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texture, plain green on the face, thinly lepidote on the back, 

 tapering to the point, the marginal pi'icldes like those of Karatas 

 Flamieri, much larger and more distant than in A.sativus. Peduncle 

 1-2 ft. long, its leaves usually bright red. Inflorescence a dense 

 oblong strobilus 4-6 in. long ; bracts ovate, rigid, bright red, 

 l|-2 in. long, strongly serrated. Sepals ovate, ^-^ in. long. 

 Petals lingulate, violet, more than twice as long as the calyx. 

 Syncarpium ovoid, ^ ft. long, with a large coma, pale yellow wdieu 

 fully ripe, the points of the bracts projecting beyond the drupes. 



Hab. Widely spread in Brazil, especially near the coast, Burchell 5500 I 

 Glaziou 12235 I 13264 ! Introduced into cultivation by Mr. Kobert Barclay from 

 Portugal in 1820. A. muricatm Schultes fil., which is known only from the 

 description of Arruda da Camara, may be a variety of this species, with exagger- 

 ated spinose cusps to the bracts. They are described as 3| in. long. In culti- 

 vated bracteatus they sometimes reach an inch. 



3. A. MACRODONTES E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1878, 140, t. 4-5 

 (M.D.). BromcUa macrodosa and />. wuhdata Hort. — Leaves 30-40 

 in a rosette, ensifonn, 3-4 ft. long, 2-2i- in. broad at the middle, 

 weaker in texture and more spreading than in A. saticus, much 

 undulated, purplish -brown on the deeply-channelled face, thinly 

 white-lepidote on the back, the deltoid- cuspidate hooked marginal 

 prickles large and distant. Peduncle erect, a foot long, its leaves 

 tinged with red. Inflorescence a dense strobilus 6-8 in. long; bracts 

 ovate-cuspidate, reddish, spine-edged, the larger H-2 in. long. 

 Sepals ovate, ^\ in. long. Petals purplish, more than twice as 

 long as the sepals. Fruit an ovoid syncarpium 7-8 in. long, not 

 crowned by a coma of leaves, the ascending cusps of the rigid 

 brown bracts much longer than the drupes. 



Hab. Brazil. First flowered by M. Rodembourg at Li^ge, in May, 1876. 

 Described from Morren's drawings and living plants at Kew. 



12. ACANTHOSTACHYS KlotZScll. 



Sepals lanceolate-deltoid, acute, free down to the top of the 

 ovary. Petals lingulate, scaled at the base, a little longer than the 

 calyx. Stamens shorter than the petals, 3 epigynous, 3 attached to 

 the base of the petals; filaments rather compressed; anthers 

 attached by the back near the base. Ovary inferior, globose, 

 flattened on the side next the axis ; ovules 2 in a cell, collateral, 

 pendulous; style filiform; stigmas short, cuneate, not twisted. 

 Fruits pulpy, crowned by the persistent calyx, not concrete with 

 each other and the bracts. — This is very different in stigma and 

 non-concrete fruits from Ananas, with which Mr. Bentham has 

 joined it. 



1. A. sTROBiLACEA Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Ic. PI. Ear. Hort. 

 Berol. 21, t. 9 (M.D.). Huhenhen/ia strobilacca Schultes fil. Syst. 

 Veg. vii. 1252. Tufts crowded on a slender creeping rhizome. 

 Produced leaves 1-3, linear, the central one 1^-2 ft. long, ^ in. 

 broad, hemispherical on the back, channelled down the face, firm 

 in texture, narrowed gradually to a point, dull green, obscurely 



