B R O M E L I A. 



whe-ice 't. trivial name, and by which it is fo clearly diftin- Martyn, and even La Marck, will by no means include aU 



emftied from the preceding, that it ought to form part of the (pccies ; we have therefore enlarged the former, and 



fhe fpecinc charaacr. Bana ovate, of a bright red co- abridged the latter, m order to make them fufficiently cora- 



lour. Its Itavcj like thofe of the European dlpfacui, or prchenli 



tcaU'l, retain the water from rain and dew, and afford a deli- 

 cious draught to tlie hunter and traveller in its native fcorch- 

 ing climate. Common in the woyds of the Well Indies, 

 and fcnt from the coai\ of Guinea to Mr. Miller. 6. B. 

 P'uala. La Marck. " Radical leaves fiiorl and fpnious ; 

 rtem-lcaves very long and very entire, without Ipints." 

 Burm. Anier Rool-leai'ct lanceolate, (liarp-pointed, llri- 

 atcd, covered beneath with a whililh powder, and a little 

 enlarged at the bale. Sum or Stuns cyhndric, l"rni, about 

 the itiicknefs of the finger. Stcm-U.ives fword-fhapcd, pen- 

 dent. Flown of a beautiful red, in a clofe pyramidal 



Prcpagation, Culture, and Ufi. The Ananas, or com- 

 mon pineapple, has long been cultivated in the Weft In- 

 dies ; but its fruit has only lately been brought to perfeftion 

 in Europe. The firll perfon who completely fuccceded was 

 Monf. Le Coiir of Leyden, in Holland, a contemporary of 

 Mr. Miller ; though it was introduced into England fo far 

 back as 1690 by Mr. Bentick. It is propagated, either 

 from feed, or from the crown at the top of the fruit, or 

 from the fuckers at the fide of the lUm. As the method 

 of propagating by feed is the flowed, it is fcldom pra&Ifcd 



Europe. There are, moreover, here comparatively few 



fpikc, Br<ia<s lanceolate. Corolla thrre-pctalled'; petals plants which bear perfed feed, owing, as Mr. Mailer con- 



an inch and a half long, ending in a fm .1! purple point 

 Stamn:s white, included in the corolla. Native of Martinico. 

 7. h. lin^vLit.i. Linn. " Leaves fcrrate-fpinous, obtufe ; 

 fpikes alternate." Mill. Root perennial, fibrous. Root-leaves, 

 foine almoll lying on the ground, others upright, pale 

 >;reen, concave, many of them rolled up into the Ihape of a 

 horn, and terminated by a fliort blunt point. Sinn four feet 

 high. Slem-lejv.-s alternate, oblong, pointed, concave, 

 without fpines. Spikes, one terminal, the others in the ax- 

 ils of the fcalcs, or upper leaves of the Hem. Flowers 

 fmall, fefiile. Dirries round, with a fmall point, in fimple ra- 

 cemes, of a bright coral red. Seeds fmall, oblong, reddifh. 

 A native of the Well Indies. 8. B. braaeuta. Willd. 



jcftured, to the greater number having only fti^minifcrous 

 flowers ; and he founded his opinion on the dif erent fitua- 

 tion of the cells in the two kinds ; thofe which produce 

 feed Iving near the centre of the fruit, and thofe which are 

 abortive nearer the rind. 



When ;he feed is intended to be preferved, the ripe fruit 

 fliould be hung up in a warm room, till all the moiilure of 

 its pulpy part is evaporated, and fhould afterwards be kept 

 in a dry place. In fpiing, when the weather begins to grow 

 wartTii tlie feed fliould be fown in a pot filled with good 

 garden earth ; the pot fliould then be plunged in a hot-bed ; 

 and v%hen the plants have acquir.-d a certaia height, they 

 fliould be removed into frefl; pats, and treated like other 



«' Ler.ves fcrrate-fpinous ; bracles ovate-lanceolace ; fcape tropical plants. The grand elfjutial is to guard them from 

 rlonjatcd ; raceme compound ; branchlets fubdivided ; flow- too much moiilure. 



er feflfile." Swartz. Root perennial, paralitical. Brakes 

 fcarlet, membranaceous, very entire. y. B. pamculigera. 

 WiUd. " Leaves ferrate-fpinous ; brades lanceolate ; ra- 

 ceme compound ; branchlets fubdivided ; flower peduncled." 

 Swartz. Scape more than a foot high. Brades fcarlet. 



The Ananas, contrary to a common- opinion, is thcnight 

 by fome perfons to be equally good, whether it be produced 

 from the crown or the fuckers. See the next article. 



Bromelia, in Gardeniagy compithends a plant of the 

 fine fruit kind, the B. ylnanas, or pine-apple, and fome other 



alternate, membranaceous, half a foot long. Raceme two feet fpecies railed for the purpoft of variety 

 long,erea. /Wunc/f/ an inch long, tomentofe. 10. B. Cl;ry- Of the firft there are ieveral varieties in cultivation; but 



fantba. Willd. " Leaves ferrate-fpinous ; braftes lanceolate, thofe which principally deferve the attention of the culti- 



toothed ; raceme fubcompound, fliorter than the leaves ; flow- vator, are the queen, which, is '.he mod to be relied on for 



ers peduncled." Raceme a foot long, compound at the bafe. a certain and regular crop ; the Antigua and fugar-loaf, the 



Flowers yellow. Peduncles fmooth. Brakes flirivelliiig. fruit of which is larger; the Montferrat ; the king, and 



J I. H. Aeanga. I>inn. " Panicle ciiffufe ; leaves ciliatc-fpi- the g;reen pine. 



nous, fliarp-pointed, recurved." Native of Brazil. This The white pine, called by Miller the queen pine, is the 



ipecies, which appeared in the firll edition of the Species moft common in Europe. Its flcfli is whitifli and fibrous; 



Plan'^arum, was omitted in the fecond, from a doubt whether and its rind, when ripe, is as yellow as that of an orange 



it is fp«cifically diflincl from B. Karatas ; but, on farther 

 confidera'tion, it was replaced by Linnxus hiinfclt in the Syf- 

 trma Natu.'^, and has been admitted by the fubftquenl edi- 

 tors of the Species Plantarum, but is not noticed by La 

 Marck. 



Plumier, and the other older botanifls, divided this genus 

 into three ; yiuat'.a, Karata, and Bromelia. The flowers of 



Its fmtll is highly pleafant, and it excels moft of the reft ia 

 fize and btauty ; but it falls fliorr. of fome others in flavour, 

 edges the teeth, and makes the lips fmart. The yellow pine 

 edges the teeth Icfs ; but both are exceeded by the fugar 

 loaf, which is diftinguiflied from all the others by the purple 

 ftripes on the infide of its leaves. Its fruit, when ripe, in- 

 clines to a ftraw colour. The Montferrat pine is now rare in 



the Anana, fayS Juflieu, are in a clofe fpike, on a fcape Europe, but is efteemed one of the beft in America. The. 

 which is leafy at to^D i as the fpike ripens, it takes the form protuberances of the fruit ave longer and flatter than thofe 



of a flefliv, fcaly, efculcnt ftrobile, compofed of united 

 berries, which are fcaroely divided into cells, and frequently 

 do not ripen their feeds. The Karatas have a denfc radical 

 cor^'mbus, and ovate berrifs. The Bromelias are ?oofely 

 fpiked or panicled on a fcape or ftem; and the fruit can 

 Icarcelv be called a bcrr)-. La Marck, if he were not un- 



f the common fort. Th'.- fmooth pine may be a diftinft 

 fpecies : its fruit having no crown of leaves, and its root 

 and ftem-leaves being without fpines. There are feveral 

 other varieties ; but as they are continually changing, it is. 

 not ncceflary to fpedfy ihem. 



The Karatas is chiefly propag:ated by feeds; for though it 



willing to increafe the number of genera without abfolute throws out fuckers, they are ilUfliapen, and produceun 



neceflity, would be difpofed to keep the /ItianmnA Karata fightly plants. The feeds fliould be fown early in the 



united, on account of their common receptacle and mono- fpring, in fmall pots filled with light rich earth, and plunged 



petalous corolla, and to feparate the reft which have poly- into a hot-bed of tanner's bark. When the plants are 



petalous corollas on diftinft receptacles. The general and ttrorg enough, they Oiould be tranfplanted each into a fepa.« 



effential charafters, as they ftand ip Linnseus, Schrej^er, raj* pot, and again plunged into the hot-bed, where they 



fliould 



