50 HANi)])ooK (3F brometjace.t:. 



green racliis ; branches short, the lower 1-1|^ in. long, densely 

 6-6-flowered ; branch-bracts small ; flower-bracts obsolete. Ovary 

 with calyx ovoid, green, -l-f in. long ; sepals deltoid, short, not 

 mucronate. Petals yellow, shortly protruded. 



Hab. Guatemala. Introduced into cultivation by Linden in 1850. De- 

 scribed mainly from a drawing of Prof. Morren's, from a plant that flowered at 

 Liege, March, 1870. 



59. M. Plumieri Baker. Lamj^rococcus ramosus Beer, Brom. 

 106. — Leaves lorate, rigid, 2-3 ft. long, 2-3 in. broad, channelled 

 down the face, deltoid at the apex, the teeth close, middle-sized, 

 ascending, deltoid- cuspidate,. Inflorescence a panicle a foot long, 

 consisting of 8-9 densely-flowered shortly peduncled spikes 3-4 in. 

 long, subtended by large lanceolate branch -bracts. Ovary with 

 calyx sessile round-ovoid, ^ in. long. 



Hab. West Indies. Known only from Plumier's figure, vol. v. tabs. 

 67 — 68, called " Bromelia ramosa et racemosa, foliis arundinaceis serratis." 



60. M. PARviFLORA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 67. BiUhergia 

 parviflora Mart. ; Schultes fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 1270. Lamprococcus 

 chlorocarpus Wawra, Keise, Maxim. 162. t. 28. — Leaves 6-10 in a 

 rosette, lanceolate from an ovate base, a foot long, ^-f in. broad at 

 the middle, narrowed to the point, entire. Peduncle a foot long, with 

 many adpressed pale lanceolate bract-leaves. Inflorescence a lax 

 rhomboid panicle 4-6 in. long, with erecto-patent 9-12-flowered 

 racemose branches, the lowest sometimes forked ; pedicels spread- 

 iiig» tW i^- long, subtended by a minute ovate bract. Calyx 

 including ovary jj in. long ; sepals deltoid, minutely cuspidate. 

 Petals lingulate, blue, g-J in. long, not scaled at the base. Berry 

 olive-green, the size of a grain of hemp-seed. 



Hab. Brazil; woods of the province of Bahia, Martins, Wawra d' Maly 

 232. Connects Mchmea and ArcBococcus. 



61. M. C(ERULESCENS Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 227. M. 

 ctEvulea E. Morren, Cat. 1871, 1 (M.D.). Lamprococcus carulescens 

 Kegel, Gartenfl. t. 694. Hoplo])hytiim ccerulescens E. Morren. Cat. 

 1873, 9. JE. Lnddemanniana Brong. inedit. Pironncava Ludde- 

 mmmiana K. Koch Wochen. 1866, 182. — Leaves about 20 in a 

 utricular rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 15-18 in. long, 1|— 2 in. 

 broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, green on the face, 

 obscurely lepidote on the back, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex, the 

 marginal teeth minute. Peduncle about a foot long ; bract-leaves 

 pale, adpressed. Inflorescence a moderately dense bipinnate 

 panicle 6-9 in. long; branches short, erecto-patent or the upper 

 spreading ; pedicels ^-^ in. long ; branch-bracts and flower-bracts 

 both almost obsolete. Ovary with calyx green, \ in. long ; sepals 

 ovate, with a small cusp, much shorter than the ovary. Petals red, 

 shortly protruded. 



Hab. Country unknown. Introduced into cultivation about 1866, by M. 

 Luddemann, of Paris. 



62. M. MExicANA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 165; Gard. Chron. 

 1887, i. 8(M.D.). Guzmminia fp-andis Hort. Linden. HopJophytum 

 (jrande'E. Morren, inedit. — Leaves 20-30 in a utricular rosette, lorate 



