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lanceolate, acute, falcate, thin in texture, minutely obscurely an 
lepidote on both surfaces, the ribs fine and numerous, the 
margin entire, the clasping base but little dilated, the lower 
part green, the upper half or two-thirds strongly tinged 
with bright red on both sides, the outer leaves of the A 
rosette a foot or more long, the inner growing gradually 
shorter. Flowers arranged in a cluster at the base of the — : 
centre of the rosette of leaves, each furnished with a short 
pedicel, which is subtended by an oblong obtuse mem- 
branous bract. Calyx under an inch long, with three S : 
oblong obtuse erect segments united in a cup at the 
base. Corolla two and a half or three inches long, with a 
long clavate yellowish-white tube and three short spreading 
ovate obtuse segments. Stamens all six inserted at the 
same level near the throat of the corolla-tube; filaments 
adnate nearly to the apex; anthers linear-oblong, sagittate 
at the base. Ovary ampulleform, with very numerous 
superposed ovules in each of the three cells; style filiform, 
reaching out of the corolla-tube; stigmas short, ovate, not 
spirally twisted. Capsule oblong, chartaceous ; seeds 
numerous, like those of a Tillandsia.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced ; 2, a flower, life size ; 3, portion of the 
corolla, with stamens, enlarged ; 4, pistil, life size; 5, apex of style; 6, ovary:-- 
both enlarged. 
