Aechmea nudicaulis. Native to south and central America, Mexico and the West Indies, sent from Trinidad by Eduard Freiherr von Schack, Baron de Schack. Leafless-stalked bromelia, Bromelia nudicaulis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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