BROMELIACEiE. 593 



spike 6"-14", inferior bracts and partial spikes 4"-3" long ; bractlets at length spreading, 

 4'", flowers 8"'-6"' Ion?.— Hab. Jamaica ! (Su>.) ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Cr., at 

 Mat ura Beach. 



8. A. paniculigera, Gr. Leaves oblong, abruptly enlarged at the base, green ; bracts 

 oblong-lanceolate, much longer than the cymes, reduced between them ; panicle long, race- 

 miform, downy, or glabrescent : cymes or seorpioid spikes numerous, sessile along the rhachis, 

 all conform, or the uppermost reduced to single, sessile flowers : flowers in each cyme dis- 

 tant from each other, lateral, sessile : bractlets small, subulate, awned, much shorter than 

 the calyx-tube ; calyx-lobes ovate, terminated by a short, recurved awn ; petals spathulate, 

 exserted, "purple." — Bot. Mag. ^. 3304. Bromelia, Sw. {ex descr., non Sw. herbar.). Bill- 

 bergia purpureorosea, Hook. (Hoplophytum, Beer). — Scape several feet high; leaves 2'-3' 

 long, 2£"-3" broad at the middle, 4''-6" at the base ; raceme l'-2' long, 2''-3" broad : in- 

 ferior scarlet bracts 4"-6", cyme-interuodes 4"'-8'", calyx 5"'-8'" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, 

 JPd., on rocks and trees, S. Elizabeth ; [Venezuela !]. 



Sect. 3. Hapl,echmea. — Calyx-tube produced beyond the ovary : lobes mucronate. Petals 

 perigynons, connivent : scales fimbriate, distant from their base, at the origin of the 

 epipetalous stamens, but below the middle of their claw. — Spike terminal, simple : 

 bractlets small, subulate, awned. 



9. A. nudicaulis, Gr. Leaves oblong, subequal at the entire base, mucronate, dull- 

 green beneath , bracts oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, all distant from the spike ; spike simple, 

 often lax, nodding, downy : flowers single, distant (or clustered) : bractlet much shorter than 

 the calyx-tube; calyx -lobes oblong, blunt, mucronate ; petals spathulate, exserted, yellow. — 

 Plum. Ed. Barm. t. 62. — Bromelia, L. Billbergia, Lindl. Hoplophytum, C. Kch. Billb. 

 lutea, Schult. (Bromelia, Mey. Essea. I). Billb. pvramidata, Beer. — Leaves li'-2' long, 

 H"-3" broad ; scape H'-2', rosy bracts 3"-2", flowers 8'" long.— Hab. Trinidad ! (Sch.) ; 

 [Cuba !, on rocks aud trees ; Guiana !, Brazil]. 



6. MACROCHORDIUM, Vries. 



Petals distinct, suberect, bearing 2 cut scales at the middle within, epigynous with the 

 alternate stamens : the opposite 3, epipetalous stamens inserted between the scales. Anthers 

 erect, slightly cohering. Stigmas straight, short. Berry dry, many-seeded. — Scape with 

 sterile bracts below the dense, simple spike ; leaves spiny-serrate ; flowers supported by a 

 clasping, woolly, awned bractlet; calyx-lobes fleshy, blunt; corolla exserted, becoming 

 black. 



10. M. melananthum, Beer. Leaves oblong, rounded at the top, erect, green ; spike 

 short, oblong-cylindrical, blunt; petals purple-black, spathulate, blunt. — Bot. Reg. t. 766. — 

 Bromelia, Lindl. Billbergia clavata, Lindl. — Leaves l£'-2' long, l£"-2£" broad : spines 

 blackish; scape about 2', spike l£"-2", flowers 6"'-8"' long.— Hab. Trinidad !; [Guiana!, 

 at the base of trees]. 



Tribe II. TILLANDSIEJZ. — Ovary superior, or half-inferior ; fruit capsular. 



7. BROCCHINIA, Schult. 



Petals distinct at the naked base, cohering at the middle with the monadelphous, hemi- 

 cpigynous stamens. " Capsule half-inferior, introrsely dehiscent at the free summit : seeds 

 attached at the middle, with a naked appendage at both ends." — Stem stout, leaved af the 

 base, divided into a large, spreading panicle ; leaves entire, rigid, devoid of scaly down, 

 somewhat pungent at the pointed summit ; petals little exserted. 



11. B. Plumierii, Gr. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, equal at the base-, 

 branches of the panicle spiciform, nodding : flowers thrice as long as their internodes ; calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate-acuminate, half as long again as the, bractlet, very little exceeded by the 

 spathulate-linear petals. — Bromelia paniculigera, Sw. herbar. (non It. Ind. Occ). Tillandsia 

 panicnlata, L. ? ■■ habit of Plum. Ed. Burm. I. 237, but too badly figured, to be quoted with 

 certainty. — Several feet high ; lower leaves 1' long, 1£"-1" broad, convolute at the pungent 



