The plant from which the accompanying drawing has been 
taken, was brought in the early part of the year (1824) to the 
Liverpool Botanic Garden from Jamaica, by Mr Wiles. 
Ruiz and Pavon, who first described it, discovered it in Pe- 
ru. As a genus belonging to the Natural Order Bromelice, it 
is admirably characterized by its superior germen, and by its 
anthers, as well as corolla, cohering, so as to form a tube ; the 
arrangement of its anthers thus exactly resembling that which 
prevails in the Cla s Syngenesia. 
It blossomed in the stove in the month of November. 
Fig. 1. Flower. Fig. 2. Flower deprived of its calyx. Fig. 3. Anther 
seen from without. Fig. 4. Tube of the Anther spread open, and seen 
from without. Fig. 5. The same seen from within. Fig. 6. Inner view 
of a single anther. Fig. 7- Pistil. Fig. 8. Section of a germen.—-^// 
more or less highly magnified. 
