fasciated horizontally. Flower-stem erect, six to nine inches 
high, just reaching to where the leaves spread, so as to leave 
room for the panicle. Flotvers thirty to fifty in a close thyrsoid 
panicle about half as long as the stem. Bracts of the main axis 
rose-red, lanceolate-acuminate, entire, erecto-patent, the lowest 
under an inch long. Perianth sessile, seven to eight lines long ; 
the oblong ovary half the length; the delicate blue connivent 
ligulate-spathulate petals about twice the dry deltoid-aristate 
sepals. 
There seems to be some danger of this genus, Hohenhergia, 
which was defined by the j^ounger Schultes in his excellent 
resume of the Bromeliacece, published in 1830, being altogether 
crowded out of existence by more recent creations. Beer has 
restricted the name to H. strohilaceay Schultes, which the latter 
author regarded as an aberrant member of the genus, and which 
Klotzsch separated from it long ago under the name oi Acantho- 
stachys. According to our view, Ilohenhergia should be kept up 
to include at least all the species to which the character above 
given applies. The following is a list of the published species, 
which belong to Hohenhergia proper, which are known to us from 
figures or authentic specimens, excluding several yet unnamed or 
of which we have seen descriptions alone : — 
§ Pironneaua, Gaudich. — Inflorescence paniculate. 
Gnoup 1. — Panicle large, lax, with elongated, laxly pinnate branches. 
1. H. PLATYNEMA, Baker = Pironneaua platynema, Gaudich. 
Atl. Bonite, t. 64. 
2. H, PYRAMID ALis, Baker = Mchmea pyramiclalis, Benth. Bot. 
Sulph. p. 173. 
Geoup 2. — Panicle large, lax ; the branches close clusters, the lower 
ped uncled. 
3. H. DiSTANS, Baker = jFlchmea distans, Griseb. Fl. Brit. West 
Ind. p. 592. 
4. H. GLOMERATA, Baker = Pironneaua glomerata, Gaudich. 
Atl. Bonite, t. 03. ALchmea glomerata, Bot. Mag. t. 5668. 
Hoplophytum angustum^ Beer, Brom. p. 136. 
5. H. ERYTHROSTACHYS, A. Broug. Joum. Soc. Imp. Hort. 
France, Jul}', 1864, cum icone ; Journ. Hort. 1869, p. 217, 
t. 53. 
Group 3. — Panicle large, lax, narrow, simply pinnate. 
0. H. PANiciiLiGKRA, Baker = Bromelia paniculigera, Swartz, 
Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 56 ; Willd. Sp. Plant, ii. p. 9 ; 
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