414 BLOODWORT FAMILY. 



6. STRELITZIA. (^Charlotte of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, wife of 

 Oeorge III.) 



S. Reg) nee. Ait. Paradise or Bird's Tongue Flower. A large stem- 

 less conservatory plant, from the Cape of Good Hope, winter-flowering, 

 with 2-ranked root-leaves, their long rigid petioles bearing an ovate-oblong 

 thick blade. 



CXrV. BROMELIACEJ;, PINEAPPLE FAMILY. 



Tropical or subtropical plants (mostly herbs), the greater 

 part epiphytes, with dry or fleshy, mostly rigid, smooth or 

 scurfy leaves, often prickly edged, and perfect flowers with 6 

 stamens and 6-cleft perianth. Represented by several species 

 of Tillandsia in Florida, a small one further north, and several 

 species of various genera in choice conservatories. 



Andnas sathus, Schult. (or AnanAssa sativa). Pineapple. Cult, for 

 its " fruit," which is a fleshy cone-like spike, comprising the fleshy berries 

 and bracts ; flowers abortive. It is sometimes grown for foliage, especially 

 a striped-leaved variety. Trop. Amer. 



Till^dsia usneoides, Linn. Long Moss or Black Moss. Hanging 

 from trees in the low country from the Dismal Swamp, S. ; gray -scurfy, 

 with thread-shaped, branching stems, linear-awl-shaped recurved leaves, 

 and small, sessile, green flowers ; the ovary free, forming a narrow, 3- 

 valved pod, filled with club-shaped hairy-stalked seeds ; flowers summer. 

 (Lessons, Fig. 88.) 



CXV. H^MODORACE^, BLOODWORT FAMILY. 



Fibrous-rooted, herbaceous plants, with perfect and regular 

 3-6-androus flowers, which are scurfy or woolly outside ; peri- 

 anth tubular below and united with the 3-celled ovary, 6-lobed 

 above ; style 1, sometimes 3-parted ; capsule loculicidal, 3-co- 

 seeded, crowned or inclosed by the persistent perianth ; leaves 

 usually equitant. 



* Calyx tube adherent to the whole length of the ovary ; style not parted. 



1. LACHNANTHK8. Flower woolly outside. Stamens 8, opposite the 3 inner divisions of 



the perianth, the filaments exserted, and the anthers fixed by the middle. Leaves, 

 equitant. 



» » Calyx tube joined only to th^ base of the ovary ; style at length Z-parted. 



2. LOPHIOLA. Flower densely woolly outside. Stamens 6, included, inserted on the 



base of the perianth, the anthers fixed by the base. Leaves equitant. 



3. ALETRIS. Flower scurfy-roughened outside. Stamens 6, included, Inserted on the 



throat of the perianth. Leaves flat and s;)reading. 



1. LACHNANTHES, REDROOT. (Greek ; woolly blossom.) % 



L. tinct6ria, Ell. Stem 2"^-?.° high ; leaves sword-shaped, scattered 

 on the stem and clustered at its base ; flowers dingy yeUow, in a terminal 

 den.se compound cyme. Sandy swamps, Ma,ss., S, 



