1782 



*DYCK1A rarifloia. 

 Scattered- flowered Uyckia. 



HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Bromeliace^, Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botany, p. 256.) 



DYCKIA. — Schultes Jil. Calyx tripartitus ; laciniis erectis concavis. 

 Corolla urceolato-campanulata ; petalis erectis rhomboideis carnosis basi nudis. 

 Stamina basi monadelpha ; antheris erectis. Ovarium superum, tripartibile, 

 polyspermum ; sty lis tribus stigmatibusque totidem dilatatis complicatis fim- 



briatis ; ovula disticha. Folia carnosa, epidermide crassd corned paululum 



lepidotd vestita^ margine spinosa. 



D. rarijiora ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis recurvo-patentibus, spica rariflora, spathis 

 f scapi ciliolato-serrulatis, floralibus calycem acutiusculum subsequantibus. 



Schultes Jil. in Rom. et Sch. Syst. veg. v.l . p. 1195. Graham in 



Jamesons Journal, July, 1835, j:?. 202. 



Introduced from the Berlin Garden by the Horticultural 

 Society in 1833. This plant is a native of the Serra of 

 Villa Rica, in Brazil, where it and two more species were 

 discovered by the indefatigable travellers Spix and Martius. 

 It flowers in June and propagates very slowly by offsets, 

 after the manner of an Aloe, with which it agrees in many 

 of its habits. 



* Named in compliment to his Highness the Prince of Salm — Reifferscheid- 

 Dyck, a great lover of Gardening, and one of the most liberal and intelligent of 

 the noble patrons of science of the present day. 



