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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
CHEVALLIERA (/ECHMEA) VEITCHII. 
This is a very fmo new Bromeliad, discovered and sent me from the United States of Oolomlna by 
my collector, Mr. Slmttleworth, in 1874, and again found and sent by my collector. Air. harder, in 
1875. Its ilowers are produced in a dense oblong head, each subtended by a siiuarrose bright scarlet 
horny-toothed bract, the rich colour of which renders the ])lant highly attractive. Sepals lanceolate- 
deltoid, bright scarlet in the lower flower’s of the head, white in the upper ones. 7, ^ew plaiit lias 
been also sent from the United States of Colombia by Air. Wallis, and has been described ami admirably 
figured in the Sdtamcal Magaziiie for November, 1877, tab. 6329. Mr. Shuttleworth, however, says 
that in its native habitat the flower-heads are fully double the size of the one figured, and present a 
most eft’oetivo appearance, hence doubtless the reason tliat three collectors were struck with it auci sent 
it home. IJ guinea. 
