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clavate, | in. long ; calyx as long as the ovary ; segments as long 

 as the tube, ovate, with a large mucro. Petals ^f in. longer than 

 the calyx. 



Hab. Central Brazil ; proTince of Minas Geraes on trees and the ground at 

 San Caetano. Gardner 5234 I Collected in Oct., 1840. 



3. P. Glaziovii Baker. — Leaves lorate from an oblong base 

 9-12 in. long, 4-5 in. broad ; blade above the base 2 ft. long, 

 2-2i in. broad at the middle ; texture moderately firm ; upper 

 surface naked ; apex deltoid-cuspidate ; marginal prickles small, 

 close, dark brown, lanceolate, the lower ^-^ in. long. Inflorescence 

 a lax panicle above a foot long, 4-5 in. broad ; branch-bracts 

 small, lanceolate, the lower only l|-2 in. long; lower branches 

 compound; pedicels ascending, glabrous, -J-f in. long. Ovary 

 clavate, glabrous, ^-^ in. long; calyx as long as the ovary; seg- 

 ments twice as long as the tube, ovate, with a large cusp. Petals 

 protruded ^ in. from the calyx. 



Hab. Brazil, Glaziou 12230 1 Eeceived in Jan., 1881. 



11. Ananas Adans. 



Ananassa Lmdl. 



Sepals ovate, acute, free down to the top of tlie ovary. Petals 

 lingulate, free, scaled at the base, much longer than the sepals. 

 Stamens much shorter than the petals, 3 epigynous, 3 attached to 

 the base of the petals ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, attached 

 near the base. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; ovules many in a cell ; 

 style filiform ; stigmas linear, scarcely twisted. Fruits fleshy, 

 connate with the bracts into a large ovoid or subglobose syn- 

 carpium, which is usually crowned by a coma of leafy empty 

 bracts. Seeds globose, homy, the size of a pea. — Leaves in a dense 

 basal rosette, ensiform, firm in texture. Peduncle central, its 

 leaves spine-edged and firm in texture. Petals violet or purplish. 

 Syncarpium often proliferous from the base, bearing buds from 

 which the plant can be propagated. 



1. A. SATivus (Ananassa sativa) Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1068. 

 Bromelia Ananas Linn. Sp. Plant. 408 ; Red. Lil. t. 455-6. B. 

 sylrcsfris Veil. Fl. Flum. iii. t. 113, non Willd.— Leaves 30-50 in 

 a dense rosette, ensiform, 3-5 ft. long, 1^-2 in. broad at the 

 middle, firm in texture, green on the face and channelled, thinly white- 

 lepidote and finely striated vertically on the back, narrowed 

 gradually to the point, the teeth close, small, deltoid- cuspidate and 

 hooked. Peduncle stiffly erect, ^-1 ft. long, its leaves with long 

 produced rigid serrated tips. Inflorescence an ovoid strobilus 

 3-6 in. long; bracts ovate, acute, rigid, serrated, adnate at the base 

 to the ovary. Flower about an inch long ; sepals ovate, half as 

 long as the lingulate violet or purplish petals. Stamens a little 

 shorter than the petals. Syncarpium ovoid, -|-1 ft. long in the 

 cultivated forms, crowned generully with a coma of 20-30 folia- 

 ceous empty bracts. Very variable, the principal cultivated forms 



