BILLBERGIA. BROMELIACEAE (AUCTORE C. MEZ). 313 
mucronulata, + 0,4 m. longa, 38 mm. lata, dorso sparse paullo lepi- 
dota nec vittata. Scapus tenuissimus, erectus, subglaber, vaginis 
paucis late ovalibus, acutis, usque ad 20 mm. longis, suberectis ornatus. 
Inflorescentia erecta, paullo farinosa. Flores ad 30 mm. longi; sepalis 
basi breviter connatis, 9 mm. longis, sublinearibus, apice minute 
emarginatis, symmetricis. Petala ad 23 mm. longa, apice acutiuscula, 
infima basi ligulis binis profunde fimbriato-incisis aucta. Stamina 
petalis paullo breviora; filamentis ser II. cum petalis alte connatis ; 
antheris 2,5-3 mm. longis, subfusiformibus, in 1/3 longit. dorsifixis. 
Ovarium glabrum, subobovoideum, + 8 mm. longum ; stylo quam 
stamina paullo breviore ; stigmatibus clavatim contortis. 
Brasilia (septentrionalis? ), loco ignoto: Martius.(V. s.inherb. Monac.) 
C. — SuBcENCS EUBILLBERGIA, Mez in Fl. bras. 390. 
Inflorescentia farinosa vel glabra, laxa, panniculata vel simplex, 
floribus subsessilibus, breviter vel longe pedicellatis. Petala per anthe- 
sin zygomorphe 5 disposita, deflorata contorta, porrecta. 
14. B. Moreli! (Brongn. in Portef. hort. II, 97 c. ic.); foliis mar- 
gine manifeste spinulosis, evittatis ; inflorescentia pendula, subpauci- 
vel submultiflora, simplicissima subspicata, dense albo-farinosa ; 
bracteolis summis minutissimis, squamiformibus ; floribus brevissime 
pedicellatis; sepalis rotundatis minuteque emarginatis; petalis lila- 
cinis, defloratis contorlis. — Fl. d. jard. Pays-Bas II, t. 2; Beer, 
Brom. p. 120 (« Moreliana »); Morr. in Belg. hort. 1860, p. 161 t. 11-12 
et 1873, t. 1-2; Bak. Brom. p. 77; Mez in Fl. bras. p. 400. — 
B. Glymiana De Vriese in Linnæa XXVI, p. 756 ; Beer, Brom. p. 119; 
Morr. in Belg. hort. 4866, p. 134, t. 11. — B. Wetherilli Hook. in Bot. 
Mag. t. 4835 : Beer, Brom. p. 418; Morr. in Belg. hort. V, p. 168. 
— B. pulcherrima C. Koch et Bouché in Ind. Sem. h. Berol. 1856, 
p. 6. — B. dubia hort. ap. Beer, l. c. p. 118. 
Folia 6-12 breviter tubulose rosulata, basi in vaginam manifestam, 
elongate ovalem vel ovatam, basin versus utrinque adpresse lepidotam 
dilatata, margine spinulis 4,5-0,5 mm. longis densiuscule aucta, 
1. Hujus speciei hybrid: : 
a. B. Moreli X pyramidalis. Cf. supra p. 3 
b. B. Moreli X nutans. Inter parentes eed intermedia : folia exteriora per- 
angusta subinermia, inflorescenlia nutans, sepala apice violaceo-maculata B. nu- 
tantis; folia interiora latiora, inflorescentia pluriflora, petala tota violacea 
B. Moreli. — B. nutanto-Moreli Bak. Brom . Worleana Wittm. in Ga 
tenz. 1886, p. 459 f. 100; Witte, Hybr. Brom: p. 6 
