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flower-bracts minute. Sepals lanceolate, f-§ in. long, equalling 

 the cylindrical ovary. Petals twice as long as the se^Dals. Style 

 just exceeding the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil, near San Bento, Schimper 270. 



Subgenus 2. Libonia {Lemaire). 



28. B. MARMOBATA Lemairc in 111. Hort. t. 48 (M.D.). — Leaves 

 8-10 in a utricular rosette, lorate, lf-2ft. long, 2 in. broad, firm in 

 texture, suberect, connivent for the lower foot, copiously mottled 

 with darker green and brown spots all over the thinly lepidote 

 back and faintly mottled on the green face, rounded to a cusp at 

 the tip, the marginal spines minute and inconspicuous. Peduncle 

 a foot long, nearly hidden by the connivent bases of the leaves, 

 with a few small bright red spreading bract-leaves aggregated near its 

 apex. Flowers 8-12 in a short erect spike, all sessile, erecto- 

 patent, minutely bracteated. Ovary oblong, green, ^ in. loug ; 

 sepals oblong, violet, shorter than the ovary, connate at the base. 

 Petals an inch long, bright violet-blue, white downwards, spreading 

 only at the tip. 



Hab. Central Brazil, Glaziou 12233 1 Sent by M. Libon in 1853 to 

 De Jonghe. 



Subgenus 3. Helicodea (Lemaire). 



29. B. PALLiDiFLORA Liebni. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hafn. 1854 ; Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. ser. 4, ii. 373 (M.D.). — Leaves about 10 in a utricular 

 rosette, connivent in the lower half foot, lorate from an ovate base, 

 1^-2 ft. long, 1-1^ in. broad at the middle, firm in texture, plain 

 green on the face, thinly lepidote and furnished with many in- 

 distinct white transverse bands on the back, deltoid-cuspidate at 

 the tip, with minute deltoid marginal prickles. Peduncle a foot 

 long ; bract-leaves scariose, ascending, lanceolate, greenish-white. 

 Inflorescence a lax erect simple spike 4-6 in. long ; flowers all 

 sessile, ascending, not bracteated. Ovary oblong, whitish-green, 

 deeply sulcate, i in. long; sepals oblong, shorter than the ovary. 

 Petals narrow, entirely green, 2 in. long. Style reaching the tip 

 of the petals. 



Hab. Nicaragua. Introduced to Copenhagen in 1854 by Dr. Oersted. 

 Described principally from Prof. Morren's drawing, made from a plant that 

 flowered in the Botanic Garden of Liege, in April, 1872. 



30. B. zEBRiNA Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. sub t. 1068 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 1912; E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1872, 65, t. 4, 5. Bromelia 

 zehrina Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 2686. Helicodea zehrina Lemaire. 

 BlUbergia farinosa Hort. — Produced leaves 5-6 in a rosette, con- 

 nivent for the lower foot, lorate from an oblong base, 2-3 ft. long, 

 2-3 in. broad at the middle, very horny in texture, stiffly arcuate, 

 dull green, often tinged v/itli brown, with copious white spots and 

 white transverse bands on both sides, the lower marginal prickles 

 sometimes ^-^ in. long. Peduncle very cernuous, l-lf ft. long, 

 with 6-8 pink lanceolate bracts 3-4 in. loug, aggregated towards its 



