Fief I ig ium Botanicuni.] 
[June, 1871. 
TAB. 284. 
Natural Order Bromeliace^. 
Tribe Bromelie^. 
Genus Hohenbeegia {ScUult.fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1251 [anno 1830) excl. 
H. strohilacea). Perianthium superum, segmeiitis 3 exterioribus 
sepaloideis siccis aristatis supra ovarium liberis, 3 interioribus 
longioribus petaloideis liberis ligulato-spathulatis navicularibus 
diutine conniventibus intus basi squamis fimbriatis 2 appendicu- 
latis. Stamina 3 perigyna 3 epipetala, filamentis filiformibus, 
antheris lineari-oblongis versatilibus. Ovarium inferum, triloculare, 
. ovulis in loculo multis axillaribus vel in § Echinostachys 2 ex apice 
pendulis ; stylus filiformis ; stigmata 3 lineari-obcuneata, spiraliter 
torta. Fructus subbaccutus, trilocularis, segmentis exterioribus 
siccis aristatis coronatus. — jEchmea, Auct. ex arte non R. S P. 
Potliiiava et Pironneaua, Gaud. Atl. Bon. [anno 1839 — 1846, 
nomina sola). HoplojjJiytum, Beer, Brom. p. 129 (anno 1857). 
Herbse turionibus erectis foliis cartilagineis latis dorso convexis 
deorsum arete imbricatis margine spinoso-dentatis, caulibus cen- 
tralibus foliis siccis bractaeiformibus ssepe saturate rubris instructis, 
floribus paniculatis vel spicatis. 
H. ciELESTis (Baker). Foliis ad turionem 9 — 12 cartilagineis lanceo- 
latis erectis sursum falcatig 12 — 15 poll, longis medio 15 — 18 lin,, 
basi 2 poll., latis, dorso valde convexis, apice cuspidatis, margine 
dentibus argutis copiosis ascendentibus i lin. longis munitis, supra 
obscure viridibus, dorso griseo-lepidotis obscure fasciatis, caulibus 
erectis 6 — 9 poll, longis, floribus 30 — 50 in paniculam congestam 
thyrsoideam dispositis, bracteis parvis integris rubris lanceolato- 
acuminatis, infimis vix 1 poU. longis, perianthii segmentis calycinis 
deltoideis longe cuspidatis interioribus petaloideis caeruleis duplo 
brevioribus. — Hoplophytum caleste, K. Koch in WaJp. Ann. v. 
p. 70. 
A native of Brazil. 
Leaves nine to twelve to a tuft, very horny in texture, closely 
imbricated downwards, falcate in the upper half, the largest 
twelve to fifteen inches long, fifteen to eighteen lines broad at 
the middle, dilated gradually to two inches broad above the base, 
the apex with a deltoid-acuminate cusp, the edge closely armed 
with minute ascending concolorous spines ; the upper surface 
dull green, the lov/er gray-green, abundantly lepidote, obscurel}" 
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