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spiouous, toothed, scarlet; bract-lvs. groonisli, erect, 

 sernite. not onconipassing the infl. S. Amor. B.M. 

 lKi2i». Cx.Z. 23, pi. .'JO.^Roferred to Ananas by Bent- 

 haiu iS: Hooker. 



cc. Ovary terete (cylindrical). 

 D. Head oblong. 

 .'). LIndenii, Koch (lloplophi/lum Lindenii, Morr.). 

 Lvs. ililattHl anil entire at base, the blade minutely 

 tiHithinl anil 2-3 ft. Iouk, the lip l)riiail-rounileil and 

 short -euspidate: petals lemon-yellow, twice a.s long as 

 sepals. Brazil. B.M. OoC"). 



DD. Ilend glohoxe. 



6. calyculata, Baker (Hoplo/ihi/ttim calycalatum, 

 Morr. I. Lvs. about 1 ft. loufi. witli an oblong, dilated 

 base, the blade minutely tool iied anil rounded at the 

 tip, but terminated with a minute eusp: seape shorter 

 than the lvs., with several deeidunus lanceolate bract- 

 lvs.; petals tongue-shaped, not ' ^i'l. long, bright yel- 

 low; il.-braets small, entire, reddish. S. Amer. 



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

 docydnea, 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 rounrled 



128. Achillea miniata var. discolor. ( X H) 



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

 bract-lvs. pale red and croet; petals ?4'i. long, pink. 

 Brazil. B.M. 4883. B.U. 1130. F.S. 3; 207.— Infl. some- 

 times forked. 



BB. Infi. 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-fid. crowded branches; petals bluish red, Jsin. 

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

 694. — Produces white berries. 



cc. Fls. sessile. 



D. Sepals blunt. 



E. Floral Ijracls large. 



'.). Weilbachii, F. Didr. Lvs. rather short, over- 



'op[)(d by the red-stemmofl and red-bracted scape; 



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



and red. S. .\mer. R.H. 1871 : 170. 



\'ar. leodiensis, .\ndr6. Lvs. violet and spotted; 

 fl.s. shorter. Brazil. 



EK. Floral bracts minute or wanting. 

 10. ffilgens, Brongn. (/E. 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. Ainer. B.M. 4293. 



1 1 . miniata, Baker. Lvs. serrate wit h numerous close 

 small teeth: panicle branched throughout; fls. numer- 

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

 128, has the lvs. |)urple or violet-brown on the back. 

 Brazil. 



DD. Sepals pointed or awned. 



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



few minute spines or ahnost smooth: panicle branched 

 below, sim|ile 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 1'4 in. long; sepals pale rose; petals white, pur- 

 ple at apex. Venezuela and Colombia. R.H. 187.5:311. 



.-E. aurantiaca, B;xker=Canistrum aurfintiacum. — .^. Bdrleei, 

 Baker. Corolla pale yellow. Homluras. — .^. brasiliensis, Kegel. 

 Lvs. much dilated at ba.se, whitish below, black-toothed; petals 

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

 34:1202. — .fi. brometia^fdlia. Baker. Den.se spike: Iva. whitish 

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

 — .S. C'ornui, Carr.=.E. nudicauli.s. — ^. Drakcdna, Andr6. Lvs. 

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

 light blue; bracts and ovaries coral-red: berries ro.se, becoming 

 blue. S. Amer. R.H. 1888, p. 401, desc. — J?, exswrfares. Morr.=Gra- 

 \nsia exsudans. — .^. Furstenbergii, Morr.^Streptocalyx Fursten- 

 bergii. — .£. giffas, Morr. Floral lvs. crimson: fls. in a dense infl.; 

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

 ^. glomerdta, Hook.=Hohenbergia stellata, Schult. — ^. Hystrix, 

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

 purple, tomentose. Guiana. — .'E. lavandtilacea, C. H. Wright. Fls. 

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

 violet. Grenada. B.M. 8005. — ^. macracdnlka, Brongn. =^. 

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

 als bright red: lvs. spiny, 1 }'2-2 ft. Guiana. B.M. 5235. — ^. mexi- 

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

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

 minidta, Hort.^Billbergia thyrsoidea(?). — .^. myriophylla, Morr. 

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

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

 B.AI. 6939. — .'E. nudicauHs. Griseb. Lvs. long and straight, brown- 

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

 yellow. Trop. Amer. R.H.1885:30 (as -^5. Cornui, which is a form 

 with shorter and denser spike). — .-ff. panicultgera, Griseb. Lvs. 

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

 t:ill, reddish, downy; fls. purple. Trop. Amer. — .^. .Schiedeana, 

 Schlecht. (M. macracantha, Brongn. 1. Lvs. large, rigid, strongly 

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

 43 p. 175. — J^. serrdta, Mez. Panicle very dense, bipinnate; fls. 

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

 Martinique. R.H. 1907:129-— .*£. ze6rina=^Billbergia zebrina. 



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George V. NAsa.f 



.^GLE (from Ijatin .€gle, one of the Hesperides) . Ru- 

 tace!e, tribe CUrex. A small tree, often spiny, having 

 hard-shelled frs.: lvs. 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 

 lvs. are opposite. — Only one species is now recognized. 



Marmelos, Correa (Crat'eva Mdrmelos, Linn. Beluu 

 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 lvs., 

 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 anil 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 greeni.sh yel- 

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

 A-h) in. in diam. The fr. of the wild tree is consider- 

 ably smaller than (hat of the cult. form. The hard 

 shell, '^in. thick, is filled with the pale orange, aro- 

 matic pulp in which occur 10-1.') long, narrow cells 

 containing the seeds imbedded in tran.sparent tena- 

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

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

 greatly thickened fleshy membranes separating the 



