Ananas, } BROMELIACE®. 1051 
A tree-like as : ag 8-12 feet high. Vernac. Kela. 
e Wild Plan 
2175. Musa ornatTa ag F. I. i. 666. M. rosacea F. B. I. 
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Chittessng. Chota Nagpur, Singbhu 
A small, shrub-like herb, 3-5 - high, Vernae. 
Ramanigi-kela, 
Order CXXIX. BROMELIACEA. 
Herbs, usually epiphytic ; stem usually very short, rarely elon- 
gated and leafy. Leaves generally densely tufted at the base of 
the stem, peri rigid and with spiny edges. Flowers regular, her- 
maphrodite, spicate or paniculate, terminal, rarely lateral ; ee cle 
often elongate and covered with bract- like scales; bracts often 
Perianth 2-seriate, outer series of 3 sepals, free or rarely connate 
low; inner series of 3 petals with connate or connivent claws 
and erect or Spreading lamine. Stamens 6, attached within base 
of corolla; filaments free, or 8 opposite sepals free, 3 opposite 
petals more or less adnate to corolla, or all adnate ; anthers linear, 
rarely oblong, versatile or basifixed, 2-celled ; dehiscence longi- 
tudinal. Car arpels 3, connate in an inferior or _half-superior, 
3-locular ova: ty; ovules many, axial, anatropous; style long 
filiform, or short; stigmas 8, short or linear. Frwit dry or fleshy, 
crowned by the calyx or the whole — perianth, jedehiopaeh 
or capsular. Seeds oblong, ovate, or linear ; testa membranous; 
albumen copious, Ceti ; embryo small, situated i in a small pit or 
stoove near the hilur 
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945. Ananassa Adans. 
Herbs with short, leafy stems ; leaves long, with spinous-serrate 
edges. Flowers in a terminal, cone-like, very dense, globose or 
aang spike, solitary, sessile, or embedded in the axil of each 
» only the Rca ont tips of the bracts projecting, the 
spetrnt t bracts empty, more or less leafy, often forming a 
Viviparous coma. Sepals 8, wide-acuminate, closely imbricate, 
free above the ovary. Petals 8, erect, slightly imbricate, — 
‘dnate below to the filaments, often with 2 minute, basal sc 
