. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . nesabout five inches in length, and about three in breadth :petiole thick, short. Panicle terminal, numerous, nearlyopposite, spreading, distant: peduncles corymbosely many-fiowered, shorter than the pedicles, subtended by smallleaves gradually diminished into mere bractes at the upperpeduncles: pedicles one-flowered, with a small subulateherbaceous bracte at their base. Leaflets of the calyx short,subulate, herbaceous, scarcely so long as the roundish furredinferior portion of the germen, of the outer covering of whichthey are a con
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . nesabout five inches in length, and about three in breadth :petiole thick, short. Panicle terminal, numerous, nearlyopposite, spreading, distant: peduncles corymbosely many-fiowered, shorter than the pedicles, subtended by smallleaves gradually diminished into mere bractes at the upperpeduncles: pedicles one-flowered, with a small subulateherbaceous bracte at their base. Leaflets of the calyx short,subulate, herbaceous, scarcely so long as the roundish furredinferior portion of the germen, of the outer covering of whichthey are a continuation. Corolla scarlet, pubescent, cla-vately tubular, nearly of the diameter of the stem of a swan-quill, shallowly protuberant at the base; lij)s of the limbvery unequal, upper one very large, outstretched, one-coloured, sides deflectent; lower one slanted, very short, re-volute, marked with a purple stain having a white border onthe inside. Filaments furred, red. Anthers cruciately con-joined. Stf/le scarlet, persistent, slightly protruded, 344 BROMELIA Bromelia, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat. ord, BnoMELiiE. Jussieu s;en. 49. Dk. II. Gerraen Bupr^ vol. 8. foL 203. B. palliday naniculd laxissimA, patentissimd, pauciflorS, pedunculis (in7iostra ptaiitd abortu 1-) floris; spathis supremis fertilibus, floreni aequan-tibu8, divaricatis. Fol. multifarihm ambientiay eredo-diver^entia, coriaceo-Jirmai lanceolatOlorata acumine hrevif remotiiis spinulosOCiliata^ coJivoluto-concava, longioraspithamcea v. vltrh. Caiilis erectus, dodrantalis v. ultrci, teres simpleXjspathacco-vaginaius: spathae singulares, sparscB) spJiacelato-membranosceyinvoluto-lanceolat(Sy acumiTiati^, inferiores foscescentes, imbricato-erectce, su-periores longiores^ divaricatcB^ vivide punicantes. Ramuli v. pedunculisubangulosij dislantes^ sparsi, crassif patenteSj margine anteriori in bracteas2 obsolete producti, inferiores in spathis axillares, superiores nudi^ 3-
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