GRAVISIA. BROMELIACEAE (AUCTORE C. MEZ). 171 
cato leg. Binot. — Floret Februario-Majo (V. v. in hori. Leod., v. s. 
in herb. Berol., Brux., Kew., Leod., Paris., Petrop. et Warming.) 
3. P. kermesina (Brongn. et C. Koch, Ind. sem. h. Berol. 1856, 
app. p. 7); foliis margine spinulis udsender dynen, parvis dense serru- 
latis, rubentibus ; inflorescentia li 
bracteis primariis latissimis obtectis; beats florigeris maximis, 
sepala æquantibus. — Carr. in Rev. hort. 1870, p. 230 c. fig. ; Ant. in 
Gartenfl. 1875, p. 129 t. 829; Bak. Brom. p. 21; Mez in Fl. bras., 
p- 297. — Billbergia Brongniartii Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. III, p. 283, 
Descr. pl. hort. Petrop. III, p. 3, Gartenfl. 1875, p. 166. — B. rubi- 
cunda C. Koch ap. Regel, l. c. 
Folia 8-10 utriculatim rosulata, vaginà manifestà, ovali, lepidibus 
brunneis conspersá, margine spinulis haud ultra 2 mm. longis aucta 
Sæpiusque undulata, apice rotundato-acutiuscula mucroneque valido 
brevissimo imposito armata, ad 0,5 m. longa, 50 mm. lata, linearia. 
Scapus albido-lepidotus, brevis, vaginis infimis margine paucidentalis 
superioribus integerrimis, optime rubentibus, late ellipticis, valde 
concavis, subglabris, amplis omnino obtectus, Inflorescentia densis- 
sima, e ramulis 7-3-floris composita bipinnatim pannieulata; axibus : 
lepidoto-puberulis ; bracteis primariis erectis, vaginis scapalibus supe- 
rioribus isomorphis, amplissimis; bracteis florigeris lanceolato-sub- 
oblongis, apice breviter mucronatis. Flores ad 45 mm. longi; sepalis 
albis, subglabris, spinula terminali 3 mm. longa, rosea neglecta ad 
17 mm. longis. Petala primum alba tum apicem versus pulchre vio- 
laceo-cærulescentia, ad 32 mm. longa, ex ungue lineari in apicem 
subrotundatam dilata. Stamina filamentis ser. II. cum petalis peralte 
connatis; antheris cæruleis, 8 mm. longis, fusiformi-linearibus, 
utrinque acutis, prope medium dorsifixis. Ovarium album vel pallide 
roseum, subglabrum vel paullo lepidoto-tomentellum, basi in pedi- 
cellum brevem transiens. Fructum non vidi. 
Brasilia orientalis, prov. Bahia, loco ignoto : Blanchet n. 2997, 
Lesson. — Floret Octobri. (V. v. in hort. Leod., Lugd.-Bat., Vratisl. ; 
V. s$. in herb. Berol., Candoll., Mus. Brit., Monac., Mez., Paris., - 
Petrop.) 
XXII. — GRAVISIA, Mez in Fl. bras. p. 299. 
Flores hermaphroditi. Sepala solemniter basin usque libera, stricte 
erecta, sinistrorsum convoluta, apice breviter nunc brevissime mucro- 
nata, latere tecto in alam manifestam haud altius productam dilatata 
asymmetrica, glabra vel dorso + tomentella. Petala solemniter basin 
