[Plate 70.] 



THE LONG-LEAVED BROMELIA. 



(bromelia longifolia.) 



A Hothouse Perennial, from Guiana, belonging to the Natural Order of Bromeliads 



Specif it: Character. 



THE LONG-LEAVED BROMELIA. — Leaves very long, scurfy, with spiny teeth, curved backwards, and extended 

 into a long, linear, bristle-shaped point. Spike globose, nearly sessile, many-flowered. Bracts oblong, roundish, 

 serrulate, with a sharp abrupt point, covered with white meal. Sepals linear-lanceolate, somewhat spiny, mealy, 

 rather more than half as long as the petals. 



Bromelia longifolia : Budge, Plantcc guianenses, p. 31, t. 49. 



EOR this very fine Bromeliad we are indebted to Mr. Henderson, of the Wellington Road 

 Nursery, who exhibited it at the meeting's of the Horticultural Society, as the 



Tlllanclsia ■ of some manufacturer of garden names. It is a true Bromelia, and 



was long since published in the work above quoted, with a figure in outline made from 

 a dried specimen collected in Guiana by Martin. 



Leaves from one and a half to two feet long, narrow, channelled, tapering to a fine 

 point, coarsely spiny-toothed, white beneath, greyish green, and smooth on the upper side, 

 gracefully curving away from the centre. Head of flowers like a rich rose-coloured cone, 

 standing on a short stalk, with a few narrow crimson spiny bracts at its base, powdered 

 with a white meal. The proper bracts are broadly ovate, concave, cuspidate, finely serrated, 



