614 IRIACE.U BROJIELIACE.K. 



C. G. R. — TVitsenia Maura, L. ; B. Reg. 1. t. 5, "21.. C. G. U.—Ano- 

 matheca Juncea, Ker. ; 17, t. 606. % C. G. H — A. cruenta, Lindl ; B. 

 Reg. 16, t. 1369. %. G. G. n.—Melasphcerula intermedia, Swt. (M. 

 graminea, B. M. 17, t. 615; not Red.) % C G. H.—Phalocallis 

 plumbea, Herb. ; B. M. 65, t. 3710. (Cypella plumbea. B. Reg. 1, p. 

 24.) % Valparaiso. — Diasia graminea, DC. % C. G. H. 



ORDER CCXXXIII.— BROMELIACE^E. Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 334 ; 

 Endl. gen.pl. 1, p. 181. 



THE PINE-APPLE TRIBE. 



Stemless or short stemmed plants, by Lindl. referred to 21 genera. All, 

 without exception, are natives of the continent or Islands of America, whence 

 they have migrated eastwards in such numbers, as to have established 

 themselves as part of the present Flora of the West Coast of Africa, and 

 some parts of the E. Indies. The most remarkable is the Ananas, which is 

 well known for the sweetness and fine aromatic flavour of its fruit. No 

 other species is of the same interest. They are all capable of existing in a 

 dry air without contact with the earth ; on which account they are favou- 

 rites in S. American gardens, where they are suspended in the dwelUngs 

 or hung to the balustrades of the balconies ; situations in which they 

 flower abundantly, filling the air with their fragrance. Ropes are made 

 in Brazil from a species of Bromelia, called Grawatha. Pr. Max. Trav. 

 (Lindl.) 



Ananas, Plum. (Schult. syst. 8, p. LXXUL No. 1486. — Ananassa, Lindl. ; 

 B. Reg. 13, t. 1068. app. and t. 1381 ;—EndL gen. pi. I, p. 182.) 

 l.sativus, Schult. (Syst. 8, p. 1283. — Ananassa sativa, Lindl. B. Reg. 

 13, t. 1068, app. — Bromelia Ananas, L., spec, p. 408, excl. S. — Willd. 

 spec. 2, p. 7, excl. y. — Lam. enc. 1, p. 143, excl. t, — Lour. ; — Spreny. 

 syst. 2,p. 20 ^—Roxb.fl. ind. 2, p. 1 16 ;— 7. Grah. Cat. B.pl.p. 222 ;— 

 B. M. 38, t. ]oo4;—Rheed U, t. 1, 2 ^—Rumph. 5, t. 81.) ^^STrTts? 

 Anannas. % W. Indies. Domesticated in the Mascarenhas Islands, 

 the E. Indies, Guinea, &c. Fl. small, bluish, H. S. ; fr. R. and C. S. 

 Pine- apples succeed as far north as 30° in the open air, but are 

 plentiful in the garden of the Taj-muhul at Agra. They are so 

 abundant in Ceylon, parts of Burma, and the Khassya Mountains, 

 as to appear wild there, and are considered most delicious in the two 

 latter places. It is evident, therefore how well suited the climate and 

 soil of many parts of India are to the cultivation of the pine- apple. 

 This is important not only on account of the fruit, but also on account 

 of the fibre, which abounds in the leaves, as with it cloth has been 

 manufactured as fine as eome muslins, {Royle.) 



