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sepals, which are f in. long. Petals violet, protruded ^-^ in. 

 beyond the tip of the calyx. Filaments shorter than the anthers. 



Hab. South Brazil, Burchell ! Glaziou 15495 ! Introduced into cultiva- 

 tion about 1867. Named after Dr. Laurentius, of Leipsic. Described from a 

 plant at Kew, March, 1877. It may be Bromelia concentrica Beer, founded 

 upon a rough figure in the ' Flora Fluminensis ' {Tillandsia concentrica, vol. iii. 

 t. 133). 



21. K. coRiACEA Antoine, Brom. t. 30, fig. 1. Nidularium 

 coriaceiim Hort. Linden (M.D.). — Acaulescent. Leaves 12-15 in a 

 short rosette, lorate, a foot long, 2-2J in. broad at the middle, 

 moderately firm in texture, plain green on the face, with a few 

 brown spots, thinly white-lepidote on the back, rounded to a cusp at 

 the apex, all the marginal prickles minute. Flowers in a dense 

 capitulum 2 in. diam. in the centre of the dark purple reduced 

 inner leaves ; flower- bracts narrow, green, nearly as long as the 

 calyx. Ovary J in. long ; sepals lanceolate-acuminate, green, 

 I in. long. Petals violet, protruding ^ in. beyond the tip of the 

 sepals. Filaments short. 



Hab. South Brazil. Introduced into cultivation about 1870. Very near 

 K. acaiithocrater, from which it differs mainly by its minute marginal prickles. 



22. K. ACANTHocRATER Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6904 ; Antoine, 

 Brom. t. 29 and 30, fig. 2. Nidularium acanthocrater E. Morren in 

 Belg. Hort. 1884, 140, t. 9 (M.D.).— Acaulescent. Leaves 20-30 in a 

 short rosette, lorate, the outer 1^ ft. long, 2-3 in. broad at the 

 middle, moderately firm in texture, the face green, often spotted 

 with dark brown, the back thinly white-lepidote, the tip rounded to 

 a cusp, the marginal prickles large and brown. Flowers in a 

 dense capitulum 2-3 in. diam. in the centre of the rosette, the 

 reduced inner leaves dark or light purple, rarely unchanged in 

 colour ; flower-bracts lanceolate, scariose. Ovary cylindrical- 

 trigonous, white, |- in. long ; sepals green, lanceolate-acuminate, 

 |-1 in. long. Petals violet, protruded J~^ in. beyond the tip of 

 the sepals. Filaments shorter than the anthers. 



Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 11687 ! Introduced into cultivation by 

 Dr. Glaziou in 1877. Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in May, 

 1886. Vars. Plutonis and Proserpina of Morren differ in the colour of the 

 reduced inner leaves. Glaziou 15494 {K. macracantha Baker), is probably an 

 allied distinct species. It has close spreading brown prickles | in. and sepals 

 IJ in. long. 



23. K. Innocentii Antoine, Brom. 44, t. 26. Nidularium 

 Innocentii hemsiive, Jard. Fleur. t. 329 (M.D.). Gemellaria Inno- 

 centii Pinel. — Acaulescent, stoloniferous. Leaves about 20 in a 

 short rosette, lorate, under a foot long, 1|- in. broad at the middle, 

 thin but firm in texture, green more or less tinged with brown, 

 especially on the back, neither spotted nor banded, deltoid-cuspidate 

 at the tip, the marginal teeth close and minute. Flowers in a 

 central capitulum and also a few in the axils of the 5-6 bright red 

 ovate reduced inner leaves; flower-bracts scariose, linear, 2 in. 

 long. Ovary ^ in. long ; sepals lanceolate, f in. long. Corolla 

 white, with a greenish tube, an inch longer than the calyx. 

 Filaments very short. 



