41, 42. 
BROMELDIA patuipa. 
Pale-flowered Bromelia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nat. Ono. BROMELIACE&, Juss. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cal. 3-fidus, superus. Petala 3. Squama nectarifera ad basin 
petali. Bacca trilocularis.—Hort. Kew 
Bromelia pallida; panicula laxissima patentissima, pedunculis bifloris, 
spathis supremis fertilibus, florem sequantibus, divaricatis—Kerr, in 
Bot. Reg. 
Bromelia pallida, Bot. Reg. t. 344. 
Tillandsia amzna, Lopp. Bot. Cab. t. 76. - 
Stem short, simple, wholly clothed with numerous, tesialy crowded, linear- 
lanceolate, channelled, patenti-recurved, dull blueish-green, thin, coria- 
ceous leaves, whose margins are sharply serrated, their bases broad and 
imbricated ; the largest of them 8 or 10 inches in length. 
Panicle terminal, taller than the leaves, cylindrical, branched ; branches dis- 
tant, patent, alternate, somewhat compressed, almost constantly two- 
ewing at their bases (except a few of the uppermost branches), 
ings deep rose-coloured, thin, ovate, concave bracteas or spathas. Si- 
milar bracteas sheath the base of the flowering-stalk ; these altogether, 
before the appearance of the flowers, are imbricated into a rich rose-co- 
loured or almost crimson spike, afterwards they become patent, deflex- 
ed, wr foe time the flower is fully expanded, they lose much of their 
, and soon after fall away. 
Flowers ities 2 and 3 inches in length, patent. Germen inferior, oblong, 
obtusely trigonous, marked with prominent lines, green, 3-celled, each 
cell with many ovules at the inner angles. Calyx shorter than the co- 
_ Tolla, forming a tube around it, of 3 linear oblong segments, pale green. 
Corolla also of 3 linear-lanceolate segments, conniving, so as to form a 
tube, slightly ventricose and hyaline below, the wid ote yellow-green, 
ex ces, which are yecurvet, and tipped wi cet 
Stamens 6, of equal length d about Filaments slender, 
ped, white, glabrous, inserted d into the very base of the corolla, 
just Where it forms a tube with the marginal summit of the germen, and 
sitieaa atotea. them at their cir base, a small, subquadrate, white 
tremity. Anthers linear-oblong, yellow. faceted es 
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