246 SHORT NOTES. 
ventricose ovate utricular bases 2 in. long; blade linear, acumin 
spreading, recurved, rigidly coriaceous, thinly persistently lepidote, 
6-9 in. peices 4 in. broad low down. Peduncele a foot long; bract- 
leaves many, with long recurved linear points, like those of the 
leaves of the rosette. Spikes 8-8, dense, 2-8 in. long, } in. diam., 
3 in, 
ghivtec than the bract. Petals lilac, convolute in a tube, 4 in. 
longer than the bract. Bao longer than the shall Capsule- 
‘alee, 1} in. long, under 4 in. broa 
Hab. §.W. Florida, on fhe banks of the Caloosa River, Curtiss 
2846 | (distributed as T. juncea Leconte). Jamaica, Purdie! 
Bertero! Wright! 
. T. Konrmaya Gandich. Atlas Bonité, t. 58; Hemsl. Bot. 
Cent. ‘Amer, iii. 821. Plat atystachys ‘Menthidne Beer, Brom. 90. 
Leaves in a dense rosette; dilated base ovate, an ste broad ; 
blade lanceolate-acuminate, 6-9 in. long, 4—? in. broad low down, 
rigidly coriaceous, finely persistently lepidote, especially beneath. 
Pedunele 3-1 ft. long; bract-leaves with long free points. Panicle 
ense, 4-6 in. long; spikes about 15 » ascending, 14-2 in. long, 
he in. ho not so dense as in 7’. poly ystachya ; ogre ‘bracts 
cuspidate ; flower-bracts oblong, acute, . long 
tiny catch Calyx much shorter than the bract. Petal: ‘blades 
m. long, convolute in a cylindrical tube. Stamens protruded 
beyond the tip of the petals, 
Hab. exico ; Valley of Cordova, Bourgeau 1777! Also, 
according to Grisebach, gathered in Cuba by Rugel; and on the 
. Morren 
referring Bourgeau’s plant audichaud’ s, but _ the other 
Bromeliacee figured by the oe aBpeat to be Brazilia 
67. ScaILter Sauvalle, Fl. Cub. 167. — Leaves linear- 
lanceolate from a dilated base, much shorter than the stem. 
eduncle with imbricated bract-leaves. Panicle with simple dis- 
tichous branches; flower. bracts suborbicular, twice as long as the 
| alyx about as long as the bract; sepals elliptic. 
etal-limb ovate, obtuse. Stamens shorter than the petals. Cap- 
sule three times the sf of the calyx. 
Hab. Cuba, ¢. Wright 664. Not seen. 
(To be continued.) 
eat NOTES. 
two speeimens g 
plats to Mr. Hanbury’ 8 experience (p. ry nearly every flower = 
ced a capsule, containing apparently perfect seeds. I hope to 
contin lants from these, in order to see wheth ice ‘Gre <ikemuiak 
continues “ true, or reverts to the type of either parent. M. James 
