414 BLOODWOUT FAMILY. 



6. STRELITZIA. {Charlotte of Mecklenburrjh-StreUtz, wife of 

 (uM.ri^c III.) 



S. Reg)nce, Ait. r.vRAmsE or Birm's Tongue Flower. A large stem- 

 less conservatory plant, from tlie Cape of Gocd Hope, winter-tlowering, 

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

 thick blade. 



cxrv. bromeliacej:, pineapple family. 



Tropical or sul)tr()i)ical 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. Eepresented by several species 

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

 sp3eies of various genera in choice conservatories. 



Andnas satiyus, 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. 



Tillandsia usneoides, Linn. Long Moss or Black Moss. Hanging 

 from trees in the low country from the Dismal Swamp, vS.; 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^MODORACEiE. BLOODWOPtT 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-o3- 

 seeded, crowned or inclosed by the persistent perianth ; leaves 

 usually equitant. 



* Calj/x tube adherent to the ivhole length of the ovary ; style not parted. 



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



the perianth, the filaments e.vserted, and the anthers lixeil by the middle. Leaves 

 equitant. 



* « Calyx tube joined only to the base of the ovary ; style at length Z-parted. 



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



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



3. ALKTKIS. Flower scurfy-roufrbened outside. Stamens 6, included, inserted on the 



throat of the perianth. Leaves flat and spreading. 



1. LACHNANTHES, REDROOT. (Greek ; woolly blossom.) 2/ 



L. tinct6ria. 1011. Stem 2"-3° high ; leaves sword-shaped, scattered 

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

 dense compound cyme. Sandy swamps, Mass., S. 



