Handbook of the Bromeliaceae / [John Gilbert Baker].

  • Baker, John Gilbert, 1834-1920.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Handbook of the Bromeliaceae / [John Gilbert Baker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    branches lax-flowered, reaching a foot in length, the lower com- pound ; flower-bracts ascending, oblong, strongly ribbed, an inch long. Calyx with ovary 1^ in. long; sepals lanceolate, 2-3 times the length of the ovary, conspicuously mucronate. Hab. Central Brazil; Bahia, Blanchet 2274 ! (Herb. Mus. Brit ). 7. S. Blanchetii Baker.—Leaves lorate, rigid, naked, in. broad, deltoid at the apex; marginal teeth minute. Inflorescence a lax panicle 1^ ft. long ; branches lax-flowered, the end one a foot long, the side one shorter’, arcuate; flower-bracts ovate, acute, erecto-patent, an inch long. Calyx with ovary an inch long; sepals lanceolate, f in. long, free to the base, little twisted, dis- tinctly cuspidate. Petals not seen. Hab. Central Brazil; Bahia, Blanchet I (Herb. Mus. Brit.). Inflorescence like that of Tillandsla Jlexuosa. 8. S. PODANTHA Baker.—Leaves lorate from an oblong base 5-G in. long, 4-4^ in. broad; blade 2 ft. long, 2 in. broad, mode- rately firm in texture, nearly glabrous; teeth close, brown, the lower 1 in. long. Peduncle stout; upper bract-leaves large, red, scariose. Inflorescence a lax, tripinnate panicle 2 ft. long ; branches 3-5 in. long, only a few of the lowest compound ; branch-bracts small, ovate ; pedicels erecto-patent, in. long, with a minute basal bract. Calyx with ovary f in. long; sepals ovate, minutely mucronate, shorter than the ovary. Petal-blade narrow, f in. long. Hab. South Brazil Glaziou, 16417! 17. /Echmea Fadz (C- Favon. Sepals lanceolate or ovate, free down to the top of the ovary, usually furnished with a spiny mucro. Fetals free, lingulate, scaled at the base, two or three times the length of the sepals. Stamens shorter than the petals, 3 epigynous, 3 attached to the base of the petals ; filaments filiform; anthers linear-oblong, dorsifixed. Oran/ inferior, 3-cclled; ovules mucronate, usually many, rarely only 3-4 in a cell; style filiform; stigmas flattened at the tip and spirally twisted. Fruit subcoriaceous or baccate. Seeds minute. Leaves densely rosulate, usually lorate, s|)iue-margined. Leaves of the peduncle scariose, often bright red. Injiorescence very various, spicate, racemose or panicled, the ultimate branchlets multifarious or distichous, each flower usually subtended by a coriaceous spine- tipped bract. Flowers smaller than in Bilibenjia, very various in colour. Subgenus 1. .dUcHMEA proper. — Inflorescence a panicle with multifarious branches. Petals 3-4 times the length of the mucro- nate sepals, twisting as they fade. .... Sp. 1-2. Subgenus 2. Hoiienbergia Schultes fil. (Ilojilnphi/tiim Beer).— Inflorescence a panicle with multifarious not strobiliform branches. Ovary terete. Blower-bracts and sepals coriaceous, mucronate. Petals shortly protruded.