[Plate 65.] 
THE LONG-LEAYED BROMELIA. 
(BROMELIA LOXGIFOLIA.) 
A Hothouse Perennial from Guiana, helonglng to the Natural Order 0/ Bromeliads, 
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THE LONG-LEA YED BROMELIA. Leaves very long, 
scurfy, with spiny teeth, curved backwards, and extended 
into a long, linear, bristle-shaped point. Spike globose, 
nearly sessile, many-flowered. Bracts oblong, roundish, 
BROMELIA LONGIPOLIA ; foliis longissimis farinosia 
spinoso-dentatis recurvls m apicera longuin linearera 
setaceo-acummatum productis, spic& globosa subsessili 
multiflora, bracteis oblongis subrotundis sennilatis cuspi- 
serrulate, with a sharp abrupt point, covered with white [ datisalbo-furfuraceis,sepalislineari-lanceolatis subspinosis 
meal. Sepals linear- Ian ceo late, somewhat spiny, mealy, furfuraceis petalis vix duolo brevioribus. 
rather more than half as long as the petals. 
Bromelia longifolia : Rudge^ Plant ce guiancnseSy p. 31, t. 49. 
TpOR tins very fine Bromeliad we are indebted to Mr, Henderson of the Wellington Eoad Nursery, 
who exliibited it at the meetings of the Horticultural Society in August last, as the Tillandsia 
', of some maimfacturer of Garden names. It is a true Bromelia, and was lonn- since 
pubHshed in the work above quoted, with a figure in outhnc made from a dried specimen collected 
in Guiana by Martin- 
Leaves from 1^ to 2 feet long, narrow, channelled, tapering to a fine point, coarsely spiny-toothed, 
wliite beneath, greyish green, and smooth on the upper side, gracefully curving away from the centre. 
Head of flowers like a rich rose-coloured cone, standing on a short stalk, with a few narrow crimson 
spiny bracts at its base, powdered with a white meal. The proper bracts are broadly ovate, concave. 
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