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68 MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. AREGELIA. 
summis flores ad 3/4 æquantibus imbricatim induto stipitata; brac- 
teis perconspicuis, crassiusculis, presertim dorso dissite brunneo- 
lepidotis, + 20 mm. longis, 4 mm. latis. Flores pedicellis ad 4 mm. 
longis stipitati; sepalis basi ad 2,5 mm. connatis tum ad 11 mm. 
liberis, apice haud hamulosis, perasymmetricis. Petala violacea, 
cærulea vel pallida, + 17 mm. longa, breviter connata, peracuta. 
Stamina filamentis breviter tantum liberis, crassiusculis, lineari-com- 
planatis; antheris 2- 0,5 mm. longis, filamenta longitudine superan- 
libus, sublinearibus, apice acutiusculis basi subobtusis, in 1/3 altit. 
dorsifixis. Ovarium album, glaberrimum, subovoideum valde trian- 
gulare, apice vix constrictum, + 8 mm. longum ; tubo epigyno bre- 
vissimo; placentis in 3/4 altit. affixis. Fructum non vidi. 
Brasilia australis, olim in caldaria introducta, recentius haud 
lecta. (V. v. in hort. Berol., Leod., v. s. in herb. Leod., Petrop.) 
8 Simplex Wawra (in Oest. bot. Zeit. XXX, 112). — A typo differt | 
statura omnino majore, robustiore, compactiore; foliis brevioribus, 
latioribus, crebrius spinulosis, intimis pulchre rubentibus. — Wawra 
in Bull. Fédér. Soc. Hortic. Belg. 1880, p. 35 et It. Sax.-Cob. 
p. 137 ; Mez in FI. bras. p. 230, t. 54, f. 2 
Brasilia orientali-australis, prope Entre-Rios : Wawra II, n. 146. — 
(V. s. in herb. Vindob.) 
5. A. tristis ; foliis utriculum apice constrictum haud for- 
mantibus, margine spinulis minutis, longe distantibus armatis, exvit- 
tatis; inflorescentia submultiflora ; bracteis peranguste linearibus, 
apice optime rotundatis, sepala dimidio æquantibus; floribus ad 30 mm. 
longis; sepalis glabris, longe subaristato-acutis ; petalis violaceo-lila- 
cinis. — Nidularium triste Regel, Ind. Sem. h. Petrop. 1866, p. 79 et 
in Gartenfl. 1866, p. 356, 1870, p. 268; — Wawra in Oesterr, bot. 
Zeitschr. XXX (1880), p. 112et in Bull. Fédér. Soc. hort. belg. 1880, 
p. 94 et It. enc MN p. 138; Mez in Fl. bras. p. 228. — Karatas. 
tristis Bak. Brom. p. 5. —Regelia pics Lindm. in Oefvers. Akad. Holm. 
4890, p.542.— Nidularium hort. ap. Bak. 1. c. (non Morr.). 
Saxicola (ex cl. Wawra), generis e inicio: Folia 10-12 dense 
rosulata, basi in vaginam ovalem, lilacino-vinose coloratam maculis 
pallidis conspersam marmoratam,triste coloratam dilatata ,chartaceo- 
coriacea, suberecta, margine spinulis 0,5 mm. longis, sursum hamä- 
tis distanter armata, apicem versus longe angustata demum subro- 
tundata nec non in mucronem debilem, subfiliformem impositum 
producta, anguste linearia, + 0,18 m. longa, 20 mm. lata, presertim 
basin versus sed nonnunquam fere omnino maculis purpureo- 
