pdf 31 MB - BSBI Archive

NEW GUATEMALAN BROMELIACE^. 305
fruit can be found on the Sugar-cane ; it is the same with the
seed-leaf, which we understand to be the cotyledon, unless the
Secretary means the cotyledouary sheath, for it is the first dullcoloured
amplexicaul leaf which is present at the base of the plant
in our specimen."
In the plate which accompanies the paper, a spikelet is figured
with the young plant growing out from between the glumes. The
figure is fifom a dried specimen, and nothing is indicated in the
young plant except the two primary leaves rolled up.
NEW GUATEMALAN BUOMELIACEM.
By J. G. Baker, F.R.S.
For the opportunity of examining a small set of BromeUacecB,
gathered by himself in Guatemala, I am indebted to John Donnell-
Smith, Esq., of Baltimore, who has recently reported on, in the
American ' Botanical Gazette,' and distributed a fine collection of
plants made by Von Turekheim in the same country.
iEJchmea (Hohenbekgia) isabellina, n. sp. — Leaves lorate,
2 ft. or more long, 2-2^ in. broad, moderately firm, glabrous above,
thiuly lepidote beneath ; apes deltoid-cuspidate ; marginal spines
large and pungent, lower ^ in. long. Peduncle stout, \^ ft. long,
with few large ascending scariose lanceolate bract-leaves. Inflorescence
a narrow panicle 2 ft. long, with numerous short simple
deflexed branches 1-2 in. long ; lower branches much longer and
bipinnate, subtended by large red lanceolate bract-leaves ; rachis
densely pubescent ; flowers laxly disposed ; flower-bracts ovateacuminate,
^ in. long. Sepals ovate, imbricated, ^ in. long, not
distinctly cus[)idate, rather longer than the globose ovary. Petals
protruded, }; in., probably yellow.—Boca del Polocbic, dept. Ysabel,
alt. 200 ft., Doiinell-Siuith 1824! Intermediate between .E. laxi/lora
Bentli. ixndpyntmiddlis Benth.
' I JE. (Lajiprococcus) Donnell-Smithii, n. sp.—Leaves lanceo-
late, very rigid, above 2 ft. long, 3 in. broad low down, glaln-ous
above, obscurely lepidote beneath, narrowed gradually to the point
miirginal teeth minute, crowded. Peduncle stout, above a foot
long, with several pale scariose ascending lanceohite bract-leaves.
Inflorescence a dense narrow bipinnate panicle above 2 ft. long,
with a stout finely pubescent rachis ; many upper branches simple,
not exceeding 1-H in. ; a few of the lowest compound ; flowers
laxly disposed; flower-bracts minute, lanceolate, not rigid. Sepals
ovate, connivent, coriaceous, distinctly cuspidate, ^ in. long, connate
above tbc very small naked trigonous ovary. Petals minute.
—Rio Dolce, dept. Livingstone, little above sea-level, Ihinwll-Siiiit/i
very distinct species, that comes in between mexicuna
1825 ! A
and Skinwri.
JE. (Platv.tichmka) squarrosa, n. sp.—Leaves thin, cnsiform
from a very large oldoug base, iiUogcther 2.1-3 ft. long, l.l lu.
Journal of Botany.—Vol. 28. [October, 18U0.J x