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calyx-tube, shorter tlian the petals ; filaments linear ; anthers 

 Imear-oblong, fixed by the back near the base. O/v/r// inferior, 

 globose, trisulcate, S-celled ; ovules few in a cell, appendiculate at 

 the apex ; style filiform ; stigmas long, linear, much twisted. 

 Fruit small, globose, indehiscent. Seech very few, sometimes 

 solitary, the size of a grain of hemp-seed. — Differs from BromAia 

 by its inflorescence, bract-like stem-leaves, calyx cupular above the 

 ovary and long much-contorted stigmas. Named after Baron 

 Wawra von Fernsee, who has collected and carefully described and 

 figured this and mnny other of the most interesting Brazilian 

 Bromeliacew, and was engaged in writing a monograph of them at 

 the time of his death. 



1. F. Itatiai^ Baker. Bromelia ItntiaicD Wawra, Itin. Prin. 

 Sax. Gob. 141, t. 19. — Acaulescent. Leaves very numerous, linear 

 from an ovate base, 6-8 in. long. \-^ in. broad at the middle, bright 

 light green above, glaucous and lepidote beneath, firm in texture, 

 arcuate, the marginal prickles close, small, spreading, deltoid. 

 Peduncle central, a little longer than the leaves ; stem -leaves erect, 

 lanceolate, scariose, entire, tinged with pink. Inflorescence a 

 slightly compound moderately dense cylindrical raceme 3-4 in. 

 long ; flower-bracts lanceolate, scariose, ^-1 in. long ; pedicels 

 erecto-patent, i— I in. long. Ovary subcylindrical, pubescent, ^in. 

 long ; calyx as long as the ovary. Petals reddish, J in. long, 

 spreading but little when fully expanded. 



Hab. Central Brazil; on the Serra de Itatiaia, alt. 9000 — 10,000 ft. 

 Wawra II. 442. 



9. EoNNBERGiA E. Movreu & Andre. 



Sepals united in a short campanulate tube above the ovary ; 

 segments small, ovate, not spine-pointed. Petals oblong-unguicu- 

 late, connivent in a tube above the calyx, spreading only at the tip. 

 Stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx, much shorter than the 

 petals ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear-oblong, small, basifixed. 

 Ovary inferior, oblong, 3-celled, ovules many in a cell, appendi- 

 culate at the apex ; style filiform ; stigmas linear, contorted. Fruit 

 small, globose, baccate. — Differs from Billhergia ^ Libunia by its 

 sepals being united in a short tube above the ovary, and by its 

 petioled oblong leaves, and from all the genera with inferior fruit 

 by the leaves being entirely destitute of marginal prickles. 



1. E. MoRRENiANA Linden & Andre in 111. Hort. n.s. t. 117 

 (M.D.). — Leaves about a dozen in a rosette, with a deeply 

 channelled erecto-patent petiole 6-8 in. long, and an oblong acute 

 blade above a foot long, not at all rigid in texture, light green on 

 the face, much mottled with darker green, glaucous and less 

 distinctly mottled on the back, both blade and petiole entirely 

 destitute of marginal spines. Peduncle erect, about a foot long, 

 with many ovate-lanceolate greenish-white bract-leaves. Flowers 

 in a dense simple erect spike 3-4 in. long ; bracts ovate, acute, 



