BILLBERGIA, BROMELIACEAE (AUCTORE C. MEZ). 331 
longa, 23 mm. lata, subtus tenuiter æqualiterque lepidota. Scapus 
gracilis, glaber erectus vel suberectus, vaginis superioribus anguste 
lanceolatis, peracutis, erectis ornatus. Inflorescentia rhachi semper 
fere solemniter geniculata raro recta ; bracteis omnibus vaginis sca- 
palibus similibus. Flores 50-55 mm. longi; sepalis pallide rubris, 
= 20 mm. longis, apice mucrone 1-1,5 mm. longo auctis, symme- 
tricis. Petala += 40 mm. longa, apicem versus acutiuscula demum 
rotundata, infime ligulis grosse dentatis aucta. Stamina petalis paullo 
breviora ; filamentis ser. II. minute ultra ligularum altitudinem eum 
petalis coalitis ; antheris + 3 mm. longis, bacilliformibus, utrinque 
obtusis, prope medium dorsifixis. Ovarium glabrum, tenuiter cylin- 
dricum, pallide rubrum ; tubo epigyno, manifesto, infundibuliformi ; 
stylo petala :equante ; stigmatibus parum contortis. Fructum nondum 
vidi. 
Brasilia, e prov. Rio de Janeiro in caldaria introduxit Lietze. (V. v. in 
hort. Leod., Vratisl. ; v. s. in herb. Leod.) 
34. B. viridiflora ' (Wendl. in Otto et Dietr. Gartenz. XXII, 154); 
foliis spinulis manifestis margine dense armatis ; inflorescentia sim- 
plicissima, laxe longeque racemosa, multiflora, glaberrima, pendula ; 
bracteolis minutis, subovatis longeque acutis; floribus pedicellis usque 
ad 50 mm. longis stipitatis ; sepalis perlonge acutis; petalis viridibus, 
defloratis contortis. — Fl. serres X, t, 1019-1020; Beer, Brom. p. 120; 
Morr. in Belg. hort. 1874, t. 1-2; 1876, p. 324, t. 20-21; Ant. in Wien. 
ill. Gartenz. 1881, p. 4 (c. ic.) ; Bak. Brom. p. 74; Mez in Fl. bras. 
p. 424. ; 
Folia 12-15 tubulose rosulata, basi in vaginam inconspicuam, sub- 
ovalem, dorso paullo lepidotam dilatata, rigida, margine spinulis ad 
1 mm. longis, sursum versis aucta, + 0,6 m. longa, 45 mm. lata, per- 
sensim in apicem acutissimum attenuata, supra glabra subtus + albo- 
lepidota. Scapus elegantissimus, glaber, vaginis brevibus, ovato- 
ovalibus, acutis, summis suberectis ornatus. Inflorescentia rhachi 
recta; bracteolis + 6 mm. longis. Flores ad 70 mm. longi, in pedicel- 
lorum patentium apice suberecti ; sepalis viridibus, glaberrimis, 
- 21 mm. longis, perasymmetricis. Petala + 50 mm. longa, apice 
rotundata, infime ligulis grosse crenalis aucta. Stamina petala. 
æquantia vel iis minute solum breviora ; filamentis ser. II. cum petalis 
usque ad 1/5 longit. connatis ; antheris 4 mm. longis, crasse bacilli- 
formibus, utrinque obtusis, in 1/3 longit. dorsifixis. Ovarium sordide 
1. Hujus speciei hybrida : B. Liboniana x viridiflora ef. supra p. 322. 
