ic co + P $. ká al * = 
+ x? : ¥. x ¥ a pi i j z * 7 ý: € ú 
v we. a ~ oak s * 
A 4 sA Bs. ` x = & 
- S ee 5 
190 # THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, | ¥ e 
i diera—continued. EE a? 1 Billbergia—conlinved. ee A 
fre wing and profuse-flowering species. SYN. = ialis. See ameoena (pleasing). — aa w bey i ped viih Sluta 
Fig. 51. (B. M. 1507.) E è q loosely panicled ; bracts c ured. ERS al Brazil ith 
me j * (eR 3). y et y 8 ily spits razil, 1817. 
wes. We ed yas 
B. Baraq uin’s).* een; spikes ihe ‘the 
. wor f or five lar, ph oblong-lanceo- 
+ 
1G. 251. PRurnine Porto OF » BILLARDIERA L LONGIFLORA. 
j (cdattighaiie) Lorda a e en i 
t (oval-leaved}y Asynonymof B:longifora. ` 
scandens (climbing).* fl. cream-colo at length lish, 
solitary ; pe Is sa ‘length as the re se Stas i Bete ber. 
a’ , entire. Bran , when young, villous. New 
Holland, 1795. SYNS. B. mutabilis, . angustifolia. (B. M. 1313.) 
BILLBERGIA (named after J. G. Billberg, a Swedish 
botanist). . ORD. Bromeliacew. A genus of handsome stove 
plants. lowers borne on light panicles; calyx three- 
parted ; corolla of three convolute petals, scaly at the base; 
stamens inserted into the base of the perianth. Leaves 
harsh, tigid. These require much the same treatment as 
nended for Achmea. The most suitable soil is 
f B; of peat, leaf soil, and loam in about equal parti 
» which is added some sharp sand, to keep it open and 
porous. Free and perfect drainage is absolutely neces- 
ay for the successful culture of this class of plants, and 
E yer of moss should be placed over the crocks previous 
filling the pots with soil. Although fond of heat, 
gias will, when in flower, bear removal to a cooler 
tham a stove; and, if they are kept a little dry at 
od. The ‘stronger growing kinds thrive well 
woll-dininsd loam and leaf poig Propagation 
is effected by carefully taking off the suckers which 
the oes after the plants hase” done flowering ; 
this, they ad be allowed" to attain 
me more mature, and are in 
ing. The best method to.a 
sucker in a hand and gen 
tly tills 
e by the removal of 
trim the } a few of the lower 
leaves, and then insert each sucker separately in a small 
pot, in sharp : A bottom heat of about 80deg. 
will greatly root-g failing this 
“the Siter 
| - (B. R. 1068.) 
lee ACT ps s \ PE 
na aa By es + 
“upper aa pendulots bear: 
late, bright scarle bracts at the fury of the flowers; the stem 
above the bracts is‘hoary white. ly spring. l. ligulate, taper- 
ing to a point, where, as Sa as at the edges, they are armed with F 
mhar reddish s spines, -a ee with white > ae 
SCUT: y bars... te (£. H. SN 
B. chlorosticta Greens Syhowyinous with B. Saundersii, 
B, iridifolia (Iris-leaved).* „fl. red and yello a" tipped with blue, - 
in drooping spikes ; rachis ‘bracts crimso March. L lanceo- 
s Tate, ensiform, 1ift., grey beneath. h. lft. Rio goi, 1825. 
Liboniana (Libon’s).* jl., outer herak segments beautiful _ 
. ‘coral red, about half as long as the i Med ones, which are whitish. 
at the base, and a splendid pu © ero Winter, oad in a 
detise rosette. A. 1ft. Brazil, 1 a M. 5090.) 
B. Lietzei (Lietz’s).* fl. in loose terminal. racemes, eas! È. Te 
tended by lanceolate pink bracts; sepals rosy pink, half aioe 
as the greenish corolla. 1. tufted, ligulate, acute ; Margin spiny. — 
Brazil, 1881. A double-flowered ‘variety, with petaloid stamens, 
is mentioned by M. Morren, which is Lag ee in being the = 
first double-flowered Bromeliad yet recorded. (B. H“ 1881, 97.) - 
» marmorata (marbled).* ji. deep blue; calyces green, tipped 
with blue ; bracts very large, leafy, oblong, bright scarlet ; panicles 
erect, bral iched, much longer than the leaves... l. broadly ligulate, 
sheathin at the base, truncate-mucronate at the apex ; edges 
regularly toothed, deep groen, freely blotched and ‘barred, 4 
wit dull reddish-brown. (1. H. 2, 48.) i 
B, Moreli (Morel’s).* fl., sepals vad. densely woolly, less than © ~ 
half as long as the purplish-violet petals ; spike dense, drooping; -~ 
bracts e, deep ig red, much longer than the solitary alls r 
ebruary. 7. arching, lanceolate, shining green on both a 
surfaces ; marginal spines few and weak. h. lft. Brazil, 1848. 2 
An excellent basket plant. Syn. B. Moreliana. (B. H. 1873, 1, 2.) ` g 
B. Moreliana (Morel’s). “Synonymous with B, Moreli. è 
a 
Fic, 252. FLOWERS OF BILLBERGIA NUTANS. 
B, nutans (nodding). ju, es reddish ; ellowish-green, 
“Pee Ge suis Seta ai whee 
ryge ros e inter. 
Bi y bracts, AARO ing in ing spi 
7 h. Init. 
Brazil, 1868." See Soe fig. 252, (B. M. 6428.) ES Ta 
1 
B. (pallid). fl enish-white; ovary deepl; 
iat! pendulous ; act orl Eei te, of a beautiful 
sE, and potted on the Dr u 
grooved ; 
