cuspidate^ finely serrated^ as long as the flowers. Ovary inferior^ smooth^ shining, sharply triangular 
with six placentae standing in pairs near the inner angles of three double partitions. Sepals keeled 
at the backj narrow, acuminate, slightly serrated, somewhat mealy. Petals not quite twice as long, 
erect, pink, obovate, apiculate, naked at the base. Stamens six, equal, as long as the petals. Style 
somewhat protruded, with tlu-ee short slightly twisted stigmas. 
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Billbergias already in cultivation. 
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