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84 HELICHRYSUM scorpioides. 



Labillarcl nov. Ml. 2. 45. t. 191. DC.prodr. 6. 194. 



This very beautiful New Holland plant has lately flowered 

 in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it had 

 been sent by R. Mangles, Esq. who imported the seeds. It 

 looks like a yellow everlasting-flower ; the heads are large, 

 very convex, bright yellow, almost metallic in their brilliancy; 

 and when opened beneath a bright sun are as handsome as 

 those of any composite flower I am acquainted with. It is a 

 greenhouse herbaceous plant, propagated by cuttings. 



85. BROMELIA discolor. 



B. discolor ; foliis angustis acutis spinoso-serratis glabris, floribus arctissime in 

 strobilum sessilem lateralem glomeratis squamis rigidis pungentibus spinoso- 

 serratis, calycibus ovariisque triangularibus glaberrimis. 



Folia viridia, spinoso-serrata, glabra, 2-pedalia, basi dilatata ; spinis nigrescenti- 

 bus, aequalibus. Strobili sessiles, axillares, inter folia exteriora, ovata, rigida, 

 3 pollices longa ; squamis ovato-oblongis, rigidis, arctissime appressis, ser- 

 ratis, exterioribus brunneis, lucidis, subfurfuraceis acutis, interioribus apice 

 viridibus acuminatissimis ; intimis albis, carinatis, floribus brevioribus. 

 Flores corymbose glomerati, fasciculati, bractearum exteriorum longitudine, 

 quisque bracteolas carinatse axillaris. Calyx glaber, triqueter, decolor, sepa- 

 lis carinatis, inaequalibus, margine membranaceis imbricatis. Petala 3, 

 rosea, mox discolora, oblonga, erecta, convexa, unguiculata, basi in tubum 

 longum connata, calyce longiora, inappendiculata. Stamina 6, erecta; 3 

 petalis opposita basi limbi inserta ; 3 alterna basi dilatata utrinque dentata 

 petala connectentia. Antherte lineares, erectse, sagittatse, rectse. Ovarium 

 glabrum, omnin5 inferum, triquetrum, 3-loculare, polyspermum ; ovulis uni- 

 seriatis ; stylus 3-queter; stigmata 3, linearia, facie interiore glandulosa, 

 erecta, non tortilia. 



A rare South American stove plant, which flowered lately 

 in the possession of Miss Gamier, of Wickham, near South- 

 ampton, who obtained it from South America. It has sessile 

 spiny heads of dull pink flowers, which change to brown, 

 and is not a handsome species. B. longifolia of Rudge 

 seems its nearest ally. It will be seen by the foregoing- 

 description, that it differs in some respects from the pani- 

 cled Bromelias, especially in the long tube of the corolla, 

 and the long simple stigmas. There does not, however, 

 appear to be any immediate necessity for creating a new 

 genus for it. 



