340 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



renders it eminently handsome. When large it resembles very 

 much the common Tr-tree. 



Chamserops. 



C. Martiana. Very beautiful for its leaves, which are borne on 

 long footstalks, and are fan-formed, with the ribs projecting like 

 spikes to a great distance all round from the body of the leaf. 



BKOMELIACE^E. 



Ananassa. 



A. sativa : var. striatifolia THE STKIPE-LEAVED PINE APPLE. 

 Native of Malacca : rarely, if ever, known to blossom here ; 

 but a most beautiful plant for its leaves, which are marked 

 longitudinally with stripes of primrose, red, and deep green. 

 It looks most handsome when cultivated in a pot. The soil 

 for it I consider best is a mixture of leaf-mould and sand 

 in which an abundance of Cocoa-nut fibre is incorporated. 

 Propagated by division. 



JEchmea. 



A genus of plants with strap-formed, undulating, clasping 

 leaves, bearing, in August and September, compound spikes of 

 crimson bead-like buds, surmounted by small unpretending 

 flowers. Cultivation the same as for the last. The two follow- 

 ing are to be seen in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. 



1. JE. fulgens. With broad thick leaves and flower-stems, and 

 buds of a coral-crimson throughout. 



2. JE. discolor. A more slender description of plant, with the 

 flower-buds tipped with dark purple. 



Billbergia. 



Plants with thick succulent aloe-like leaves ; should be grown 

 in pots, with the same mode of culture as the foregoing. The 

 following are met with in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. 



1. B. bicolor. Bears in April middling-sized white flowers; 

 of little merit. 2. B. tricolor ; 3. B. vittata ; 4. B. melanantha. 



5. B. pyramidalis. Bears in February bright pink flowers. 



6. B\ zonata. Bears in the Hot months small white insigni- 



