No. 1819. 

 BILLBERGIA BICOLOR. 



Class. Order. 



HEXANDR/A MONOGYN1A 



This is a native of Rio de Janeiro : it has 

 been lately introduced, and differs from 

 nudicaulis in its obtuse petals, its much 

 narrower leaf, and its spines being green in 

 lieu of black ; the leaves also are green at 

 their base. It grows in the forests of Brazil 

 upon trees, rooting into the rough bark. 

 The luxuriance of vegetation in that im- 

 mense country is prodigious. In some 

 parts the woods are wholly impenetrable, 

 the very trunks of the trees almost touching 

 each other, and the numbers of plants of 

 this family, also of Orchidese, Ferns, and 

 many others growing upon them, most 

 astounding. Their difficulty of access is so 

 great as almost to preclude the possibility 

 of ever discovering the greater proportion 

 of them. 



How astonishing is God in His wonderful 

 works ! how admirably are they formed ! 

 how diversified ! yet all full of elegance and 



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