert 1414] Introduced into cultivation about 185G. 

 Is in Herb. Reg. Berol. named by Klotzseh Macrochordiiim recurvatiim. Described 

 from plants that flowered with Mr. Wilson Saunders at Eeigate about 1870, and 

 Sir George Maeleay at Pendell Court, in Feb-, 1884. 



7. GCHAGAVIA PhilipfiL 



Sepals linear, united in a tube above the ovary. Petals oMan- 

 ceolate-unguiculate, a little longer than the sepals, spreading only 

 at the tip. Stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx-tube ; 

 filaments long, filiform ; anthers linear, dorsifixed. Ovary inferior, 

 ampullaeform, laterally compressed, 3-oelled ; ovules many in a 

 cell ; style filiform, faintly 3-lobed at the top. Fruit large, coria- 

 ceous, indehiscent, compressed laterally. Seeils large, globose. 



1. 0. ELEGANs Pkilippi in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, viL 107. — 

 Leaves densely packed on a stem G-8 in. long, lanceolate, rigidly 

 coriaceous, spreading, 3-4 in. long, |^ in. broad at the base, green 

 and glabrous on the face, white-lepidote beneath, armed on the 

 edge with small deltoid spines. Flowers in a globose central 

 terminal capitulum ; outer bracts oblongs spine-edged, 1| in. long. 

 Ovary, including its neck, an inch long ; segments j in. long. 

 Petals rose-red, an inch longer than the calyx. 



Hab. Juan Fernandez, Philijij^i 941 J (Herb- Berol.). 



8. Fernseea Bakei\ 



Sepals linear -oblong, obtuse, not cuspidate, united in a short 

 cup above the ovary. Petals lingulate, not scaled at the base, little 

 longer than the sepals. Stamens inserted at the throat of the 



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