Observations: — Very like distichantha in panicle and separate flowers, but different in leaf. It may be Hoplophytum polystachyum, Beer, Brom., p. 137, founded upon a very rough plate of the 'Flora Fluminensis,' vol iii., tab. 138, called Tillandsia polystachya.Edited from : Baker 1879b. (protologue) A Synopsis of the Genus Aechmea, R. & P. .