Tas. 6024, 
NIDULARIUM sprcrazin. = “2026604 
2 SPECTABILIS 
Native of Brazil. fle feel Colah 
Nat. Ord. BromeLiacex.—Tribe ANANASSE, 
P Genus Nipuuarium, Lemaire Jardin Fleuriste, vol. iv., Mise., p. 60, t. 441. 
NIpuLArIum spectabile ; acaule, cespitosum, foliis rosulatis recurvis e basi late 
dilatata late loriformibus (ad 2-poll. latis) planiusculis minute distanter. 
spinuloso-dentatis apice late sanguinea rotundatis ungue rigido ter- 
| minatis supra viridibus subtus glaucescentibus albo transverse fasciatis, 
4 floribus in fasciculum multiflorum terminalem sessilem dense congestis, 
| bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis purpureis calycem sxquantibus : calycis 
| lobis oblongis longe cuspidatis sanguineis, petalis infra medium in E 
r tubum connatis dein ellipticis acuminatis recurvis violaceis, antheris ot 
aN sessilibus. 
Nipuartum spectabile, 7. Moore in Gard. Chron., 1873, p. 8. 
The genus Nidularium was established by Lemaire in 
1854, and includes various species of the old genera 
Bromelia, Billbergia, &e., together with others, of which a 
dozen are enumerated by Morren, in his valuable “ Catalogue oe 
des Broméliacées cultivées au Jardin Botanique de l'Université a 
de Liege” (1873.) Amongst them WV. Meyendorfii, Regel, m 
(Billbergia olens, Tab. nost. 5502), is the only one quoted oe 
being hitherto figured in the “Botanical Magazine. The 
genus is probably a large one, and we have dried 
Specimens of the foliage ‘of several Brazilian species, 
besides the considerable number that are in cultivation. 
NV. spectabile was imported by Mr. Bull from the interior 
of Brazil, and flowered in his establishment in December, 
1872. It is a very striking plant, allied to WV. Meyen- 
dorfii, Lemaire (Ill. Hort. ¢, 245), but very distinct ; 
and may at once be recognised from any species hitherto 
cultivated in England, by the singular bright blood-red ends 
MARCH Ist, 1873. 
