66 MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. AREGELIA .. 
deciduis) immersis dense punctulata, subtus densius lepidibus albidis 
conspersa evittata, nunc omnino nunc partim triste fusco-vinose 
colorata maculisque parvis læte viridibus conspersa. Inflorescentia 
bracteis calycibusque sanguineo-purpureis plantæ centrum totum per 
anthesin purpureum efficiens; bracteis perobtuse carinatis, basi mar- 
gineque albis pellucidis apice sanguineis. Flores pedicellis sepius 
usque ad 10 mm. longis, glabris stipitati; sepalis ad 12 mm. longis, 
paullo ultra 2 mm. connatis. Petala sepalis ad 10 mm. longiora, 
fauce albo excepto pulchre violaceo-cærulea venis indigotinis ornata, 
perlonge acuta. Stamina petalorum e fauce emergentia ; filamentis 
crassiusculis, ad 7 mm. liberis; antheris albidis, anguste ellipticis, 
basi sagittatim incisis apice rotundatis minuteque imposite mucronu- 
latis, + 5 mm. longis, prope medium dorsifixis. Ovarium ellipsoi- 
deum, apice manifeste constrictum, basi in pedicellum subito con- 
tractum, -- 8 mm. longum; tubo epigyno brevissimo; placentis 
- interno loculorum angulo in 3/4 altit. affixis. 
Brasilia, in caldaria introducta. (V. v. in hort. Lugd-Bat., Eichborn., 
Vratislav.) 
3. A. sarmentosa; foliis utriculum apice constrictum haud 
efformantibus, margine spinulis validiusculis dense et perconspicue 
armatis, evittatis; inflorescentia submultiflora; bracteolis maximis, 
perlate sublinearibus, apice late rotundatis; floribus ad 27 mm. lon- 
gis; sepalis glabris, apice breviter aculis nec mucronatis ; petalis 
albis. — Nidularium sarmentosum Regel in Gartenfl. 1870, p. 268 et 
Act. hort. Petrop. I, p. 95; Mez in Fl. bras. p. 231. — Karatas sar- 
n.entosa Bak. Brom. p. 5. — Regelia sarmentosa Lindm. in Oefvers. 
Akad. Holm. 1890, p. 542. — Æchmea immersa hort. ap. Regel, 
l. c. — Nidularium verecundum Morr. ap. Bak. 1. c. 
Folia + 10 perdense rosulata, basi in vaginam elongate oval 
- dilatata, rigida, exteriora suberecta interiora per anthesin quoque 
erecta, spinulis hamulosis, usque ad 4 mm. longis armata, apicem 
versus (fere usque a basi) perlonge angustata demumque in spinam 
terminalem valide pungentem desinentia longissime quasi triangu- 
laria, += 0,25 m. longa, basi 25 mm. lata, interiora haud flammide 
rubentia, exteriora triste viridia colore + purpureo admixto, subtus 
multo pallidiora subglabra vel juniora tenuiter albo-lepidota. Inflo- 
rescentia in scapi brevissimi, vaginis anguste ovatis, inferioribus sub- 
acuminatis supremis manifeste perlongeque acutis, integerrimis, per- 
parce lepidotis, summis inflorescentiam fere æquantibus imbricatim - 
induti apice; bracteis sepala fere æquantibus, apice purpureis cete- . 
