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* DYCKIA rariflöra. 
Scattered-flowered Dychia. 
HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BRoMELIACER, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 256.) 
DYCKIA.—Schultes fil. Calyx tripartitus ; laciniis erectis concavis. 
Corolla urceolato-campanulata ; petalis erectis rhomboideis carnosis basi nudis. 
Stamina basi monadelpha; antheris erectis. Ovarium superum, tripartibile, 
polyspermum ; stylis tribus stigmatibusque totidem dilatatis complicatis fim- 
briatis ; ovula disticha. Folia carnosa, epidermide crassá corned paululum 
lepidotá vestita» margine spinosa. 
D. rariflora ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis recurvo-patentibus, spicá rariflorá, spathis 
scapi ciliolato-serrulatis, floralibus calycem acutiusculum subsequantibus. 
Schultes fil. in Rom. et Sch. Syst. veg. v. 7. p. 1195. Graham in 
Jameson's Journal, July, 1835, p. 202. 
Introduced from the Berlin Garden by the Horticultural 
Society in 1833. This plant is a native of the Serra of 
Villa Rica, in Brazil, where it and two more species were 
discovered by the indefatigable travellers Spix and Martius. 
It flowers in June and propagates very slowly by offsets, 
after the manner of an Aloe, with which it agrees in many 
of its habits. 
hness the Prince of Salm— Reifferscheid- 
* Named in compliment to his Hi eo x : 
Dyck, a great lover Te Gardening, and one of the most liberal and intelligent of 
the noble patrons of science of the present day. 
