leaves not seen. flowers in a compound spike about a foot long, composed of thirty to forty sub-globose sessile dense multifarious heads under an inch long, the branch-bracts of the lower exceeding, of the upper as long as the heads; floral bracts round-deltoid, navicular, firm and rigid in texture, not striated, minutely cuspidate, one-half an inch long and broad. pistil: ovary with calyx three-eighths of an inch long; ovary* globose, furfuraceous, much flattened on the side nearest the axis; sepals deltoid, as long as the ovary, not mucronate; petals not seen.Edited from : Baker 1879b. A Synopsis of the Genus Aechmea, R. & P. .