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  s'agir 
  que 
  d'un 
  Aechmea 
  sect. 
  Macrochordium 
  dont 
  les 
  fruits, 
  il 
  

   est 
  vrai, 
  étaient 
  inconnus 
  avant 
  notre 
  publication 
  (in 
  Bull. 
  Hevb. 
  

   Boixs. 
  1907, 
  p. 
  156) 
  aux 
  botanistes 
  (cfr. 
  annot. 
  sub 
  Aechmea 
  

   pulchra 
  Mez 
  dans 
  notre 
  présente 
  publication). 
  

  

  .4. 
  macrodontes 
  Morr. 
  emend. 
  Hassler. 
  — 
  Descriptio 
  e 
  specimi- 
  

   nibus 
  spontaneis. 
  Cfr. 
  icon. 
  68 
  in 
  Vég. 
  Paro.g. 
  {A. 
  sativus 
  Chod. 
  

   etVischer, 
  haud 
  Schult. 
  fil,). 
  

  

  Folia 
  rosulata, 
  linearia, 
  basi 
  in 
  vaginam 
  elongatam 
  oblongam, 
  

   foliis 
  haud 
  latiorem 
  producta; 
  vagina 
  ad 
  H 
  cm. 
  longa, 
  3-3,5 
  cm. 
  

   lata, 
  intus 
  glabra, 
  in 
  foliis 
  intimis 
  Iepidibus 
  hyalinis 
  adpressis 
  

   basin 
  versus 
  obtecta, 
  extus 
  minute 
  adpresse 
  albido-lepidota, 
  mar- 
  

   gine 
  usqueferead 
  basin 
  spinuloso-dentata; 
  lamina 
  in 
  foliis 
  exte- 
  

   rioribus 
  rosulae 
  ad 
  1,4 
  m. 
  longa, 
  4 
  cm. 
  lata 
  (in 
  spec. 
  culto 
  6-7 
  

   ex 
  Morr.) 
  supra 
  glabra, 
  subtus 
  Iepidibus 
  minutis 
  valde 
  adpressis 
  

   obtecta 
  vel 
  fere 
  glabrescens, 
  margine 
  spinis 
  crassis 
  validis 
  ar- 
  

   mata; 
  spinae 
  e 
  basi 
  triangulari 
  acerosae, 
  inferiores 
  deorsum, 
  

   mediae 
  et 
  superiores 
  sursum 
  hamatae 
  5 
  mm. 
  longae 
  basi 
  et 
  

   medio 
  26-20 
  mm. 
  distantes 
  (10 
  mm. 
  long, 
  et 
  35 
  mm. 
  distantes 
  

   in 
  spec. 
  culto 
  ex 
  Morr. 
  sed 
  in 
  icône 
  niagnitiidine 
  naturali 
  repro- 
  

   ductae 
  spinae 
  haud 
  6 
  mm. 
  superant; 
  distantia 
  maxirna 
  quae 
  de- 
  

   picta 
  est 
  24 
  mm. 
  non 
  superat); 
  spinae 
  apicem 
  versus 
  magis 
  ap- 
  

   proximatae 
  minores 
  et 
  vix 
  10 
  mm. 
  distantes, 
  lamina 
  apice 
  in 
  

   spinam 
  robustam 
  pungentem 
  producta. 
  

  

  Scapus 
  robustus 
  erectus 
  profunde 
  canaliculatus, 
  Iepidibus 
  floc- 
  

   cosis 
  dense 
  albido-pulverulentus; 
  folia 
  scapalia 
  ad 
  70 
  cm. 
  longa, 
  

   foliis 
  rosulae 
  conformia 
  sed 
  angustiora, 
  spinis 
  omnibus 
  sursum 
  

   curvatis 
  magis 
  approximatis 
  armata, 
  vivo 
  supra 
  praecipue 
  apicem 
  

   versus 
  rosea 
  basin 
  versus 
  viridescentia. 
  Inflorescentia 
  cylindrico- 
  

   ovoidea 
  vel 
  subglobosa, 
  45 
  /«- 
  7 
  %o- 
  9 
  %s 
  mm.; 
  bracteae 
  e 
  basi 
  latius- 
  

   cule 
  ovata 
  anguste 
  lanceolatae 
  35-20 
  mm. 
  longae, 
  margine 
  sat 
  

   crebre 
  spinuloso-dentatae, 
  apice 
  spinoso-mucronatae, 
  dentibu& 
  

   aciculosis 
  patentibus 
  vel 
  sursum 
  vel 
  deorsum 
  curvatis, 
  vivo 
  ru- 
  

   brae 
  sed 
  ob 
  lepides 
  extus 
  densiusculas 
  colore 
  minus 
  lucidae 
  

   quam 
  in 
  Bromelia 
  Balansae 
  Mez, 
  in 
  flore 
  et 
  fructu 
  erecto-in- 
  

   curvae 
  imbricatae. 
  Sepala 
  late 
  ovato-subtriangularia, 
  valde 
  asym- 
  

   metrica, 
  crasse 
  coriacea, 
  prominenter 
  carinata, 
  apicem 
  triangu- 
  

  

  