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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    HANDIiOOK OF iuiomeltace.t:. face, thinly white-lepiclote on the hack, narrowed gradually to the point, the marginal prickles close, large, blackish, ascending. Peduncle stout, stiffly erect, tloccose, in. diain. at the top ; lower bract-leaves green, u])per red. Head of dowers globose, under an inch in diam. ; axis densely cottony; dower-bracts small, rigid, ovate, emarginate. Flowers under an inch long. Ovary globose ; sepals ovate, minutely mucronate. Petals shortly protruded, bright yellow, soon changing to brown-black. Hab. South Brazil. Introduced into cultivation lately by Dr. Glaziou. Flowered by Dr. Hegel at St. Petersburg in 1886. May be an extreme form of A^j. bromelicefolia. 122. /E. MACRONEOTTiA Baker.—Leaves not seen. Peduncle 2-3 ft. long, with many large, scariose bract-leaves. Indorescence a dense oblong spike 4-5 in. long, 1^ in. diam.; dower-bracts white-lepidote, forming a globose nest ^ in. broad and deep. Ovary globose ; sepals obtuse, not mucronate, ^ in. long. Petals not seen. Hab. Central Brazil; between Goyazand Cuyaba, Weddell! (Herb. Paris). Subgenus 11. Canistrum (E. Morren). 123. M. AURANTiACA Baker in Jouvn. Bot. 1879, 235. Canistnuii aurantiacum E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1873, 257, t. 15 (M.D.). Cryptanthus clnvatus Hort.—Leaves about 20 in a short rosette, recurving from low down, lorate from an ovate base, 1^-2 ft. long, 2-2^- in. broad at the middle, moderately drm in texture, green on both surfaces, faintly spotted with darker green when young, rounded to a cusp at the apex, the marginal teeth close and small, lanceolate, l-12th in. long towards the base of the blade. Peduncle erect, above a foot long, hidden by the adpressed imbricated greenish scariose bract-leaves. Flowers 50-100 in a dense globose capitulum 2 in. diam., surrounded but not overtopped by ovate acute entire erect adpressed bract-leaves, which are about 2 in. long, the outer greenish, the inner bright red. Flower lf-2 in. long; sepals oblong, obtuse, cuspidate, as long as the ovary. Petals Ungulate, orange-yellow, in. longer than the calyx. Hab. Perna^^■lbuco, liidleii cO llamafjel Flowered by Professor Morren at Litige in July, 1867. Described from a plant at Kew and the drawings of Prof. Morren and Mr. llamage. Introduced into cultivation by Porte. 124. M. ROSEA Baker. Cnnistnnn rof^eum E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1879, 301, 1883, 195. t. 14, 15 (M.D.).—Leaves about 20 in a short open rosette, lorate from an ovate base, l .}-2 ft. long, 2^-3in. broad at the middle, moderately firm in texture, plain green mottled with darker green, deltoid cuspidate at the tip, the mar- ginal teeth minute. Peduncle erect, 0-8 in. long; bract-leaves scariose, pink. Inflorescence a globose capitulum 2-3 in. diam., surrounded and overtopped by a whorl of ovate piuk falcate serrated bract-leaves 3-4 in. long. Flower 1-1—14 in. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, as long as the clavate ovary, both white and farino.se. P( tals pale green, sliortly protruded.