XL. 
BROMELIA AQUILEGA. 
Water-holding Bromelia, 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Bromeliz. Juss. Gen. p. Ag. 
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Sect. II. Pericarpium inferum. 
Pericarpium oblongum, 3-loculare. Calyx 3-phyllus. Corolla gone basi squamis me llifera 
Semina plurima, obion nga, re a: ante rigide dam parasitice. Folia radicalia,. 
sepius serrato-spinosa. Flores spicati paniculative. Bractew oblonge, colorate. Genera 
antiqua Plumieri, que sub hoc dahedie Linné, omni procul dubio restituenda. 
B. foliis latis, serrato-spinosis, basi tumidis, apice subtruncatis: paniculd long’: floribus sessilibus. 
Sponte nascentem in Ins. Jamaica, legit D. Hurlock. 
Floret apud nos rarissime, Septembri et Octobri. 
I received this plant from the above = ame Island fifteen years ago, and cultivated it while 
I resided at Chapel Allerton, out its flowers, which were produced I believe i 
for the first time in this country Splinter 30%, 1804, in the stove of Isaac Swainson, Esq. at 
tckenham. No specimens being preserved, I cannot describe an any part of it from and 
knowledge except the leaves, which are of a faint green, sharply serrated, and so much ila wen 
» as to retain a considerable quantity of water: this in our dios is soon ee 
Jervas. The Peduncle I am informed was more than 3 feet high, and covered ith m “ys 
pubescence, like other plants of this Natural Order. The flowers exuded a liquid of the co 
and consistence of milk, in such abundance as to drop from them. sk Geis, 
I dare not yet quote the Bromelia Bracteata of Swartz, as being the same agg wi +eig? ’ mo 
he describes the stigma 3-fid, and neither Houstoun’s own specimen from La Vi eed 
that from the Mosquito Shore, both preserved in Sir Joseph Banks? herbarium, agree su y . 
with the dissections before me, I have little doubt alte that it isa : true Bromelia, a genu 
me 
REFERENCES TO a PLATE. 
. A Flo 
. A Howe dissected, without the er act 
3. Front and back view of an Anther 
Stigma magni ; 
5. . Young Fruit cut longitu din 
