BROMELIACEiE. 591 



Tribe I. ANANASSFjE. — Ovary inferior ; fruit baccate, or indehiscent. 



1*. ANANASSA, Lindl. 



" Petals distinct, 2-scaled within : scales tubular. Stamens epigynous •. anthers erect. 

 Stigmas straight." Syncarpium formed of the spicate inflorescence, becoming fleshy, 

 crowned by a tuft of leaves. — Spike supported by rosulate leaves. 



1*. A. sativa, Lindl. Leaves spiny-serrate ; bracts ovate, poiuted, about as long as 

 the flowers.— Bed. Lil. 8. t. 455. Des'c. Fl. t. 36, 341.— Hab. Naturalized and cultivated 

 in the West Indies, e.g. Jamaica, Antigua !, Wullschl., Trinidad ; [South America]. 



2. NIDULARIUM, Lemair. 



(Karatas, Plum.) 



Corolla tubular, naked within. Stamens inserted into the throat of the corolla-tube : 

 anthers incumbent. Stigmas twisted. Berry succulent, many-seeded. — Flowers mostly in 

 a sessile head, surrounded by the channelled bases of the leaves. 



2. N. Karatas, Lemair. Leaves large, acuminate, dentate, with distant, incurved 

 spiues ; head sessile, leafless ; calyx-tube cylindrical, furfuraceous-woolly ; corolla as long, 

 rosy : lobes oblong-lanceolate, half as long as the tube. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 260. f 24. : 

 analyt. Jacq. H. Vinclob. 1. t. 31, 32; 3. t. 79. — Bromelia, L.— Leaves 6'-8', calyx-tube 

 1", corolla 1^" long. — Hab. Jamaica; Antigua!, Wullschl.; [Cuba to Guiana !]. 



3. BROMELIA, L., Lindl. (1827). 



(Agallostachys, Beer.) 



Petals distinct, naked within. Stamens epigynous : anthers erect, sagittate. Stigmas 

 straight, short. Berry succulent, many-seeded. — Stem bearing leaves ; flowers in a compound, 

 /•acemiform spike : inferior or all common hvactafoliaceous. 



3. E. Pingfuin, L. Leaves narrowly acuminate, dentate with stout, incurved spines, 

 glaucous beneath ; spike whitish-tomentose, partial ones 4-5-flowered ; calyx slender : lobes 

 lanceolate-linear, bluutish ; petals red, shortly exserted, spathulate-linear. — Tuss. Fl. 4. t. 22. 

 — Rosulate leaves 5'-6', panicle 1 ', flowers 2" long ; berry ovoid. — Hab. Jamaica!, Wils., 

 Al., common in savannahs and rocky hills, used for making fences ; Antigua!, Wullschl., 

 Barbadoes; [Cuba! to Guiana and New Granada]. 



4. CHEVALLIERA, Gaudich. 



Petals distinct : claw persistent, hard, dilated towards the base. Stamens 3, epigynous, 

 alternate with the petals, their filaments hard below, persistent : 3 inserted above the claw 

 of the petals : anthers incumbent. Stigmas straight, connivent. Berry many-seeded. — 

 Stem bearing usually foliaceous bracts ; leaves spiny-serrate ; flowers in spikes ; bractlcts 

 and calyx-lobes aicned. 



The determination of this genus rests upon Gaudiehaud's figures only, chiefly on C. omata, 

 (Atlas Bonite, t. 62) : his fig. ] 2 shows exactly the peculiar structure of the early withering 

 petals, the hard claws of which, having lost their lamina, together with the anthers, end 

 with a cut appendage (the residue of the former). The ovules however are not beaked in 

 our species, and its petals (showing tubular scales in Gaudiehaud's figures) are probably 

 naked. Bromelia longifolia, Rudg. (non Lindl.) is, from its figure, perhaps another congener. 



4. C. lmgulata, Gr. Leaves oblong, spiny -mucronate at the bluntish top, green ; stem 

 stout, terminated by a compound spike : special spikes cylindrical, distant, subsessile or 

 shortly peduncled, much exceeding the bract : flowers spreading, approximate, or somewhat 

 distantly clustered ; calyx rigid, exceeding the subulate bractlet : lobes obliquely obovate- 

 roundish, connivent, longer than their black, terminal awu ; petals " whitish :" lamina 

 shortly exserted. — Plum. Ed. Burm. t. 64./. 1.: bad. — Bromelia, L. Hoplophytum, Beer. 

 — Leaves H'-3' long, 2"-4" broad ; inflorescence 6"-l 8", special spikes 4"-8", lanceolate- 



