Lanbertiane. : Tab. 1. 
BROMELIA FASTUOSA. 
Nat. Orv. Bromelie, Juss. Linn. Syst. Hexandria Monogynia. 
BROMELIA L£., Juss. Calyx duplex, uterque tubulosus, exterior brevior 3-fidus, interior longior petaloideus 3-par- 
titus laciniis ungue appendiculatis. Stamina summo calyci inserta, aut glandule calycine supra germen producte 
(indé quasi epigyna?). Bacca umbilicata polysperma. Plante herbacee, quedam parasitice ; folia radicalia ca- 
naliculata, marginibus sepe dentato-spinosis. Juss. Gen. 50. 
oe 
Bromelia, foliis ciliato-spinosis acuminatis mucronatis, racemo rigido composito, racemulis indivisis, floribus sessilibus, 
bracteis inferioribus linearibus subsecundis. 2%. 
Descr. Acaulis. olia circa caulem fasciculata, 3—5-pedalia, rigida, concaviuscula, ensiformia, undique patentia, distanter 
spinis uncinatis ciliata, viridia, squamulis minutissimis farinosa; superiora in bracteas abeuntia, coccinea. Bractew ad basin 
racemulorum, coccinee ; inferiores anguste, demum integerrima, basi floccose, deflexe ; superiores ovate, plicate, furfuracee, 
pallidiores, erecta. acemus rigidus, compositus, brachiatus, cubitalis, leté viridis, undique squamis albis furfuraceus. Flores 
sessiles, carnosi, 2-unciales, secundi, bracteolis scariosis suffulti. Perianthium superum, duplex : exterius 3-partitum, laciniis 
ovatis, acutis, leté viridibus ; interius 3-partitum, ovario longius, laciniis oblongis, canaliculatis, in tubum conniventibus, car- 
mMOsinis, margine pallidioribus, glaberrimis, apice intus furfuraceis, exterioribus 3-plo longioribus, post anthesin persistentibus, 
spiraliter contortis. Stamina laciniis perianthii opposita, earumque basibus inserta, submonadelpha, inclusa. ilamenta subu- 
lata, carnosa. Anthere lineares, innate, albide, apiculate, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, super stigmatibus conniventes. Ad 
basin staminum laciniis interioribus perianthii oppositorum fovea adest alta, nectarifera ; sed squamule nulle. Ovarium glau- 
cum, inferum, obtusé trigonum, carnosum, triloculare, ovulis plurimis, placent# axili distiché insertis. Stylus 1, subulatus, 
apice trifidus, filamentorum longitudine: Jodi recti, carnosi, conniventes. Stigmata simplicia, dilatata, obscuré fimbriata. Frac- 
tus immaturus carnosus. 
Tee de ENTS 
The seeds of this truly magnificent plant were received, seven or eight years ago, from Mexico by Mr. Lambert, 
in whose stove at Boyton, in the autumn of last year, it produced flowers, for the first time, probably, in Europe. 
From its peculiar mode of growth, it is impossible for any drawing to eive an adequate idea of the appearance it then 
presented. Let the reader imagine to himself a plant about three feet high, formed of a mass of leaves shaped like 
those of the common pine-apple, but from three to five fect long ; let the lowest be of a dull dark-green, and the up- 
permost of an intensely brilliant scarlet ; the whole surmounted by a pyramidal tuft of flowers of the most exquisitely 
delicate crimson ; anda faint idea may then be formed of the superb appearance of Bromelia Jastuosa in perfection. 
Nor are these beauties ephemeral. Not to mention the length of time during which the scarlet leaves remain, both 
before and after flowering,—and which, indeed, only perish with the plant itself,—the flowers continue to open daily 
in long succession, and, even in decay, exhibit traces of their former grandeur. In favourable situations, too, they 
doubtless would be succeeded by fruit inferior only in beauty to themselves. 
It is an undescribed species, resembling in some respects Bromelia paniculigera and bracteata of Swartz ; both of 
which, besides other differences, are much smaller plants. Its habit is that of true Brometia ; we mean as consti- 
tuted by Plumier; and, surely, is so different from that of the pine-apple, his ANAnassa, that we can scarcely doubt the 
propriety of considering them distinct genera. But at present we have no opportunity of ascertaining the respective 
limits, and distinctive characters, if such there be, of each. We can, therefore, only call the attention of those to the 
subject, who may have more ample means of investigating the whole order than we are so fortunate as to possess. 
_ Mr. Lambert has suggested to us, and we think with great propriety, that this is the plant figured by Baron Hum- 
boldt in the fore-ground of the forty-first plate of the Alas Pittoresque, growing at the foot of the curious 
volcanoes of Turbaco. Should this conjecture be correct, this plant is 
little water 
a native of New Granada as well as of Mexico. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
{= In order to avoid unnecessary repetition, we think it right to premise, that in every plate the details 
to be understood as, more or less, magnified ; unless the contrary is stated. | 
1. Flower, and small portion of the Rachis. 
of fructification are 
2. 'The same vertically divided, showing the nectariferous cavity, the insertion of 
the Stamina, and structure of the Ovarium. 3. Stamina. 4, Pollen. 
5. Transverse section of the Ovarium. 6. Style, and 
Stigmas. 
