This fine plant flowered, probably for the first time in Bri- 
tain, during last year (1823), at the Botanical Garden of Li- 
verpool. Again, this year, it has produced.a noble spike of 
blossoms, a representation of which, through the kindness of 
my friends Messrs SHEPHERD, I have now the pleasure of lay- 
ing before the public. 
A comparison of this figure with the one an quoted of 
~PrLuMIER, will show that. no reasonable doubt can be enter-— 
tained of its being intended for the same plant, and’ conse- 
quently, that it is the figure referred to by LINNZ@vus and 
WILLDENOW as the true Bromelia nudicaulis. The indivi- 
dual represented in the Botanical Register is the B. pyrami- 
dalis of Stms, in the Botanical Magazine; and the latter au- 
thor quotes, with a mark of doubt, the synonyms of ey 
WILLDENOW and PLuMIER. 
This plant was received at Liverpool from Trinidad, by 
favour of the Baron Dr Scuack, from whom likewise we have © 
individuals in our garden, which have not as yet flowered. 
Fig. 1. Single flower. Fig. 2. The same deprived of the calyx. Fig. 3. 
Petal with its stamen. . Fig. 4. Stamen from the receptacle.—All more 
or less magnified. 
