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at the middle, moderately firm in texture, plain green above, white- 

 lepidote beneath, rounded to a small cusp at the tip, the marginal 

 prickles small. Flowers in a capitulum in the centre of the bright 

 crimson reduced inner leaves. Ovary oblong-trigonous, white, 

 i in. long; sepals lanceolate, longer than the ovary. Corolla 

 protruded ^ in. beyond the sepals ; tube white ; segments ovate- 

 lanceolate, violet at the tip. Filaments shorter than the anthers. 



Var. PHYLLANxmDEA E. Morren (M.D.). — Leaves tinged with 

 brown ; inner more numerous, bright rose-red, many obtuse. 



Hab. Guiana. Flowered by M. Jacob Makoy, of Liege in 1874, and the 

 variety in 1879. Allied to K. Carolince. 



28. K. PRiNCEPS Baker. Nidularium princeps E. Morren (M.D.). 

 K. Meijendorfii Antoine, Brom. t. 32. N, spectahile Hort. — 

 Acaulescent. Leaves 15-20 in a short rosette, lorate, about a foot 

 long, 1^-2 in. broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, a 

 slightly glaucous green above, unspotted, pruinose beneath, rounded 

 to a cusp at the tip, the marginal teeth small. Flowers in a 

 globose capitulum in the centre of 6-10 ovate bright red reduced 

 leaves ; flower-bracts narrow, scariose. Sepals lanceolate, tinged 

 with red, f in. long, exceeding the oblong white ovary. Corolla- 

 tube as long as the calyx ; segments violet, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 |~| in. long. Filaments shorter than the linear anthers. 



Hab. South Brazil. Introduced into cultivation about 1858. Two 

 varieties are in cultivation at Kew, one with bright mauve and the other with 

 dull crimson reduced inner leaves. 



29. K. Eegnellii Baker. Nidularium gigantemn Baker in Journ. 

 Bot. 1880, 50. — -Leaves in a long rosette ; dilated ovate base half a 

 foot long, 4 in. broad ; blade lorate, 2 ft. long, IJ in. broad at the 

 middle, moderately rigid in texture, naked on the face, slightly 

 lepidote on the back ; apex deltoid ; prickles deltoid-cuspidate, the 

 lower nearly black, ^-^ in. long. Flowers in a dense capitulum 

 2-3 in. diam. on a probably hidden peduncle 6-8 in. long, 

 surrounded by a number of ovate, highly coloured (red ?) inner 

 leaves with large close brown deltoid marginal teeth ; flower-bracts 

 lanceolate, 2 in. long, reaching to the tip of the calyx. Ovary 

 cylindrical- trigonous, f in. long; sepals lanceolate, IJ in. long. 

 Corolla but little longer than the calyx (colour not known). 



Hab. Central Brazil, Sello 49 I Begnell iii. 1259 ! Glaziou 11692 ! 13250 1 

 13252 ! 14340 ! Glaziou 13251 is an allied species, with as large a leaf, but 

 with a shorter peduncle, ovate reduced inner leaves entire, and sepals an inch 

 long. Both these are known from dried specimens only. I have changed the 

 specific name, which, when Nidularium is merged in Karatas, becomes in- 

 appropriate. 



80. K. CRUENTA Baker. Nidularium cruentum Eegel (M.D.). 

 Billbergia cnmita Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 2892. Bromelia cruenta 

 Graham. — Stem sheathed by leaf-bases reaching a foot in length. 

 Leaves 20 or more to a rosette, lorate, 1-1-2 ft. long, 2-3 in. broad 

 at the middle, ascending, moderately firm in texture, green on the 

 face, pruinose with faint transverse bands on the back, spotted 

 with blood-red at the obtuse cuspidate tip, the brown marginal 

 prickles ^-1 line long. Flowers in a dense central capitulum 



