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BILLBERGIA fasciata. 
Banded Billbergia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. BROMELIACER. 
BILLBERGIA. Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1068. 
Sect. 1. Stamina omnia calyce inserta, Stigmata linearia; 
Sect. 2. Stamina alterna. petalis super squamam inserta. Stigmata 
trt e : : 
. fasciata; spicá prolifera: capitulà bracteis involucratä, foliis glaucis 
obtusis apiculatis recurvis spinoso-serratis albo fasciatis, scapo hispido. 
Folia radicalia glauca, erecto-recurva,. canaliculata; ligulata, obtusa, 
apiculata, spinoso-serrata, hic illic fasciis albis tomentosis, nunc interruptis 
trajecta. Scapus 11 pedalis, foliosus, hispidus. Spica capitata, composita, 
prolifera, bracteis longis, roseis, acuminatis, spinoso-serratis involucrata. Calyx 
superus, coriaceus, glaber, 3-partitus, non 3-phyllus ; laciniis cordato-ovatis, 
pluri-costatis, carinatis, marginibus. omnibus membranaceis, imbricantibus. 
Petala 3, purpurea, in. margine disci epigyni cyathiformis inserta, unguicu- 
lata, concava, super basin squamá lacerá munita, disco subplicato corrugato. 
Stamina 6, 3 petalis alterna, in eádem serie inserta, 3 petalis inserta infrà 
medium ; filamenta linearia, membranacea, versüs basin subteretia ; an- 
there lutescentes, sagittate, antice, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, 
estivatione marginibus coherentes, filamentis medio dorso adherentes. Ova- 
rium lanatum, triloculare, polyspermum. Stylus filiformis, apicem versüs 
incrassatus. Stigmata 3, crispa, petaloidea, moz convoluta. 
A native of Rio Janeiro, whence it was received by 
Mr. Samuel Brookes, of the Ball's Pond Nursery, where 
the accompanying figure was made, in August 1826. 
A remarkably handsome stove plant, requiring the 
assistance of a bark bed, and propagated by offsets of the 
spike and root. 1t has nearly the same relation to true 
Billbergias that the Tillandsia nitida of Professor Hooker 
bears to the genuine species of Tillandsia. The white 
bands of the leaves, and the rich rose-coloured bracteæ of 
this species, give it a particularly beautiful appearance. 
