414 BLOODWORT FAMILY. 



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

 George III.) 



S. Reglnce, Ait. PARADISE or BIED'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. 



CXTV. BROMELIACEJ1, 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. 



Andnas satffj/s, 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. HJEMODORACKE, BLOODWOKT FAMILY. 



Fibrous-rooted, herbaceous plants, with perfect and regular 

 3-6-audrous 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 ^-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.) % 



L. tinctdria, 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. 



