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Aechmea (Including Macrochordium This)
Including Macrochordium. This genus comprises about sixty species, and is restricted to South America. To those described on p. 30, Vol. I., the following should now be added:
AE. amazonica (Amazons). A synonym of Karatas amazonica. AE. Barleei (Barlee's). fl. distichous; calyx with a globose, mealy tube; corolla pale yellow; lower bracts red, upper ones green; stem central, paniculately branched. l. eight or nine in a rosette, lorate-ensiform, green, 2ft. to 3ft. long, 2in. broad, thinly white-lepidote, prickly on the margins. British Honduras, 1883.
AE. brasiliensis (Brazilian). fl., calyx, bracts, and rachis scarlet; petals blue, erect, emarginate-rounded at base; panicle contracted, oblong, 5in. long, highly glabrous, the branchlets sessile, short, two to six-flowered. l. recurved-spreading, ligulate-linear, much dilated at base, rigid, channelled, the margins spiny-toothed, acuminate, 1 3/4ft. to 3ft. long. Rio Janeiro, 1885. (R. G. 1202.) AE. Cornui (Professor Cornu's). fl., calyx and bracts carmine-red; corolla yellow; inflorescence rather shorter than the leaves; scape red, with sparse, white tomentum. l. broad, ligulate, truncate and mucronate at apex, green, spotted brown towards the base and apex, the margins toothed. Brazil, 1885. A dwarf, robust species. (R. H. 1885, p. 36.) AE. ferruginea (rusty). fl. rosy-lilac, small, glomerulate; inflorescence paniculate. l. spreading, broad, ligulate, obtuse, denticulate, bright green, irregularly spotted with dull green. 1883. A large and robust species. SYN. Hohenbergia ferruginea (R. H. 1881, p. 437).
AE. flexuosa (flexuous). fl. distant, sessile, erecto-patent; calyx pale pink, 1/2in. to 5/8in. long; petals bright red, lingulate, shortly protruded; panicle ovate, bipinnate, 1 1/2ft. to 2ft. long, 6in. to 8in. in diameter, the lower branches 3in. to 4in. long; peduncle erect, stout, 1 1/2ft. long; bracts pale, erect. Winter. l. twenty to thirty in a dense rosette 3ft. to 4ft. in circumference, lanceolate from a dilated base, bright green, horny, 3in. broad, channelled, with scattered, whitish spots. Native country unknown. 1886. Plant acaulescent.
AE. Lalindei (Lalinde's).* fl., calyx green, ellipsoid, pink at the tips; corolla not exserted; spike dense; bracts crimson, large, acute, reflexed; stem tall. l. 3ft. to 4ft. long, broad, concave, acute, denticulate, green. New Grenada, 1883. A handsome plant. (I. H. 481.) AE. macrantha (large-flowered). fl. yellowish, fading to black, sessile, in a small, globose head; peduncle white-woolly, shorter than the leaves, with long, narrow bracts. l. long, recurved and bent, spiny-toothed, dark, shining green above, densely white-punctate-striate beneath. Brazil, 1886. A fine Bromeliad. SYN. Macrochordium macranthum (R. G. 1886, p. 297, f. 34). AE. mexicana (Mexican). fl. on erecto-patent pedicels 1/4in. long; calyx green, 1/2in. long; petals bright crimson, connivent, protruding 1/3in. from the calyx; panicle oblong-cylindrical, 1ft. long, 4in. to 5in. broad, the lower branches 2in. to 3in. long; peduncle stout, 1ft. long; bracts colourless, erect. Winter. l. twenty to thirty in a dense rosette, lorate, with a deltoid-cuspidate tip, above 2ft. long, 3in. broad, the dilated base 4in. to 5in. broad, pale green, with darker green spots; prickles small, the lower ones tipped with brown. Mountains of Orizaba, 1886. AE. myriophylla (many-leaved). fl. distichous; calyx bright red; corolla pink, fading to lilac; scape 1 1/2ft. high, panicled above, and, as well as the bracts, bright red. l. forming a dense rosette, narrow, channelled, attenuated, 2ft. to 2 1/2ft. long, 1in. broad, dull green, sprinkled with silvery scales on the back, the margins armed with close, brown prickles. Tropical America, 1887. (B. M. 6939.) AE. paniculigera (panicle-bearing). fl. disposed in a large, compound panicle 1ft. to 2ft. long; sepals rose-coloured; petals deep bright purple; scape several feet high, reddish-purple, clothed with white down. West Indies, 1887. AE. Weilbachii leodiensis (Weilbach's, Liege).* fl. violet-rose, changing to dark red; bracts scarlet, mixed with violet and green; scape shorter than the leaves. l. about forty in a rosette, the basal half armed with larger and more crowded spines than in the type, the upper surface dark olive and bright green, the basal part beneath washed violet-brown and spotted blood-red. Brazil, 1887.