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BILLBERGIA fasciata. 
Banded Billbergia. 
Se RE 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. BROMELIACER. 
BILLBERGIA, Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1068. 
Sect: 1. Stamina omnia calyce inserta. Stigmata hnearia: 
Sect. 2. Stamina alterna petalis super squamam inserta. 
petalordea. ' 
B. fasciata; spici proliferé capitula bracteis involucrata, foliis glaucis 
obtusis apiculatis recurvis spinoso-serratis albo fasciatis, scapo hispido. 
Folia radicalia glauca, erecto-recurva, canaliculata, ligulata, obtusa, 
apiculata, spinoso-serrata, hic illic fasciis albis tomentosis, nunc interruptis 
trajecta. Scapus 14 pedalis, foliosus, hispidus. Spica capitata, composita, 
prolifera, bracteislongis, roseis, acumtnatis, spinoso-serratis involucrata. Calyx 
superus, coriaceus, glaber, 3-partitus, non 3-phyllus ; laciniis cordato-ovatis, 
pluri-costatis, cartnatis, marginibus omnibus membranaceis, imbricantibus. 
Petala 3, purpurea, in margine disci epigyni cyathiformis inserta, unguicu- 
lata, concava, super basin squamd lacerd munita, disco subplicato corrugato. 
Stamina 6, 3 petalis alterna, in eddem serie inserta, 3 petalis inserta infra 
medium ; filamenta linearia, membranacea, versis basin subteretia; an- 
theree lutescentes, sagittate, antice, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, 
estivatione marginibus coherentes, filamentis medio dorso adherentes. Ova- 
rium lanatum, triloculare, polyspermum., Stylus jiliformis, apicem versis 
incrassatus. Stigmata 3, crespa, petalordea, mox convoluta. 
Stigmata 
A native of Rio Janeiro, whence it was received by 
Mr. Samuel Brookes, of the Ball’s Pond Nursery, where 
the accompanying figure was made, in August 1826. 
A remarkably handsome stove plant, requiring the 
assistance of a bark bed, and propagated by offsets of the 
spike and root. It has nearly the same relation to true 
Billbergias that the Tillandsia nitida of Professor Hooker 
bears to the genuine species of Tillandsia. The white 
bands of the leaves, and the rich rose-coloured bractez of 
this species, give it a particularly beautiful appearance. 
