414 BLOODWORT FAMILY. 



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

 George III.) 



5. Reglnce, 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. 



CXIV. BROMELIACE^l, 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. 



An&nas sativus, Schult. (or ANANASSA SAT^VA). 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 usneoldes, 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. ILEMODORACKE, BLOODWOKT 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-oo- 

 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. LACHNANTHES. Flower woolly outside. Stamens 3, 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 the base of the ovary ; style at length 3-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. 



8. ALETRIS. Flower scurfy-roughened outside. Stamens 6, included, inserted on the 

 throat of the perianth. Leaves flat and spreading. 



1. LACHNANTHES, REDROOT. (Greek ; woolly blossom.} 11 



L. tinct6ria, Ell. 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. 



