Tab. 6329. 
iECHMEA (Chevalliera) Veitchii . 
Native of New Granada. 
Nat. Ord. Beomeliace^e. — Tribe Ananasse;e, 
Genus JEchmea, Ruiz & Pav. FI. Peruv. tab. 264. 
iEcHMEA {Chevalliera) Veitchii ; acaulis., stolonifera, foliis 12-15 loratis rigide co- 
riaceis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus facie glabris viridibus dorso prorsus albo- 
lepidotis haud zonatis margine dentibus crebris minutis brnnneis annatis, 
scapo pedali bracteis pluribus viridibns firmis lanceolatis adpressis dentatis 
prsedito, floribns in capitulum densum oblongum dispositis, bracteis 
sqnarrosis dentatis cartilagineis splendide rubris calyce paulo longioribus, 
ovario ingequilateraliter globoso facie exteriori magis convexo, sepalis 
lanceolato-deltoideis acutis haud mucronatis ovario longioribus, petalis 
pallidis parvis lingulatis, genitalibus sepalis subsequilongis, staminibus 
petalinis basi squamulis parvis prseditis. 
Chevallieea Veitchii, Morren in litt. 
This is a very fine new Bromeliad, discovered by Gustave 
Wallis in New Granada in 1874, and introduced this present 
year into cultivation by Messrs. Yeitch. It is closely allied 
to the Costa-rican JEchmea Marice-regince of Wendland, and 
belongs to the section Chevalliera , which was proposed as a genus 
by Gaudichaud (Atlas, Yoy. de laBonite, tab. 61-62), and has 
been maintained as such by Grisebach and Morren. Chevalliera 
differs from Hohenbergia , under which most of the cultivated 
.ZEchmeas fall, by the heads being so tightly packed that the 
ovary and calyx have become unequal-sided by pressure, 
instead of remaining symmetrically globose, and both 
Chevalliera and Hohenbergia recede from the original species 
of NEchmea by their central inflorescence and shorter and less 
protruded petals and stamens. In addition to these, I am 
disposed to look upon Hoplophytum , Pothuava , Pironneava , 
Canistrum and Ortgiesia as mere sections of JEchmea. 
NOVEMBEE 1ST, 1877. 
