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wliite-lepiclote on the back with a few transverse bands, narrowed 

 suddenly to a deltoid apex, the marginal prickles small, ascending, 

 tipped with brown. Peduncle mealy, a foot long, with 5-6 ascend- 

 ing bright red bract-leaves aggregated near its apex. Inflorescence 

 a drooping raceme 8-4 in. long with a stout straight mealy rachis, 

 none of the flowers or only the lowest subtended by a large red 

 bract; pedicels short. Ovary clavate, mealy, ^ in. long; sepals 

 linear-oblong, mealy, nearly an inch long. Petals an inch longer 

 than the calyx, green with a violet-blue tip. Stamens nearly as 

 long as the petals ; anther linear, pale yellow, ^ in. long. 



Hab. Brazil ; province of Bahia. Sent to Kew by Mr. Wetherill in 1859. 

 Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in April, 1878. 



22. B. viTTATA Brong. ; Morel Portef. Hort. ii. 353, with figure ; 

 E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1871, 193, t. 14, 15. B. ainabilis Beer 

 Brom. 118 (E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1874, 19, t. 1, 2). B. Leo- 

 poldi K. Koch non E. Morren. B. jjulcheyrimali. Koch. B. zonata 

 Hort. B. Rolianiana De Yriese in Linnaea xxvi. 756 ; Tuinbow 

 Flora, ii. t, 3. B. Moreliana Lemaire in Jard. Fleur. t. 138 ; 

 Lindl. in Paxt. Flow. Gard. t. 77. Tillandsia Moreliana Henfrey 

 in Gard. Mag. Bot. iii. t. 53. Bromelia Ruhaniana Walp. Ann. vi. 

 71. — Leaves 8-10 in a utricular rosette, conaivent ni the lower 

 foot, lorate, 2-3 feet long, 2 in. broad at the middle, horny in 

 texture, green on the face, conspicuously and copiously banded on 

 the back with white, rounded to a cusp at the apex, the marginal 

 prickles blackish, ascending, small but conspicuous. Peduncle 

 1-|— 2 ft. long, with many ascending lanceolate bright red bracts 

 6-6 in. long aggregated towards its apex. Inflorescence a drooping 

 panicle |-1 ft. long, the short lower branches often 3-4-flowered, 

 many subtended by large bright red bracts. Ovary cylindrical, 

 mealy, ^-^ in. long ; sepals linear-oblong, cuspidate, |-1 in. long, 

 reddish, tipped with violet. Petals an inch longer than the sepals, 

 the exposed part violet, the rest greenish. Stamens nearly as long 

 as the petals ; anthers linear, bright orange-yellow. 



Hab. Woods of Southern Brazil, GZa^/oji 8983 ! 14339! 16429! One of 

 the finest of all the cultivated Bromeliads, and now widely spread. It was first 

 sent from Bahia by Porte to M. Morel, of Paris, about 1847. 



23. B. Saundersii Hort. Bull.; Floral Mag. n.s. t. 106; E. 

 Morren in Belg. Hort. 1878, t. 1, 2. B. chlorosticta Hort. 

 Saunders ; Gard. Chron. 1871, 1425. B. quiniutiana Hort. Makoy 

 (M.D.). — Produced leaves 5-6 in a utricular tuft, connivent in the 

 lower half foot, lorate, l|-2 ft. long, 1^- in. broad at the middle, 

 horny, plain green or brownish -green on the face, thinly white- 

 lepidote beneath with copious white spots and white transverse 

 bands, the marginal prickles close, small, bright brown. Peduncle 

 a foot long, with several ascending bright red bracts aggregated 

 towards its ap6x. Inflorescence a lax drooping raceme with a 

 flexuose reddish farinose rachis, the spreading flowers all only 

 minutely bracteated ; lower pedicels ^ in. long. Ovary turbinate, 

 ^ in. long ; sepals linear-oblong, red, nearly an inch long. Petals 



