116 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Bromelia, 
filament. Germ inferior, obliquely linear, three-celled 
with two vertical rows of ovula in each cell attached 
to the partition. Style rather longer than the sta- 
mina, straight and very stiff. Stigma clavate, perforat- 
ed, three-lobed, lobes bidentate, and acute. Capsule 
inferior, linear, oblong, less convex on one side, and the 
separation marked by two opposite, longitudinal, sharp 
ridges; size of a small cucumber, smooth, dark brown, 
ofa hard, tough fibrous texture, three-celled, three-valv- 
ed, opening from the apex. Seeds many, reniform, in 
two rows, attached to the inner edge of the partition, each 
enveloped in its proper, beautiful azure-coloured axil (the 
robe of Urania.) Perisperm conform to the seed, white, 
friable. Embryo pointing immediately to the umbilicus — 
of the seed, pure white ; varying its shape from that of a — 
common flask to that of a retort. 
BROMELIA. Schreb. gen. n, 540. 
Calyx three-parted. Petals three, with a nectarial — 
scale at the base ofeach, Berry superior, three-celled. 
1. B. ananas. Willd. 2. 7. 
Leaves ciliate with spinous points. Spike tufted, 
Kapa-tsjakka. Rheed. Mal.11.¢.1.and2, _ 
Beng. Ananas. ) ag 
Ido not know that it has been found indigenous in ‘any. a 
part of India. Its not being a native of India is supported 
by the various vernacular names, evidently derived from 
ananas, as well as by their being no Sanscrit name for so _ 
remarkable « a plant, A thing which could scarcely have _ 
happe med if it had been a native of the East Indies. The 
general flowering time in India is about the beginning of _ 
the hot season. sit 
There is a very beautiful striped-leaved variety of this _ 
species found at Malacca, is 
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