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Tar. 5220. 
GUZMANNIA rrico.or. 
Three-coloured Guzmannia. 
Nat. Ord. BromeLtaceE&.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Ohar. Perigonit liberi sexpartiti lacinie exteriores calycinze zquales, basi 
coherentes, spiraliter convolute, interiores petaloidee, inferne teneriores in tubum 
convolute, apice firmiores, erectee, basi intus nude. Stamina 6, hypogyna; fila- 
menta basi perigonii laciniis interioribus agglutinata, superne latiora, apice con- 
nata; authere dorso affixee, utrinque acute, in cylindrum coalite. Ovarium 
liberum, triloculare. Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali prope basim plurima 
biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigmata 3, linearia, brevia, 
erecta. Capsula cartilaginea, oblongo-cylindracea, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis, 
valvis endocarpio mox soluto duplicatis, explanatis vel tortis. Semina plurima, 
e basi dissepimentorum erecta, oblonga, acuminata, pilis papposis stipata.— 
Herba Americana tropica; foliis radicalibus lineari-ensiformibus cartilagineis, 
planis, basi involutis ; scapo inferne squamoso, floribus spicatis inter bracteas la- 
tentibus. Endl. 
GuzMANNIA ¢ricolor. 
GuzMannia tricolor. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. et Chil. v. 3. p. 88. ¢. 261. Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 462. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 8. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 163 (bis). 
Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1281. 
POURRETTIA sympaganthera. Ruiz et Pav. Syst. p. 82. 
When in flower this is a very gay-coloured and handsome 
Bromeliaceous plant, and deserves the name guadricolor as much 
as or better than ¢ricolor, for it exhibits in its inflorescence four 
very striking and different colours; the numerous and large 
closely imbricated bracts are, below, yellow-green, deeply and 
longitudinally streaked with purplish-black ; the superior bracts 
are bright red, and the flowers are pure white. It was first 
described as a native of Peru, but has since been found in 
Guayaquil, in St. Domingo, and in Jamaica. It is easily culti- 
vated in a moist stove, and blossoms in the summer months. 
Only one species of this pretty genus is known. 
Duscr. This quite resembles a 7i//andsia or Bromelia in its 
mode of growth, and is everywhere glabrous. eaves all radical, 
broad, linear-ensiform, involute, and broad and concave at the 
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DECEMBER IsT, 1860. 
