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drooping spike ; raclus very slender, flexuose ; flower- bracts minute. 

 Ovary oblong, green, glabrous, ^ in. long, not sulcate ; sepals 

 lanceolate^ glabrous, ^ in. long. Petals Ungulate, 1^ in. long, 

 green with a sudden distinct blue edge. Stamens as long as the 

 petals. 



Hab. Brazil, Glaziou 11678 ! 16436 ! Sello 4001 ! Corrientes, Bonpland 

 1110 1 Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, Jan., 1878. First tlowered 

 at Herrenhausen in 1869. 



IG. B. BuRCHELLii Baker. — Produced leaves 5-G in a utricular 

 rosette, connivent in the lower half foot, eusiform, 1^-2 ft. long, 

 f-1 in. broad at the middle, green on the face, thinly white-lepidote 

 on the back, moderately firm in texture, narrowed grMdually to the 

 point, the marginal prickles distinct, spreading, deltoid. Peduncle 

 slender, a foot long; all the bract-leaves erect. Flowers 6-12 in a 

 lax cernuous spike, with a slender very flexuose naked rachis, all 

 subsessile and only minutely bracteated. Ovary oblong-cylindrical, 

 naked, shallowly sulcate, ^ in. long ; sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 f-| in. long. Petals If in. long, greenish with a blue tip. 

 Stamens a little shorter than the petals. 



Hab. Woods of South Brazil, Burchell, 4860 ! Glaziou 12227 ! Sello 61 ! 

 182 ! First gathered by Burchell in Aug., 1827. Intermediate between B. 

 Liboniana and B. nutans. 



17. B. iRiDiFOLiA Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1068 ; Knowles and 

 Westc. Floral Cab. t. 105 ; Reich. Fl. Exot. t. 262 ; E. Morren in 

 Belg. Hort. 1874, 193, t. 8, 9. Bromelia iridifuUa Nees & Mart. 

 Nova Acta xi. 16. — Produced leaves 5-6 in a utricular rosette, 

 ensiform, 1-1 f ft. long, 1-1 J in. broad at tbe middle, not at all 

 rigid in texture, bright green on the face, thinly white-lepidote 

 without any transverse bands on the back, narrowed to the point, 

 the marginal prickles distant and very minute. Peduncle a foot 

 long ; upper bract-leaves bright red, lanceolate, ascending, 3-4 in. 

 long. Inflorescence a very lax drooping spike 4-6 in. long, 

 with a slender glabrous flexuose red rachis ; flowers solitary, 

 nearly all subtended by large bright red scariose clasping bracts. 

 Ovary oblong, glabrous, ^ in. long; sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 f in. long, reddish tipped with blue. Petals If- 2 in. long, 

 greenish tipped with blue. Stamens and style as long as the 

 petals ; anthers linear-oblong, pale yellow, J in. long. 



Hab. Woods of Southern Brazil, Blanchet 22771 Glaziou 122281 16432 1 

 15475 ! Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, March, 1877. It was 

 first gathered by Prince Maximilian of Neuwied, in 1817. 



18. B. LiETZEi E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1881, 97, t. 5—7 

 (M.D.). — Leaves 6-10 in a utricular rosette, ensiform, l-l^- ft. 

 long, 1-1^ in. broad at the middle, moderately Arm in texture, 

 plani green on the face, thinly white-lepidote, without distinct 

 bands on the back, narrowed gradually to the tip, the marginal 

 prickles very minute. Peduncle under a foot long ; upper bract- 

 leaves pink. Inflorescence a lax drooping raceme with a flexuose 

 pink rachis, nearly all the flowers subtended by large clasping pink 

 lanceolate bracts, the lower with short pedicels. Ovary pink, 

 oblong, -}^ in. long ; sepals pink, lanceoJate, i| in. long. Petals 



