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2-3 in. diam. ; inner reduced leaves not altered in colour ; flower- 

 bracts nearly as long as the calyx. Ovary ^ in. long ; sepals lan- 

 ceolate, f in. long. Corolla violet, with a tube as long as the 

 calyx and ovate segments ^ in. long. Filaments very short. 



Hab. South Brazil, Burchell 3291! Glaziou 8501b! Introduced into 

 cultivation by Harris in 1829. Bromelia rhodocincta Brong. inedit. !, sent from 

 Bahia by Porte, flowered by Morel in 1848, is a lorate-leaved species of 

 Nidularium. 



31. K. MARMORATA Bakcr. Nidularium marmoratum E. Morren, 

 inedit. (M.D.). — Acaulescent. Leaves about a dozen in a rosette, 

 spreading nearly from the base, lorate, about a foot long, 1^-2 in. 

 broad, pale green, copiously and conspicuously marbled both on 

 the back and face with irregular confluent blotches of red-brown, 

 deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, with a spot of bright red below the 

 cusp, the marginal prickles small. Capitulum dense, central, 

 1^-2 in. diam. Ovary white, ^ in. long ; sepals green, lanceolate, 

 very acute, longer than the ovary. Petals pale violet, but little 

 longer than the sepals. Filaments very short. 



Hab. Probably Brazil. Described from Professor Morren's drawing, made 

 in April, 1878, and a plant that flowered at Kew in the autumn of 1887, 

 received from Sir G. Macleay. There is in the Paris Herbarium a Bromelia 

 marmorata Brong., inedit., flowered at Paris about 1850, which may be the 

 same plant, but many of these Nidularia are too near one another to be 

 identified from dried specimens. 



32. K. JoHANNis Baker. Nidularium Johannis Carriere in Eev. 

 Hort. 1884, 432. — Habit of a Billhergia. Leaves few, arcuate, 

 lorate, li-2 ft. long, 3 in. broad, pale green, slightly marbled, 

 rounded to a cusp and spotted with bright red at the tip, margined 

 with small distant spines. Inflorescence a central capitulum ; 

 flower-bracts bright green, acute. Corolla pure white, small. 



Hab. Probably Brazil. Flowered by M. Sallier, at Chateau du Val, 

 near Paris, in 1884. 



33. K. sPECTABiLis Antoine, Brom. t. 33. Nidularium spectahile 

 T. Moore in Gard. Chron. 1873, 8 ; Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 6024 

 (M.D.). N. eximium Hort. — Acaulescent. Leaves 20-30 in a 

 rosette with utricular bases, lorate, moderately firm in texture, the 

 outer a foot or more long, l|-2 in. broad, green on the face tinged 

 with brown, conspicuously marbled on the back with transverse 

 bands of reddish brown, rounded to a small cusp and spotted with 

 bright red at the tip ; marginal prickles minute. Flowers 40-50 in 

 a dense central capitulum ; reduced inner leaves not altered in 

 colour ; flower-bracts reaching up to the tip of the calyx. Ovary 

 oblong-trigonous, white, -^-in. long; sepals reddish, lanceolate, fin. 

 long. Petals violet, cuspidate, ^ in. longer than the calyx, united 

 in a tube as long as the sepals. Filaments very short. 



Hab. Central Brazil. Introduced by Mr. W. Bull in 1872. Described 

 from a plant that flowered at Kew in 1877. Now frequent in cultivation and 

 often flowering. 



34. K. Makoyana Baker. Nidularium Makoyanum Eegel, Descr. 

 1887, 6. — Very near K. spectabilis, from which it difl'ers by its 

 leaves green on both sides, obscurely fasciate beneath, inner 



