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BROMELIA PYRAMIDALIS. PyrRAMIDAL= 
FLOWERED BROMELIA. 
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Clafs and Order. 
HEXANDRIA Monocyrnta. 
Generic Charaéter. as 
Cal. 3-fidus, fuperus. Petala 3. Squama ne€larifera ad bafin 
petali. DPericarpium 3-loculare, : : 
Specific Characfer and Synonyms. 
BROMELIA pyramidalis ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis fpinofo- 
; ciliatis, {capo infra flores nudos braéteato : braéteis lanceo- 
lato-ovatis integerrimis coloratis, = 
BROMELIA pyramidata aculeis nigris. Plum. Gen. 46. Ic. 62.? 
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BROMELIA uudicaulis. Sp. Pl. 409.? Willd. 2. p. 9.? 
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Descr. Leaves all radical, lanceolate with a lengthened 
point, edged with fmall brown fpines, involute, and embracing 
one another at the bafe. A fimple /cape rifes from the bofom 
of the leaves, clothed below the flowers with large, concave, ovate- 
lanceolate, {pathe-like, entire, brafles, of a fine rofe-colour, which 
- turns brown with age. Above the braétes the flowers grow ina 
thyrfe-like fpike, naked (i. ¢. withodt any braétes intermixed). 
Germen inferior, nearly cylindrical, trilocular, with many ovula 
in each cell, affixed in two rows to a central receptacle. Style 
the length of the ftamens: fligma tripartite; the lacinia bright 
Violet, twifted together, fo as to refemble a fcrew-like capitate 
ftigma. Calyx tripartite ; fegments linear, connivent, ereét, 
Both it and the germen are covered with a white, mealy powder. 
Corolla three-petaled : petals eret, with linear claws longer than 
the calyx: Jimb fhort, ovate, acute, patent, the edges foon 
rolling inwards. The colour a fine {carlet, tinged on the infide 
with violet, more intenfe at the tips. Filaments fix, inferted into 
the bafe of the calyx, Anthers yellow, linear, incumbent. ae 
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