"stamens, and a little exceeding the corolla, white below, green above, 
glabrous. Stigmas 3, variously curved, and somewhat twisted. 
‘This interesting plant is seen in its greatest beauty, when, 
emerging from the crown of its dark lurid“leaves, the panicle 
appears covered by the large, closely-imbricated, and brilliantly- 
coloured bracteas. For, no sooner has this panicle attained its 
full size, andthe flowers have protruded themselves, than the: 
fine colour disappears, the bracteas soon fall away, and the 
flowers themselves exhibit little or no vividness of hue to re- 
commend them, except it be the deep blue tint which tips the 
extremities of the segments of its calyx and corolla. | 
Mr LoppicEs appears to have first figured and described 
this plant in his Botanical Cabinet, under the name of Til- 
landsia amena. Myr Ken afterwards figured it in the 344th 
plate of the Botanical Register, with the appellation here 
adopted, from a weak plant, however, in which one of the flowers 
of each peduncle was wanting, from abortion. There is even 
In our specimen, an appearance, indicated by a short process 
at the summit of many of the pedicels, of a tendency to ramify 
still more. 
Bromelia pallida flowers readily in the tan-pit, early in 
the wifiter. Plants of it were sent to my collection in Suffolk, 
five years ago, by my friends Messrs SHeruEerp of Liver- 
pool; and the same liberal cultivators have likewise communi- - 
cated individuals to our Glasgow Botanic Garden, from which 
the fine specimen in the accompanying drawing was. oer 
It is supposed to be a native of South America. 
er Plant, reduced to about 3d of the natural size. Tas. 42. Panicle, 
nat. size. Fig. 1. Flower, deprived of the calyx. Fig. 2. The same, 
_ ‘deprived of the calyx and corolla. Fig. 3. Germen, cut through trans- 
versely. Fig. 4. The bases of 3 Stamens, to shew the scales alternating 
with them. Fig. 5. Single Scale.—All more or less magnified. 
