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5. H. ROSEA E. Morren inedit. (M.D.). — Leaves ensiform- 

 acuminate, l-|-2 ft. long, an inch broad above the ovate base, 

 tapering gradually to a long point, stiffly erecto-patent, much 

 tinged with brown, armed with large ascending hooked pungent 

 marginal prickles. Peduncle erect, longer than the leaves ; bract- 

 leaves adpressed, with long red linear tips. Inflorescence a lax 

 panicle 3-4 ft. long, with several long distant ascending or spread- 

 ing spicate branches, subtended by small scariose lanceolate branch- 

 bracts ; flower-bracts minute, ovate. Sepals oblong, J in. long. 

 Petals bright red, twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. Mexico. Described from Professor Morren's drawing, made Nov., 1885. 

 This may be H. Roezli Hort., said to be " entirely red in summer." 



6. H. STENOPETALA Klotzsch in Otto & Dietr. Gartenzeit. 1835, 

 401 (M.D.). H. cordylinoides Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6554. H. 

 Besseriana Hort. — Leaves about a hundred in a dense rosette, 

 ensiform-acuminate, slightly arcuate, l-|-2 ft. long, 1-1^ in. broad 

 low down, tapering gradually to the point, green and glabrous 

 above, persistently white-lepidote and lineate on the back, armed 

 with middle-sized ascending deltoid-cuspidate pungent prickles.: 

 Peduncle stout, stiffly erect, as long as the leaves ; bract-leaves 

 ensiform, erecto-patent. Inflorescence an oblong panicle 5-6 ft. 

 long, compound of numerous ascending cylindrical spikes -^ in. 

 diam., the lower branches sometimes compound ; flower-bracts 

 ovate, acute, minute. Sepals oblong, obtuse, under a line long in 

 the staminate flowers. Petals white, oblong, ^ in. long. Stamens 

 a little longer than the petals. Male flower with a rudimentary 

 ovary and 3 short styles. 



Hab. Mountains of Central Mexico, ScJdede d; Deppe. Introduced into 

 cultivation by Karwinski about 1835. Described from a plant that flowered at 

 Kew in the summer of 1880. 



7. H. ? LONGiFOLiA Hort. — Leaves 40-50 in a rosette, ensiform, 

 3-4 ft. long, IJ in. broad at the middle, narrowing slightly down- 

 wards and gradually to an acuminate point, rigid in texture, 

 arcuate, plain green and glabrous on the channelled face, obscurely 

 lepidote on the back, armed with middle-sized deltoid-cuspidate 

 upcurved prickles horny at the tip, but stramineous, not brown. 

 Flowers unknown. 



Hab. Country unknown. We have had this at Kew since 1872, but it has 

 not flowered. It came so named from Dr. Kegel. In habit and leaf it closely 

 resembles Bromelia fastuosa. 



Tribe IIL— TILLANDSIE^. 



27. SoDiROA Andre. 



Calyx gamophyllous, thin ; tube cylindrical ; segments generally 

 ovate. Curolla gamophyllous ; tube cylindrical ; segments short, 

 oblong. Stamens inserted in the corolla -tube ; anthers connate. 

 Ovary free, ampullaBform, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; 

 style long ; stigmas short. Capsule oblong-trigonous, coriaceous. 

 Seeds linear, erect, with a long funiculus splitting up into fine threads. 



