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OF HORTICULTURE. 
Broccoli- -continued. 
Purple Sprouting, Model, Willcove, Leamington, and Cat- 
tell’s Eclipse. 
BRODIÆA (named after J. J. Brodie, a Scotch crypto- 
gamist). Syn. Hookera. ORD. Liliacee. Pretty, slender, 
hardy, or in some positions only half-hardy, bulbs. The 
flowers are usually borne in large clusters or umbels; the 
prevailing colour is blue; coccinea is, however, an exception, 
the flowers being scarlet. The scape is usually straight and 
slender, but strong. Leaves from two to four in number, 
enveloping the part of the scape beneath the surface, and 
procumbent thereon. Most of them are of easy culture in 
rich sandy loam; if grown in pots, a mixture of loam, leaf 
soil, and sand, suits them well. Increased freely by offsets, 
which should be left undisturbed with the parent bulbs till 
they reach a flowering state, when they may be divided and 
replanted in autumn. 
B. capitata (headed),* jl. deep violet-blue, funnel-shaped, dis- 
posed in a compact, many-flowered umbel; valves of the spathe 
eo deep violet. May. l narrow, linear. A, lft. to 2ft. California, 
ae, Bais 
Fig. 281. BRODIÆA COCCINEA, showing Flower and Habit. 
B. coccinea (scarlet).* /l. lin. long, tubular, rich blood-red below, 
the apex of the tube and the segments yellowish-green ; umbels 
composed of five to fifteen mage ag flowers. June. J. linear, 
loose, shorter than the scape. 14ft. California, 1870. Ver 
handsome, distinct from all other species, requiring a warm, well- 
drained, and sunny position, and to remain undisturbed. Syn. 
Brevoortia coccinea. See Fig. 281. (B. M. 5857.) 
B. congesta (close-headed).* fi. blue, with the crown paler ; seg- 
ments cleft at the top ; umbel bearing six to eight blooms. The 
stamens in this species are metamorphosed into fleshy scales, 
which adhere to the mouth of the perianth. Summer. J. few, 
- long, slender, channelled on the inside. Bulb small, roundish, 
much wrinkled. k. lft. Georgia, &c., 1806. A very free- 
growing and rapidly increasing species. 
©. alba (white).* fl, white; in other respects like the type, but 
B 50 Vigorous. 
Sracilis 8 (graceful).* 7. deep yellow, with brown nerves, }in. or 
be t more , In K -flowered umbels. July. l solitary, 
1876. žin. broad, nger than the scape. h. din. to ğin. California, 
Eai scarce and rather tender little species, but very pretty. 
ii flora Qarge-flowered).* fl. bluish-purple, with entire 
ite pt sments ; um) Dak two to seven ea okan 
í l. two to three or more, linear, 
pointed, slender, grooved on the inside, furnished with a few 
b small, roundish, dry and wrinkled. 
tags North America, 1806. Syn. Hookera coronaria. (B. R. 
_ B, Howellii (Howell’s).* 7, x 
bell-shaped purplish-blue, about łin. across, sub- 
ONE acute. Pccon et ig umbels. July aba August. l. 
California, 1880. shorter than the scape. h. 18in. to 24in. 
Brodiza— continued. 
B. ixioides (Ixia-like). See Calliprora lutea. 
B, lactea (milky-white).* fl, white, usually with green midribs, 
šin. to Zin. across, saucer-shaped, in many-flowered umbels. June 
and July. Z. linear, acute, nearly as long as the scape. A. lft, 
to 2ft. California, 1833. Syns. Hesperoscordum lacteum, Milla 
hyacinthina, 
B. multiflora (many-flowered).* jl. blue-purple, very numerous, 
in sub-globose heads. May. J. linear, elongate, lft. to 2ft. long, 
rather fleshy. h. 1ft. to 14ft. California, 1872. (B. M. 5989.) 
B. volubilis hwita). J. rose-coloured, in dense umbels, each 
containing fifteen to thirty blooms; scape twining, sometimes 
12ft. long. July. l. narrow, linear-lanceolate, lft. long, synan- 
thous. California, 1874. Half-hardy bulb. (B. M. 6123. 
BROMELIA (named after Bromel, a Swedish botanist). 
ORD. Bromeliacee. A genus of stove herbaceous perennials, 
allied to the Pineapple. Flowers, corolla three-petaled, 
convolute, erect, or spreading at the top. Leaves densely 
packed, rigid, lanceolate, with spiny margins. Stems short. 
These plants require much the same treatment as Bill- 
bergia. Allied genera are Æchmea, Ananassa, Billbergia, 
Disteganthus, Greigia, Karatas, Ruckia (which see). 
B, antiacantha (opposite-spined). Jl. purple, scarlet. Brazil, 
1864. Syn. B. sceptrum. 
B. bicolor (two-coloured).* fl. scarlet, in a close central sessile 
head, March. l. numerous, narrow, ensiform, outer green, central 
crimson; elegantly radiate. Chili, Syn. B. Joinvillet, B. pit- 
cairniefolia. (B. H. 14.) 
B. bracteata (red-bracted).* Jl. pink; scape elongated ; raceme 
compound i bracts red, ovate-lanceolate. September. J. serrate, 
spiny. h. 2ft. Jamaica, 1785. 
B. Fernandez (Fernanda’s).* fl. yellowish, in ovoid heads ; bracts 
orange-red. July. l. linear-ligulate, 24in. to 30in. long, recurved, 
spiny-edged. Para, 1872. 
B. Joinvillei (Joinville’s). A synonym of B, bwolor. 
B. Karatas. See Karatas Plumieri. 
B. piteairnizefolia (Pitcairnia-leaved). A synonym of B. bicolor. 
B. sceptrum (sceptre-like). A synonym of B. antiacantha and 
Karatas Plumieri. 
BROMELIACEZ:. An extensive order of stemless or 
short-stemmed plants, having rigid, channelled, and usually 
spiny leaves. Flowers very showy; outer perianth three- 
cleft, persistent, inner one of three withering segments ; 
stamens six, inserted in the tube of the perianth. To this 
order belongs the Pineapple. The genera best known in 
gardens are Ananassa, Æchmea, Billbergia, Bromelia, and 
Tillandsia. 
BROMHEADIA (in honour of Sir Edward Finch 
Bromhead). Orp. Orchideæ. A small genus of stove 
orchids, comprising a couple of species, with erect stems, 
large flowers, and cucullate lip, which is parallel with the 
column. For culture, see Ansellia. 
B. palustris (marsh).* ., sepals and calyx white; lip white ex- 
ternally, within streaked with purple, and having a yellow blotch 
in centre; spike terminal, distichous, flexuous, many-flowered, on 
a long peduncle; bracts short, stiff, tooth-like. June. l dis- 
_tichous, oblong-linear, emarginate. h. 2ft. Singapore, 1840. 
(B. R. 30, 18.) 
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Fic. 282. BROMUS BRIZEFORMIS. 
BROMUS (from bromos, the Greek name for a wild 
oat), ORD. Graminee. B. brizaformis (see Fig. 282) is an 
elegant biennial grass, with drooping panicles of spikelets, 
