B44 
BROMELIA pallida... 
Pale-flowered Bromelia.. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ae, 
Nat, ord. BroMELim. Jussieu gen. 49. Dive XL. ‘Germen inferuat, 
BROMELIA. Supra vol. 8. fol. 203. 
B. pallida, panicula laxissim’, patentissima, pauciflora, pedunculis 2- (in 
nostra ‘olantd aborti 1-) floris ; spathis supremis fertilibus, florem aquan- 
tibus, divaricatis, ; : vet 
Fol. ‘multifariam ambientia, erecto-divergentia, cortacco-firma, lanceolato- 
lorata acumine brevi, remotins spinuloso-ciliata, convoluto-concava, longiora 
spithamea v. ultra. Caulis erectus, dodrantalis v. ultra, teres simplex, 
spathaceo-vaginatus: spathee singulares, sparse, sphacelato-membranose, 
involuto-lanceolata, acuminata, inferiores fuscescentes, imbricato-erecte, su+ 
periores longiores, divaricate, vividé punicantes. Ramuli v. pedunculi 
subangulosi, distantes, sparst, crassi, patentes, margine anteriori in bracteas 
2 obsolete producti, toriores in spathis axillares, superiores nudi, 3-plo— 
breviores flore v. ultra. — Flores bition subbiunciales, diametro circitér penne 
scriptorie vulgaris, chloroleuct apicibus — livido-cerulescentibus, summitate 
ramulorum geminis collateralibus, supremo v. extertore in nostro exemplari con- 
stantér abortiente. Cal. duplo brevior corolla, firmior, nervosa, segmentis 
lanceolato-acuminatis corolle arcté applicitis. Cor. subsesquiuncialis, ore breve 
subbilabiato-patens, laciniis ligulatis convoluto-imbricatis, acumine obtusiusculo 
brevi.. Anth. lute, lineares, versatiles. Germ. cylindraceum, oblongum, 
viride, sulcato-striatum, triplo brevius corolla. Stylus subexsertus, viridis’: 
stigmata saturatiis viridia, dimidiato-lanceolata, linearia, in unum contorta, 
veltandém soluta. Sertumsquamosum ad basin interiorem floris omninod ut tn 
B ROMBLIA nudicauli, cujus descriptio videnda in vol. 3. fol. 203. 
As far as we have been enabled to ascertain, our plant 
is of an unpublished species. It differs widely from any 
we are acquainted with in the disposition of the inflorescence 
and colour of the corolla, the dulness of which forms a 
singular contrast with the brilliancy of the upper spathes 
of the stem. We have not learned its native country. 
The drawing was taken-at Mr. Malcolm’s nursery at 
Kensington; where it was cultivated in the tan-pit of the — 
hothouse, and flowered about the latter end of November. 
‘It had been obtained from a garden at Liverpool. We sus- 
pect it to be a South American plant. 
Leaves multifariously ambient, from upright divergent, 
of a leathery firmness, lanceolately lorate shortly tapered at 
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