Refugium Bo tan ic um. ] 
[June, 1871. 
TAB. 286. 
Natural Order BROMELiACE.^i. 
Sub -order Bromelie.t:. 
Genus Hohenbergia, Schultes fil. (See. Tab. 285). 
Sub-genus Echinostachys {A. Brong. in Planch. Hort. Don. p. 25, 
ut genus). Ovula in loculis gemina ex apice pendula. Semina 
solitaria. — Beer, Broni. p. 148. 
H. CALTCULATA, Baker. Foliis ad turionem 10 — 12 cartilagineis loratis 
erecto-patentibus 12 — 15 poll, longis 21 — 24 lin. latis basi vix 
dilatatis apice obtuse rotundatis apiculatis margine dentibus minutis 
concoloribus copiosis ascendentibus instmctis, supra saturate viri- 
dibus subtus albido-viridibus distincte horizontaliter fasciatis, cauli- 
bus erectis 6 — 9 poll, longis purpureis lauuginosis foliis paucis 
bracteiformibus membranaceis albidis adpressis, floribus 80 — 60 in 
glomerulum capitatum subglobosuin congestis, bracteis lanceolatis 
cuspidatis roseis coriaceis calyce brevioribus, perianthii segmentis 
exterioribus calycinis longe aristatis interioribus petaloideis tlavis 
duplo brevioribus. — Hoplophytum calyculatum, Alorren, Belg. Hort. 
1865, p. 162, t. II. 
A native of Brazil. 
Leaves ten to twelve to a tuft, very horny in texture, closely 
imbricated downwards, slightly falcate in the upper half, the 
central ones twelve to fifteen inches long, an inch and a half to 
two inches broad, very little dilated at the base, bluntly rounded 
at the point with a minute apiculus ; bright green on the upper 
surface, with very indistinct horizontal bands ; pale glaucous- 
green and distinctly fasciated, with paler and darker horizontal 
bands on the broadly rounded back ; the edge copiously furnished 
with minute ascending concolorous teeth. Stem six to nine 
inches high, erect, terete, purplish, cottony, furnished with about 
half a dozen membranous lanceolate leaves, an inch and a half to 
two inches long, closely adpressed to it. Flowers thirty to sixty 
in a dense terminal roundish head an inch and a half broad. 
Bracts scariose, reddish, lanceolate-acuminate, rather shorter 
than the calyx. Floioer seven to eight lines long ; the oblong 
ovary tinged with red ; the conspicuously aristate coriaceous 
calycine lohes about half as long as the bright yellow ligulate- 
spathulate petals. 
