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ORDER 1. MONOGYNIA: i ftyle. 
616. URANIA. Calyx 0-. foro/ 3-petalled: 
"cleaved, with an additional bifid leafet: cafjule 
inferior, j-celled, many-feeded ; Jeeds in 2 rows, 
covered with an aril. 
Urania. 
Madieafcar. 7 acq.hort.Schanb.\.p.\f.t.<) 2 >’ 
Tree with an undivided trunk : leaws 2-rowed ; fpadtx axillary, 
CKSix fpat he! z-rowed, ovate, concave, many-flowered. 
617. BROMELIA. Calyx 2 cleft, fuperior: petals 2, 
with a neftariferous fcale at the bafe of each : 
berry 3 -celled. 
Leaves ciUate with fharpfpines: fpikecomofe. Pineapple. 
Surinam. Bhckr.!:. t. 567, 568. Ccmm. hort. l . p. 109. /. 57. • 
The fruit varies much in fize, colour and lhape. 
Leaves ciliate with fharp fpines : raceme terminal. 
Weft Indies. ^re-M. ehr. /. 51. Pill. elth. t. 240./. 311. 
Fruit feparate, about the fize of a walnut. 
Leaves ere£l : flowers ftemlefs, feflile, cluftered. 
South America. Jucq pi 3 . 47 • t. 260, /. 24. ^ 
Leases linear-fubulate, edged with lupines ; Wrr rofe-coloar . 
calyx and germ downy : fruit oval, in a central duller. 
Leaves ferrate-fpinous, obtufe : fpikes alternate. 
South America. Plum, gen 26. tc. bi, f.i. 
Leaves ferrate-fpinous ; brakes ovate-lanceolate : feape 
elongated: raceme compound, with fubdivided raceme- 
lets : flowers feffilc. 
Jamaica. Houjl. rel p- 7- t. \ 6 . ^ 
Brakes membranaceous, very entire, Icarlet 
'Sera 
Leaves, ferrate-fpinous: braaes lanceolate . 
pound, with fubdivided racemelets : flowers pedunclcd. 
eJ Indies. S^-artz prodr. 56. FI. ir.d. occ. i. /. S« 5 - 
Braites alternate, membranaceous, Icarlet. 
Leaves ferrate-fpinous: braaes lanceolate, t^ed: 
ceme compound at the bafe, lliorter than the leaves. 
flowers peduiicled. ^ 
Caraccas. Jacq. hort. Zchecnl. p. 28, 55 ' 
Braaes withering, lanceolate, yellowifti, toothed. 
nudicaulis,. 
