Tas. 6435, 
LAMPROCOCOUS Werzpacutz. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Bromeniacex.—Tribe ANANASSEX. 
Genus Lamprococeus; Beer Fam. Brom. p. 103. 
Lamrrococeus Weilbachii ; acaulis, foliis productis 12-20 dense rosulatis loratis 
pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus nitide viridibus supra basin dilatatum aie 
apice deltoideis cuspidatis, pedunculo subpedali erecto foliis bracteiformibus 
adpressis superioribus igneis occulto, floribus in paniculam laxam dispositis, 
ramis laxis brevibus patulis paucifloris spicatis subsecundis bracteis magnis 
igneis lanceolatis suffultis, bracteis floralibus minutis, calycis semipollicaris 
rubro-violacei tubo oblongo, segmentis latis brevibus rotundatis cuspi- 
datis, petalis parvis rubellis lingulatis basi squamatis, genitalibus petalis 
brevioribus. 
L. Weilbachii, Z. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1861, p. 805, cum icone; Regel Gar- 
tenfl. vol. xvi. p. 98, tab. 539. 
L, Laurentianus, K. Koch; HE. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1861, p. 312. 
Ecumea Weilbachii, F. Dietr. in Ind. Semin. Hort. Bot. Copen. anno 1854; 
Rafarin in Rev. Hort. 1870, p. 171, cum icone. 
This is one of the most striking of the cultivated Brome- 
liads; for, although in Lamprococcus and Aichmea the 
individual flowers are smaller and less showy than in 
Billbergia, the bright red rachises and bracts of the present 
plant, in combination with its bright green leaves and red- 
dish-violet calyx, which all preserve their colour for a long 
time, make it an effective species for decorative purposes. 
The corolla, however, is small and by no means showy, and 
soon fades to a brownish tinge. It has been in cultivation 
along time, but is still rare in this country. It was first 
described from a specimen that flowered in 1854 in the 
Botanic garden at Copenhagen ; and again from a plant intro- 
duced about 1860 from Brazil, by Monsieur de Jonghe, of 
Brussels. Our present drawing was made from a specimen 
that flowered lately in the Kew collection. 
Descr. Produced Jeaves twelve to twenty, in a dense 
sessile utricular rosette, lorate, a foot or a foot and a half 
JUNE Ist, 1879. 
