4 HANDBOOK OF BKOMELIACE^. 



short serrated tips ; flower-bracts lanceolate, about as long as the 

 calyx. ■ Ovary cylindrical- trigonous, glabrous, an inch long ; 

 sepals lanceolate, nearly as long as the ovary. Petals violet, little 

 longer than the sepals. 



Hab. Country unknown. Figured by Redoute from a plant that flowered 

 at Malmaison, in the summer of 1814. It may be a caulescent variety of K. 

 Legrellcs, but is evidently quite distinct from K. Plumieri. 



6. K. ALBO-ROSEA Bakcr. Nidularium albo-roseum Griseb. in 

 Gott. Nacht. 1864, 12. — Leaves ensiform, not very rigid in texture, 

 3-4 ft. long, IJ- If in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to 

 the point and f in. above the base, the marginal prickles distant 

 and small, except a few towards the base. Flowers in a dense 

 capitulum surrounded by several greenish-brown ovate acuminate 

 closely-serrated bract-leaves, the inner 2 in. long. Ovary glabrous, 

 cylindrical-trigonous, an inch long ; sepals lanceolate, erect, an 

 inch long. Corolla whitish rose-coloured, with a tube as long as 

 the sepals and segments half as long as the tube. 



Hab. Venezuela, near Tovar, alt. 7500 ft., Fendler 1521 ! Cryptanthus 

 andicola Moritz, Exsic. No. 1969, from the same district, is probably the same 

 species. It is said to have a brown fruit, with an acid flavour, and a caudex 

 sometimes 3 — 4 ft. long. 



Subgenus Nidularium. 



7. K. PURPUREA Antoine Brom. 42, t. 25. Nidularium piirpureum 

 Beer, Brom. 75 (M.D.). N. discolor Beer. Brom. 74. Tillajidsia 

 rubra and discolor Hort. — Acaulescent. Leaves 10-15 in a short 

 rosette, lanceolate, a foot or more long, 1-lJ in. broad at the 

 middle, spreading, dull green on the face, more or less flushed with 

 purplish-brown or claret-brown, without any distinct bands or 

 spots, paler and thinly lepidote beneath, narrowed to the point, the 

 marginal prickles minute. Flowers in a dense central rosette, the 

 reduced inner leaves scarcely changed in colour. Ovary oblong, 

 i in. long ; sepals lanceolate, acute, f in. long. Corolla-segments 

 oblong, red, ^ in. long. Anthers |in. long, reaching nearly to the 

 tip of the corolla-segments. 



Hab. Brazil. Introduced into cultivation in the Louvain Garden before 

 1830. It has been for many years in the collection at Kew. 



8. K. DENTicuLATA Baker. Nidularium denticulatum Kegel, 

 Gartenfl.1870, 268. Bromelia denticulata K. Koch, Wochen. ii. 

 151. B. ajigustifolia K. Koch. B.paucijiora K. Koch, Wochen. ix. 

 183. Nidularium agavcBfolium Hort. — Acaulescent. Leaves 10-15 

 in a short rosette, lanceolate, spreading, 6-8 in. long, f in. broad 

 low down, green on the face without any distinct spots or bands, 

 paler beneath, narrowed gradually to the point, the marginal 

 prickles distant and minute. Flowers in a small head in the 

 centre of the reduced inner leaves, which are not changed in 

 colour. Ovary oblong, ^-^ in. long ; sepals lanceolate, f in. long. 

 Corolla-segments dull violet, ovate, acute, nearly as long as the 

 tube. Filaments short. 



Hab. South Brazil. Introduced into cultivation about 1865. Gathered 

 lately wild, by Dr. Wawra. Described from K. Koch's dried specimen and 

 Morren's drawing. 



