N itu 



BROMELlAi I .1. 







XI. II. BROMEL1 vi I B 



i. Kv. ; M 



or short-stemmed plants, with rigid channelled leai 

 cnticular scales, and spiny at the L Flowers with 



or panii Calyx 



stent, never with 

 cohering with the o» r ary, i 

 ceous, Bometimi - 

 coloured, withi 

 or unequal, rigidly imbrical 

 6, in- rted iut,i the tul 

 corolla ; anthers openh 

 3-celled, many-seeded : ovu 

 siy!.' single ; stigma :'.-i..l 

 often twisted. Fruit capsular or succu- 

 lent, 3-celled, mauj •-• ■ 

 merable in mof 



with a leathery Bkin, or tapering i 

 slender thri ad ; embryo tap - . 

 or straight, minute, lying in tin 

 mealy albumen, with the ra li '■■ 

 the hilum. 

 Stratiol 

 bo much the f'"li:u' 

 deril probable, taking tin- fructific . 







J 







into account, thai tin 





\. \ i. 



the Bromelwort < >rder is «ii!i I 

 It is, 



by it- Beeds li aly albui 



circumstance also cuts it off from the Amaryllids and Hypoxids. Tin habit 

 irorta is peculiar; they are hard dry-leaved plants, often with a scurf 



ea an- frequently capable of sustaining long drought without 

 There can be no doubt about the Order belonging to an ■ 

 the whole race of Tillandaiaa has the ovary free : but it I 



so, but has always bo much union t" the calyx at tl 

 tendency. Besid b, the sepals are always as fleshy, t.. the 1 

 Bolutely incorporated with the ovary. Nevertheless, Adrieu d I 

 ii. i.i as a peculiar t hrder, which he calls Tillands 



All, without exception, arc natives of the continent or islai 

 have migrated eastwards in such numbers as to bavt i stal li 

 the present Flora of the west coast of Africa, and some parts of th< I 

 are all capable of existing in a dry hot air without contact with th 

 account they are favourites in South American 

 the buildings, >>r hung to the balustrades ol the bale 

 Bower abundantly, filling the air with fragrant 



The most remarkable Bpecies is the Pine Apple, or Inanas, wl 

 tlu- Bweetni — and fine aromatic flavour of it- fruit ; in ite 

 its fruit is excessively acid, burning th In the W« 



along with Bronn lia Pinguin and others, 

 the secretion of urine. Tillandaia usneoides hangs down 

 of tropical America like long dry beards, and is 



\. VI. — 1, Flower of I 

 the same ; 4. its seed ; 5 i •*" J ■ 



7. a cross section of the ovarj ol 



