41, 42. 
BROMELIA PALLIDA, 
Pale-flowered Bromelia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nat. Oud. BROMEUACE.% Juss. 
Gen. Char — Cal. 3-fidus, superus. Petala 3. Squama nedarifera ad basin 
petali. Bacca trilocularis. — Hort. Kew. 
Bromelia pallida ; panicula laxissima patentissima, pedunculis bifloris, 
spathis supremis fertilibus, florem aquantlbus, divaricatis.— iT^rr, in 
Bot. Reg-. 
Bromelia pallida, Bot. Reg. t. 344. 
Tillandsia amaena, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 76. 
Stem short, simple, ^^hoUy clothed with numerous, densely crowded, linear- 
lanceolate, channelled, patenti-recurved, dull blueish-green, thin, coria- 
ceous leaves, whose margins are sharply serrated, their bases broad and 
imbricated ; the largest of them 8 or 10 inches in length. 
Panicle terminal, taller than the leaves, cylindrical, branched ; branches dis- 
tant, patent, alternate, somewhat compressed, almost constantly two- 
flowered, shewing at their bases (except a few of the uppermost branches), 
large, deep rose-coloured, thin, ovate, concave bradeas or spathas. Si- 
milar bradeas sheath the base of the flowering-stalk ; these altogether, 
before the appearance of the flowers, are imbricated into a rich rose-co- 
loured or almost crimson spike, afterwards they become patent, deflex- 
ed, and by the time the flower is fully expanded, they lose much of their 
brilliancy, and soon after fall away. 
Flowers between 2 and 3 inches in length, patent. Germen inferior, oblong, 
obtusely trigonous, marked with prominent lines, green, 3-celled, each 
cell with many ovules at the inner angles. Cali/x shorter than the co- 
rolla, forming a tube around it, of 3 linear oblong segments, pale green. 
Corolla also of 3 linear-lanceolate segments, conniving, so as to form a 
tube, slightly ventricose and hyaline below, the rest pale yellow-green, 
except the apices, which are recurved, and tipped with blue. 
Stamens 6, of equal length, and about as long as the corolla. Filaments slender, 
thread-shaped, white, glabrous, inserted into the very base of the corolla,' 
just where it forms a tube with the marginal summit of the germen, and 
having, alternating with them at their base, a small, subquadrate, white 
membranaceous scale, cut into numerous awl- shaped segments at the ex- 
tremity. Anthers linear-oblong, yellow. Style rather longer than the 
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