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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. Asa genus belonging to the N atural 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 
 arrangeinent of its anthers thus exactly resembling that which 
prevails i in the Class Sy yngenesia. 
It blossomed in the stove in the month of Nov ember. 
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 asingle anther. Fig. 7. Pistil. Fig. 8. Section of a germen.—All 
more or less highly magnified. , 
