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BrRoMELIA SYLVESTRIS. NARROW-LEAVED 
Wip Pine-Apr ce. 
KEKE EERE EER 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 3-fidus, superus. Petala 3. Squama nectarifera ad 
basin petali. Bacca 3-locularis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Bromewia sylvestris ; foliis ciliato-spinosis apice longe 
attenuatis, racemo terminali composito: racemulis é 
basi bractearum vaginante vix emergentibus. 
Bromenia sylvestris. Willd. Enum. Suppl. p. 16. Link 
Enum. 1. p. 308. i 
Although Wiiipenow has recorded the Bromenia syl- 
vestris by name only, without any description whatever, 
and Linx has only added, that its leaves are like those of 
Bromexia Pinguin, only narrower, yet there can be little 
doubt but that our plant is the species meant by these au- 
thors, because Mr. Anprrson received it from Mr. Orro, 
the inspector of the royal botanic garden at Berlin, under 
name. Before coming into flower it is not distinguish- 
able from Mr. Linpuey’s Bromesa fastuosa, except by the 
leaves bein elongated to a much slenderer termination ; 
ut when the flowering stem shoots up they are at once 
distinguished by the length of the branchlets of fastuosa 
Which, in our plant do not protrude beyond the upright 
sheathing bases of the bractes. A similar inflorescence 
May be observed in DiLLentus’s hips of B. Pinguin, which 
Seems to differ from our plant only in the ter rigidity 
and size, and more upright position of the leaves. 
drawing was go a at the Apothecaries’ botanic 
Sarden, at Chelsea, in July last. 
