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spicuous, toothed, scarlet: bract-lvs. greenish, erect, 

 serrate, not encompassing the infl. S. Amer. B.M. 

 6329. G.Z. 23, pi. 30. Referred to Ananas by Bent- 

 ham & Hooker. 



cc. Ovary terete (cylindrical). 

 D. Head oblong. 



5. LIndenii, Koch (Hoplophytum Lindenii, Morr.). 

 Lvs. dilated and entire at base, the blade minutely 

 toothed and 2-3 ft. long, the tip broad-rounded and 

 short-cuspidate: petals lemon-yellow, twice as long as 

 sepals. Brazil. B.M. 6565. 



DD. Head globose. 



6. calyculata, Baker (Hoplophytum calyculatum, 

 Morr.). Lvs. about 1 ft. long, with an oblong, dilated 

 base, the blade minutely toothed and rounded at the 

 tip, but terminated with a minute cusp: scape shorter 

 than the Ivs., with several deciduous lanceolate bract- 

 lvs.; petals tongue-shaped, not Hin. long, bright yel- 

 low; fl.-bracts small, entire, reddish. S. Amer. 



7. fasciata, Baker (Billbergia fasciata, Lindl. B. rho- 

 docyanea, Lem.). Lvs. 1-2 ft. long, with an oblong en- 

 tire clasping base, the blade strongly toothed and the 

 back marbled with whitish cross-lines, the tip rounded 



128. JSchmea miniata var. discolor. ( X J<c) 



and mucronate: scape 1 ft. high, floccose, the several 

 bract-lvs. pale red and erect; petals %in. long, pink. 

 Brazil. B.M. 4883. B.R. 1130. F.S. 3:207. Infl. some- 

 times forked. 



BB. Infl. branched (or compound), 

 c. Fls. pedicellate. 



8. caerulescens, Baker. Lvs. lJ^-2 ft. long, with 

 small prickles: panicle 4-5 in. long, 2-pinnate, with lax 

 few-fld. crowded branches; petals bluish red, J^in. 

 long: fl.-bracts none or minute. S. Amer. Gt. 1871: 

 694. Produces white berries. 



cc. Fls. sessile. 



D. Sepals blunt. 



B. Floral bracts large. 



9. WeJlbachii, F. Didr. Lvs. rather short, over- 

 topped by the red-stemmed and red-bracted scape: 

 panicle narrow, 1-pinnate, the fls. rather crowded, blue 

 and red. S. Amer. R.H. 1871:170. 



Var. leodiensis, Andre 1 . Lvs. violet and spotted: 

 fls. shorter. Brazil. 



EE. Floral bracts minute or wanting. 



10. fulgens. Brongn. (J?. discolor, Hort.). Lvs. 

 broad, with small distant teeth, with a broad cuspidate 

 end: panicle large, simple above, branched below, gla- 

 brous, bearing numerous fls.; petals blue-tipped, ex- 



ceeding the rich red calyx; fl.-bracts minute or none: 

 branch-bracts yellowish. S. Amer. B.M. 4293. 



11. miniata, Baker. Lvs. serrate with numerous close 

 small teeth: panicle branched throughout; fls. numer- 

 ous; petals blue; ovary red. Var. discolor, Hort., Fig. 

 128, has the Ivs. purple or violet-brown on the back. 

 Brazil. 



DD. Sepals pointed or awned. 



12. ccelestis, Morr. Lvs. linear, the margins with 

 few minute spines or almost smooth: panicle branched 

 below, simple above; fls. about 10 lines long; sepals 

 white; petals blue. Brazil. 



13. spectabilis, Brongn. Lvs. linear, the margins 

 armed with stout spines: panicle laxly pyramidal; fls. 

 about \% in. long; sepals pale rose; petals white, pur- 

 ple at apex. Venezuela and Colombia. R.H. 1875:311. 



AS. 'iitrantiac.fi, Baker=Canistrum aurantiacum. JE. Bdrleei, 

 Baker. Corolla pale yellow. Honduras. dS. brasiliensis, llegel. 

 Lvs. much dilated at base, whitish below, black-toothed: petals 

 light blue: calyx and rachis red; panicle branched. Brazil. Gt. 

 34:1202. &. bromeli&fdlia, Baker. Dense spike: Ivs. whitish 

 below, 3-4 ft. long, serrate or spinescent: fls. light yellow. S. Amer. 

 .*. Cornui, Carr.=.E. nudicaulis. M. Drakedna, AndrS. Lvs. 

 whitish, finely dentate: spike simple and lax; fls. long-tubular, 

 light blue; bracts and ovaries coral-red: berries rose, becoming 

 blue. S. Amer. R.H. 1888, p. 401,desc. X. exsudans, Morr.=Gra- 

 visia exsudans. &. Furstenberffii, Morr.=Streptpcalyx Fursten- 

 bergii. &. gigas, Morr. Floral Ivs. crimson: ns. in a dense infl.; 

 sepals white, lepidote; corolla pale green. Brazil. B.M. 8107. 

 As. glomeriita. Hook.=Hohenbergia stellata, Schult. IE. Hyatrix, 

 Morr. Lvs. lepidote, whitish, crowded: spike oblong, dense; fls. 

 purple, tomentose. Guiana. &. lavandulacea, C. H. Wright. Fls. 

 distichous, paniculate, the sepals awned, green, the petals deep 

 violet. Grenada. B.M. 8005. J3. macracdntha, Brongn. =M. 

 Schiedeana. M. Melindnii, Hook. Panicle 3-pinnate, dense; pet- 

 als bright red: Ivs. spiny, 1 ]4-2 ft. Guiana. B.M. 5235. X. mexi- 

 cxtna, Baker. Lvs. long and large, fine-toothed: panicle 2-pinnate, 

 long and lax, the peduncles mealy; petals crimson. Mex. M. 

 miniMa, Hort.=Billbergia thyrsoideaf?). j. myriophyUa, Morr. 

 Allied to &. distichantha. Lvs. narrow, 2-3 ft., spiny, silvery- 

 scaly on the back: fls. red, the petals fading blue. Trop. Amer. 

 B.M. 6939. M. nudicaulis. Griseb. Lvs. long and straight, brown- 

 toothed: bract-lvs. subtending: spike large, brilliant red; petals 

 yellow. Trop. Amer. R.H. 1885:36 (as j&. Cornui, which is a form 

 with shorter and denser spike). . panicullgera, Griseb. Lvs. 

 large and long: panicle 1-2 ft. long, with few-fld. branches; scape 

 tall, reddish, downy; fls. purple. Trop. Amer. M. Schiedeana, 

 Schlecht. (&. macracantha, Brongn.). Lvs. large, rigid, strongly 

 armed: panicle 3-pinnate, pubescent; fls. pale yellow. Mex. Gt 

 43 p. 175. M. serrdta, Mez. Panicle very dense, bipinnate; fis. 

 distichous, sessile; sepals spinulose; petals violet, mucronate. 

 Martinique. R.H. 1907: 129 &. z(/rina=BilIbergia zebrina. 



L. H. B. 



GEORGE V. NASH.J 



J OLE (from Latin Mgle, one of the Hesperides) . Ru- 

 tacex, tribe Cltrese. A small tree, often spiny, having 

 hard-shelled frs.: Ivs. deciduous: fls. pentamerous with 

 numerous free stamens; ovary with 10 or more cells; 

 ovules numerous in each cell; cells of the fr. without pulp 

 vesicles, filled with gum; seeds woolly and in germina- 

 tion the cotyledons remain hypogeous: the first foliage 

 Ivs. are opposite. Only one species is now recognized. 



Marmelos, Correa (Crateva Mdrmelos, Linn. Belou 

 Mdrmelos, W. F. Wight). Fig. 129. The bael fruit of 

 India. A handsome tree native to N. India, but widely 

 cult, throughout the Peninsula as well as in Ceylon, 

 Burma, Siam and Indo-China. The trifoliolate Ivs., 

 borne on wingless petioles, are thin in texture, prob- 

 ably owing to the fact that they are deciduous. Al- 

 though not so hardy as the deciduous trifoliate orange 

 of China and Japan, the bael fruit tree is said to en- 

 dure a considerable degree of cold (20 F. or lower) in 

 the drier parts of N. W. India. The fr. is greenish yel- 

 low, globular, or nearly so, varying from 2^6 (usually 

 4-5) in. in diam. The fr. of the wild tree is consider- 

 ably smaller than that of the cult. form. The hard 

 shell, j/jjin. thick, is filled with the pale orange, aro- 

 matic pulp in which occur 10-15 long, narrow cells 

 containing the seeds imbedded in transparent tena- 

 cious gum. These cells correspond to the segms. of an 

 orange, while the pulp is made up of the pith and the 

 greatly thickened fleshy membranes separating the 



