Gusmannia tricolor. 
163 * 
~GUSMANNIA trraicotor. | 
Three-coloured Gusmannia. 
HEX ANDRIA MONOGYNIA. —Nart. Orp. BROMELLA. 
GEN. en —Calyx inferus, 3-partitus, laciniis convolutis. . Petala in tu- 
bum convoluta (atque coalita). Anthere in cylindrum coalite. Cap- 
sula trilocularis. Semina numerosa, oblonga, nuda.—Pers. | 
: Gusmannia tricolor, Ruiz et Pavon, Fi. Reree! v. iii. p. 38. t. 261. —Pznrs- 
Syn. v. i. p. 344.—Lopp. Bot. Cab. t. 462.—Linpx. Coll. Bot. t. 8, 
Pourrettia sympaganthera, “ Ruiz et Pavon, Syst. p. 82.” 
Habit and mode of growth of a Tillandsia or Bromelia ; everywhere ‘gla. 
brous. Leaves radical, linear-ensiform, broad and involute at the base, 
plane and acute at the extremity, faintly striated, saa entire at the 
margin, from 1 to 2 feet long. 
Scape of about the same length as the leaves, clothed teew with lanceo- 
late, acuminate, very pale and large sterile bracteas, convolute at the 
margins, above having broadly ovate, acute floriferous concave green 
bracteas, streaked with red ; the uppermost of all bright orange-red. _ 
Flowers placed singly in each ares, and shorter than it, about an inch 
long. Calyx deeply cut into 3 linear oblong, pale yellow, green, rigid, 
imbricated, upright segments. Corolla white, of 3 petals, their long 
claws united into a tube of a very delicate texture, the lamina ovate, 
erect, very rigid and cartilaginous, with the margin imbricating. Stas 
mens 0, syngenesious. Filaments attached to the summit of the tube, 
and shorter than the corolla, below apparently decurrent with it, broad, 
white, cohering by their margins. Anthers oblong, at first yellowish, 
_afterwards pale bluish-grey, formed of two cells, which open longitudi- 
nally. Pistil superior. Germen oblongo-ovate, tapering into the linear 
filiform white Style, which is terminated by the trifid small Stigma. 
The Germen has three cells, each cell containing a considerable number of 
seeds, attached to a receptacle in the inner angle. 
* The No. 163. has occurred twice on the iia by a mistake, which we did not — 
discover till it was too late to we able to rectify it. 
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