Tas. 5108. 
VRIESIA psirraciIna; var. RUBRO-BRACTEATA. 
Parrot-flowered Vriesia ; red-bracteated var. 
Nat. Ord. BromELIACEZ.—HeExaNDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala 5, convoluta, qualia, petalis apice revolutis breviora. 
Squame cuique petalo 2, semiadnatee, indivisee. Stamina exserta, 3 libera peta- 
lorum basi inserta, 3 inter petala inserta iisque basi. connata ; anthere lineares, 
plane, posticee. Ovariwm semi-inferum, conicum ; stigma trilobum, lobis convo- — 
lntis et sinuatis villosis.—Folia plana, erecta. Flores distichi, distantes, bracteis 
magnis canaliculatis coloratis. Lindl. 
VriEsta psittacina ; foliis oblongo-lingulatis integerrimis brevi-acuminatis basi 
ventricosis, spica simplici, rachi flexuosa colorata, floribus distantibus, 
bracteis calycibusque corolla parum brevioribus, staminibus exsertis. 
a. bracteis superne flavis. 
TrILLaNpsta psittacina. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2841. 
B. bracteis omnino coccineis. (Tas. Nostr. 5108.) 
VRIESIa psittacina. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 29. t. 10. 
Native of Brazil, and a very great ornament to our stoves, by 
bearing its handsome scarlet and yellow spikes of flowers in the — 
winter months. Our figure, given in the Botanical Magazine, 
of this plant thirty years ago, does not do justice to its beauty. 
That here given is, like that of Dr. Lindley the ‘ Botanical 
Register,’ a variety, in which the bracteas are of the same rich 
scarlet all over as the rachis; and I am glad to have the oppor- 
tunity of giving a more perfect representation, and referring it 
to the genus Vriesia of Dr. Lindley, so named in commemora- 
tion of the merits of Dr. W. de Vriese, Professor of Botany at “ 
Leyden, an excellent botanist and physiologist, now on a governl= — : 
ment botanical mission to Java. ’ 
Descr. Leaves all radical, eight and ten inches to nearly a foot 
long, oblongo-lingulate, waved, acuminate, entire, dark-green, 
much inflated or ventricose at the base, of a coriaceo-membra- 
naceous texture. Scape one foot to one and a half foot high, 
APRIL Ist, 1859. 
