14 HANDBOOK OF BROMELIACE/E. 



1. D. scARLATiNus Hort. Linden. Bromelia scarlatina E. 

 Morren in Belg. Hort. 1881, 164 (M.D.).— Acaulescent. Leaves 

 12-20 in a rosette, with a broad channelled petiole a foot long, 

 armed with copious deflexed spines, and an oblong acute thin 

 blade, a foot long, 3-4 in. broad, green on the face or tinged with 

 brown, brown-lepidote on the back. Flowers in a dense sessile 

 central capitulum, overtopped by the bright red much reduced 

 inner leaves. Petals purplish red with a white margin, protruded 

 about half an inch beyond the tip of the long calyx ; tube as long 

 as the sepals. Stamens reaching to the tip of the sepals. 



Hab. Amazon valley. Introduced from Para by Linden in 1863. Described 

 from a plant seen at Mr. J. T. Peacock's in 1879, one now at Kew received from 

 the Botanic Garden at Liege and Prof. Morren's drawing. 



2. D. MoRRENiANUS Baker. Cryptanthiis Morrenianus Eegel, 

 Gartenfl. 1888, 157. Bromelia Moensis E. Morren, inedit. (M.D.). 

 — Acaulescent. Leaves about twenty in a rosette, with a broad 

 channelled petiole 6-8 in. long, armed with copious spreading 

 prickles and a thin oblong lanceolate acute blade a foot long, 

 2-3 in. broad, green or tinged with brown, glaucous beneath. 

 Flowers in a dense sessile central capitulum, subtended by the lan- 

 ceolate reduced inner leaves ; flower-bracts shorter than the calyx. 

 Ovary oblong ; calyx- segments short, unequal. Corolla yellowish, 

 with a cylindrical tube as long as the calyx-limb ; segments 

 yellowish, lingulate, spreading, as long as the tube. Stamens 

 shorter than the corolla-segments. 



Hab. Para. Introduced by Linden in 1873. 



4. Ceyptanthus Otto d Dietr. 



( Pholidophyllwn Vis.). 



Sepals united in a campanulate tube above the ovary ; segments 

 ovate-lanceolate, imbricated, not tipped with a mucro. Petals 

 3-4-times as long as the calyx, obscurely united at the base, not 

 scaled, spreading widely when expanded. Stamens inserted on the 

 corolla, the three opposite the sepals at the base of the petals, the 

 three others a little higher ; filaments filiform ; anthers small, 

 oblong, versatile. Ovary inferior, oblong, 3-celled; ovules many 

 in a cell ; style filiform ; stigmas linear, falcate, not contorted. 

 Fruit dry. Seeds minute, subglobose. — Leaves many in a rosette, 

 spreading, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, with stolons from the 

 axils of the outer ones, minutely prickly on the edge, sessile or 

 petioled. Floivers white, arranged in a capitulum m the axils of 

 the inner leaves. 



Leaves sessile, without cross-bands of lepidote 



scales or vertical vitt^e . . . . Sp. 1-5. 



Leaves sessile, without cross-bands, but with 



vertical vittee ...... Sp. 6-9. 



Leaves sessile, decorated with cross -bands . Sp. 10-11. 



Leaves petioled, marbled all over white and 



green ....... Sp. 12. 



