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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    sepals lanceolate, minutely mucronate. Petals red-purple, half as long again as the sepals. Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 81)86 ! 11095 ! Introduced into cultivation by Dr. Glaziou to Liege, in 1880. It was grown at Berlin in the days of Kunth. I cannot separate specifically, a plant draw by Professor Morren under the name of ^E. pulchella, one form of which has the leaves vertically striped with lines of brown on the back towards the base. Closely allied to jE. distichantha. A living plant, sent to Kew in 1888, had leaves 7—8 feet long. 76. M. EXCAVATA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1879, 134.—Leaves lorate from an ovate base, 2-3 ft. long, 11-2 in. broad at the middle, pale green, the curved marginal prickles l-12th in. long. Peduncle 3-4 ft. long; bract-leaves sheathing. Inflorescence a dense oblong panicle 8-10 in. long, with about 20 ereeto-patent densely-flowered distichous branches 1-^-2 in. long; flower-bracts minutely cuspidate, ^ in. long, with sides entirely adnate to the rachis. Calyx with ovary J in. long; sepals lanceolate, cuspidate, longer than the globose ovary. Petals red-lilac, exserted I in. Hab. Paraguay, near Assomption, Gibert! Calot! Bolivia ; Corrientes, D'Orbi(jnij 113! Chiquitos, Weddell I 77. /E. MYRiopHYLLA E. MoiTcn, inedit. (M.D.); Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 0939.—Leaves 30-40 in a utricular rosette, ensiform from an ovate base, 2-2^ ft. long, an inch broad at the middle, dull green on the face, thinly white lepidote not banded on the back, firm in texture, tapering gradually to a long point, with middle-sized horny marginal prickles. Peduncle erect, ft. long ; bract-leaves im- bricated, all adpressed. Inflorescence a lax bipinnate panicle ft. long, with short spreading densely-flowered distichous branches 1-14 in. long, subtended by small ovate-cuspidate bracts; rachises straight, pubescent; flowex’-bracts red, broad-ovate, cuspidate, J in. long, adnate by their edge to the rachis more than half way up. Calyx with ovary ^ in. long; sepals oblong lanceolate, cuspidate. Petals ^ ill. longer than the calyx, at first pink, then lilac-purple. Hab. South Brazil. Introduced by Glaziou in 1886. Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, Oct.. 1886. Nearly allied to .E. dintichantha. 78. ^E. jucundaE. Morren, inedit. (M.D.).—Leaves 10-12 in a utricular rosette, lorate, a foot long, f-1 in. broad at the middle, plain green on the face, white-lepidote on the back, with a few irregular transverse bands, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the mar- ginal prickles minute. Peduncle slender, much overtopping the the leaves ; bract-leaves adpressed, imbricated, not brightly coloured. Inflorescence a dense rhomboid bipinnate panicle 3 in. long, with short ereeto-patent densely-flowered distichous branches; flower- bracts round-cuspidate, red, ^ in. long. Calyx with ovary ^ in. long, both red; sepals oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate. Petals lilac, shortly exserted. Hab. South Brazil. Introduced by Glaziou in 1881. Described from Prof. Morreu’s drawing, made Jan., 1886. Allied to .E. dii^ticliaiillia. 79. iE. BRACTEATA Gi'iseb. FI. Brit. West. Ind. 592. Ih-ouicliu hraeteata Swartz, Prodr. FI. Ind. Occ. 5(5. Ilohenhert/ia hraclealK Baker in lief. Bot. sub t. 284. Ijeaves 12-20 in a utricular