Great allowance must be made for the variation in plants that 
have been for centuries under cultivation, especially in the case 
of esculent and fruit-bearing ones, and the kinds bearing fruit so 
much an object of competition, that there seems to be no end 
of forms and colour. This species has nothing to do with Bro- 
melia bracteata, Sw. and of ‘ Hortus Kewensis.’ 
Seeing that, as far as our knowledge extends, there are no real 
differences between the two and Ananas sativus, already figured 
in this work, we abstain from any full description. Roemer and 
Schultes express a doubt whether this be distinct from Ananas 
Sagenaria (Bromelia Sagenaria, “ Arruda de Camara, Diss.,” etc., 
_p. 41), noticed too in Koster’s Travels, vol. ii. p. 458. Both — 
are considered natives of Brazil. With the latter we are totally 
unacquainted. Is there really more than one species of Ananas, — 
or true Pine-apple ?. 
se Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf and a flower spike, nat. size. 2. Flower within its — ; 
bractea and upon its fleshy receptacle. 3. Petal and stamen :—magnified. 
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