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reduced ensiform inner leaves ; flower-bracts lanceolate, as long as 

 the calyx. Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, glabrous, above an inch 

 long ; sepals lanceolate, as long as the ovary. Petals lilac, Ungu- 

 late, shortly united at the base, but little longer than the calyx. 

 Filaments shorter than the linear anthers. 



Hab. Amazon Valley ; introduced from Para by Linden. Flowered at the 

 Botanic Garden of Liege, in Oct., 1869, and by Madame Legrelle d'Hanis, 

 after whom it is named, in Sept., 1871. Described from a young plant at Kew, 

 and Morren's figure. 



8.'K. AGAv^FOLiA Dovans. in Rev. Hort. 1878, 190 (M.D.) 

 Bromelia agavafolia Brong. ; K. Koch, Etud. Brom. 12. — Acaules- 

 cent. Leaves 80-40 in a dense rosette, moderately firm in texture, 

 lanceolate, 2 ft. long, 2-3 in. broad at the middle, much narrowed 

 to the base, bright green on the face, thinly lepidote and finely 

 lineate on the back, armed with large pungent marginal prickles. 

 Flowers in a nearly sessile central capitulum, overtopped by the 

 bright red lanceolate reduced inner leaves ; flower-bracts narrow, 

 scariose. Ovary cylindrical- trigonous, ramentaceous, f in. long, 

 sepals linear, erect, as long as the ovary. Petals white, half as 

 long again as the sepals, shortly united at the base. Filaments 

 about as long as the linear anthers. 



Hab. Cayenne ; sent by Leprieur to the Paris Garden in 1853. Described 

 from a living plant at Kew, Morren's figure, and dried specimens from Dr. Karl 

 Koch, and in the Paris collection. Eegnell's 1258 from Caldas, has narrower 

 leaves and pubescent outer bracts, and is probably a distinct species. 



4. K. HUMiLis E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1872, 131 ; Antoine 

 Brom. 38, t. 22-23; Devans. in Rev. Hort. 1878, 190, with figure. 

 Bromelia humilis Jacq. Ic. t. 60. B. hemisyhcBrica, Lam., ex parte. 

 Madvigia Jmmilis Liebm. — Acaulescent, stoloniferous. Leaves 

 about 60 in a dense rosette, ensiform, rigid, spreading, a foot long, 

 an inch broad low down, narrowed gradually to tlie tip, bright 

 green on the face, thinly lepidote and lineate on the back, armed 

 with hooked pungent marginal prickles. Flowers about 30 in a 

 nearly sessile capitulum 2-3 in. diam., overtopped by the bright 

 red reduced ensiform inner leaves ; flower-bracts lanceolate, 

 scariose, reaching to the tip of the calyx. Ovary cylindrical- 

 trigonous, an inch long, clothed with brown ramentum, as are the 

 lanceolate sepals, which are nearly as long as the ovary. Petals 

 reddish, shortly connate at the base. Ungulate, nearly twice as 

 long as the calyx. Filaments shorter than the anthers. 



Hab. Mexico and New Granada. It flowered in 1857 with Mathieu, at 

 Berlin ; with M. Antoine, at Vienna, in 1873 ; and in 1877 with M. Devansaye, 

 at Fresne. 



5. K. Redoutei Baker. Bromelia Karatas, var. caiilescens Red. 

 Lil. t. 457. — Acaulescent, stoloniferous. Leaves rigid, ensiform, 

 5-6 ft. long, 3-3^ in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the 

 tip, bright green and glabrous on the face, thinly albo -lepidote on 

 the back, armed with large pungent hooked marginal prickles. 

 Peduncle 2J-3 ft. long ; its leaves ensiform, arcuate, bright red, a 

 foot or more long. Flowers in a dense globose capitulum, sur- 

 rounded by several ovate scariose dull-coloured bract-leaves, with 



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