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spike 6"-14", inferior bracts and partial spikes 4"-3" long; bractlets at length spreading, 

 4 , flowers 8"'-6'" long.— Hab, Jamaica! (Sm.) ; S. Vincent !, Guild, ; Trinidad !, Cr., at 

 Matura Beach. 



8. A. paniculigera, Gr. Leaves oblong, abruptly enlarged at the base, green ; bracts 

 oblong-lanceolate, much longer than the cymes, reduced between them ; panicle long, race- 

 miform, downy, or glabresceut : cymes or scorpioid spikes numerom, sessile along the rhachis, 

 all conform, or the uppermost reduced to single, sessile flowers : flowers in each cyme dis- 

 tant from each other, lateral, sessile : bractlets small, subulate, awned, much shorter than 

 the calyx-tube ; calyx-lobes ovate, terminated by a short, recurved awn ; petals spathulate, 

 exserted, "purple."— 5oif. Mag. t. 3304. Bromelia, Sw. {ex descr., non Sw. herbar.). BiU- 

 bergia purpm^eorosea, Eooh. (Hoplophytum, Beer) .—Scape several feet high; leaves 2'-3' 

 long, 2i"-3" broad at the middle, 4''-6" at the base; raceme l'-2' long, 2''-3" broad : in- 

 ferior scarlet bracts 4"-6", cyme-intemodes 4"'-8"', calyx 5"'-8"' long.— Hab. Jamaica !, 

 Pd., on rocks and trees, S. Elizabeth ; [Venezuela !]. 



Sect. 3. HapLjEOHmea. — Calyx-tuie produced beyond the ovary : lobes mucronaie. Petals 

 perigynous, connivent : scales fimbriate, distant from their base, at the origin of the 

 epipetalotis stamens, but below the middle of their claw. — Spike terminal, simple: 

 bractlets small, subulate, awned. 



9. A. nudicaulis, Or. Leaves oblong, snbequal at the entire base, mucronate, dull- 

 green beneath ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, all distant from the spike; spike simple, 

 often lax, nodding, downy : flowers single, distant (or clustered) : braetlet much shorter than 

 the calyx-tube ; calyx -lobes oblong, blunt, mncronate ; petals spathulate, exserted, yellow. — 

 Plum. Ed. Burm. t. 62.— Bromelia, L. Billbergia, Lindl. Hoplophytum, C. Kch. BiUb. 

 lutea, Schult. (Bromelia, Mey. Esseq. .'). Billb. pvramidata. Beer. — Leaves li'-2' long, 

 lV-3" broad ; scape l\'~-V, rosy bracts 3"-2", flowers 8"' long.— Hab. Trinidad ! {Sch.) ; 

 fCuba !, on rocks aud trees ; Guiana !, Brazil]. 



6. MACROCHORDIUM, Vries. 



Petals distinct, suberect, bearing 2 cut scales at the middle within, epigynous with the 

 alternate stamens : the opposite 3, epipetalous stamens inserted between the scales. Anthers 

 erect, slightly cohering. Stigmas straight, short. Berry dry, many-seeded. — Scape mth 

 sterile bracts below the dense, simple spike ; leaves spiny-serrate ; flowers supported by a 

 clasping, woolly, awned braetlet ; calyx-lobes fieshy, blunt; corolla exserted, becoming 

 black. 



10. M. melananthnm, BeeTS^, Leaves oblong, rounded at the top, erect, green ; spike 

 short, oblong-cylindrical, blunt; petals purple-black, spathulate, blunt. — Bot. Reg. t. 766. — 

 Bromelia, Lindl. BiUbergia clavata, Lindl. — Leaves li'-2' long, 14"-24" broad : spines 

 blackish; scape about 2', spike li"-2", flowers 6"'-8"' long.— Hab. Trinidad ! ; [Guiana!, 

 at the base of trees]. 



TKiBi: II. TILLANBSIEM. — Ovary superior, or half-inferior ; fruit capsular. 



^ 7. BROCCHINIA, Schult. 



Petals distinct at the naked base, cohering at the middle with the monadelphous, hemi- 

 epigynous stamens. " Capsule half-inferior, introrsely dehiscent at the free summit : seeds 

 attached at the middle, with a naked appendage at both ends." — Stem stout, leaved at the 

 base, divided into a large, spreading panicle; leaves entire, rigid, devoid of scaly down, 

 somewhat pungent at the pointed summit ; petals little exserted, 



11. B. Plumierii, Gr. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, equal at the base: 

 branches of the panicle spiciform, nodding : flowers thrice as long as their internodes ; calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate-acuminate, half as long again as the, braetlet, very little exceeded by the 

 spathnlate-linear petals. — Bromelia panieuligera, Sw. herbar. {non Ft. Ind. Occ). Tillandsia 

 paniculata, L. ? : habit of Plum. Ed. Burm. t. 237, but too badly figured, to be quoted wiih 

 certainty.— Several feet high ; lower leaves 1' long, li"-l" broad, convolute at the pungent 



