41, 42. 
‘wt 
BROMELIA. patina. 
Pale-flowered Bromelia: 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Orv. BROMELIACES, Juss. - 
Gen. Cuar.—Cal. 3-fidus, superus.. Petala 3. Squama nectarifera ad basit 
petali. Bacca trilocularis.—Hort. Kew. 
Bromelia pallida; panicula laxissima patentissima, pedunculis_bifloris, 
spathis supremis fertilibus, florem eequantibus, divaricatis—Kerr, in 
Bot. Reg. 
Bromelia pallida, Bot. Reg. t. 344. 
Tillandsia amzena, Lopp. Bot. Cab. t. ‘76. 
Stem short, simple, wholly clothed with numerous, densely crowded, linear- 
lanceolate, channelled, patenti-recurved, dull blueishégreen, 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 bracteas or spathas. Si- 
milar bracteas 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 eepandidy they lose much of their 
brilliancy, and soon after fall away: 
Besiens between 2 and 3 inches in length, patent. Germen inferior, oblong; 
obtusely trigonous, marked with prominent lines, green, 3-celled, eacli 
cell with many ovules at the inner angles. Calyx 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 asthe 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. as rather — than the 
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