210 



Carl Mez. — Bromeliaceae. 



metralis, ad 0,15 m diam. metiens; ramis ascendenti-curvatis, ad 0,12 m longis, basi laxe 

 apice densius flores ad 40 gerentibus ; bracteis florigeris vix ultra 2 mm longis. Flores 

 pedicellis ad 5 mm longis, tenuissimis stipitati, glaberrimi, ad 6 mm longi; sepalis vix 2 mm 



longis ; petalis subduplo 

 longioribus ; antheris ad 

 0,75 mm longis. 



Heimat völlig unbe- 

 kannt, vielleicht Colom- 

 b i e n. — Die Art ist in den 

 Gärten nicht selten. — 

 Fig. 55. 



33. Pitcairnia L'Herit. 



Pitcairnia L'Herit. Sert. 

 Angl. VII. (1789) 7, t. 11; 

 Willd. Spec. II. (1799) 10; 

 Roem. et Schult. Syst. VII. 

 (1830) LXIX, 1237; Endl. 

 Gen. (1737) 183; Beer, 

 Bromel. (1857) 17, 50; Benth. 

 et Hook. fll. Gen. PI. III. 

 (1883) 665; Wittm. in Engl, 

 u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 II. 4. (1888) 50; Bak. Bromel. 

 (1889) 89; Andre, Bromel. 

 Andre. (1889) 17; Mez in 

 Mart. Fl. Brasil. III. 3. (1894) 

 431 et in DC. Monogr. Phaner. 

 IX. (1896) 344; Harms in 

 Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzen- 

 fam. 2. Aufl. XVa. (1830) 

 113. — Hepetis Swartz, Prodr. 

 (1788) 4, 56. — Spirastigma 

 L'Herit. ex Pfeiffer, Nomencl. 

 II. (1841) 1239. — Cochlio- 

 petalum Beer in Flora 

 XXXVII. (1854) 346 et 

 Bromel. (1857) 17, 68. — 

 Orthopetalum Beer, Bromel. (1857) 17, 68. — Phlomostachys Beer, 1. c. 16, 45. — Neu- 

 mannia Brongn. in Ann. Sei. Nat. 2. ser. XV. (1841) 369. — Lamproconus Lern, in Jard. 

 Fleur. II. (1852) sub t. 127. — Melinonia Brongn. ex Morr. Cat. Brom. Jard. Liege 

 (1873) 11. — Pepinia Brongn. ex Andre in 111. Hortic. XVII. (1870) 32. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Sepala libera, symmetrica vel subsymmetrica vel rarius con- 

 spicue asymmetrica, apice saepissime acuta nunquam spinöse mucronata. Petala libera, 

 rarissime revoluta regulariter disposita saepissime dispositione 3/0 zygomorpha, per anthesin 

 sueto plus minus decurva, nunc ligula singula nunc nulla aueta. Stamina petalis breviora 

 vel rarissime longiora, per anthesin emergentia vel rarissime porreeta; filamentis ser. I. 

 liberis, ser. IL cum petalis nonnunquam plus minus alte connatis; antheris angustissimis 

 saepissime linearibus, basi incisis equitantibus ; pollinis granulis unisulcatis. Ovarium 

 nunc saepissime circa medium perianthio cinetum semisuperum nunc rarius fere omnino 

 vel rarissime plane superum (tunc, it quod species a Puya distinguit, Capsula haud loculieide 

 dehiscens et petala zygomorpha!) nunc raro pro maxima parte inferum; stylo filiformi; 



Fig. 55. Bakerantha tillandsioides (Andre) L. B. Smith. A Habitus. 

 B Inflorescentiae ramus. — See. Rev. Hortic. LXI. (1889) 84. 



