Handbook of the Bromeliaceae / [John Gilbert Baker].

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

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    HANDBOOK OF BROMELIACE^:. acute. Petal-blade lanceolate, as long as the calyx. Stamens longer than the petals. Hab. West Indies. Known only from two figures of Plumier, drawn between 1689 and 1697. Suhgenus 11. Cyathophora (K. Koch). 30G. T. NiGREscENS Aiidre Enum. 8. — Eadical leaves lanceolate from a dilated base, acute, a foot long, spotted and streaked with violet. Peduncle much longer than the leaves ; bract-leaves imbri- cated, adpressed, the lower striped with violet, the upper tipped and margined with red. Spike oblong, dense, multifarious, 2-3 in. long; bracts ovate, acute, scariose, margined with brownish-red. Calyx brown ; tube short; segments oblong. Corolla white. Hab. Andes of Southern Columbia at Altaques, alt. 4200 ft., Andre 3327. 307. T. ? conantha Baker. Bonapartea strohilantha Ruiz et Pav. PI. Peruv. t. 263. Muavdra struhilantha Dietr. Acanthospora conantha Spreng.—Leaves few, thin, lanceolate, flexible, a foot long, an inch broad at the middle, narrowed to the point. Peduncle 1^ ft. long; bract-leaves lanceolate, adpressed. Inflorescence a dense subglobose multifarious capitulum 2 in. long; flower-bracts suborbicular, ^ in. long. Calyx as long as the bract; sepals acute. Petal-blade small, ovate, white. Stamens as long as the petals. Hab. Peruvian Andes. Known to me only from Ruiz and Pavon’s figure and description. It may be Anoplophytum calotlujrsus Beer, gathered'' by Poeppig in 1829, at Pampayaco. 308. T. capitata Griseb. Cat. Cub. 255.—Leaves about a dozen in a dense rosette, lanceolate-acuminate from an ovate base an inch broad, 5-6 in. long, ^ in. broad at the middle, subcoriaceous, thinly persistently lepidote on both surfaces. Peduncle shorter than the leaves; bract-leaves crowded, with large free lanceolate recurved tips. Inflorescence a dense oblong multifarious capitulum 1^ in. long; bracts ovate-acuminate, firm in texture, lepidote, the lower 2-3 in. long. Calyx ^ in. long ; sepals obtuse. Petals not seen. Capsule above an inch long. Hab. Cuba, Wright 3274 ! 309. T. sph^rocephala Baker in Journ. Bot. 1888, 141. — Leaves few in a rosette, lanceolate-acuminate from an ovate base an inch broad, half a foot long, § in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to a setaceous point, subcoriaceous, thinly lepidote. Peduncle 3-4 in. long; bract-leaves with large lanceolate free points. Inflorescence a globose multifarious capitulum 1 in. diam.; flower-bracts ovate, acuminate, subcoriaceous, the lower 5-4 in. long. Calyx f-1 in. long ; sepals acute. Petal-blade oblong, ^ in. long. Capsule an inch long. Hab. Andes of Bolivia ; Sorata, alt. 9000—10,000 ft., Mandon 1188 ! Le Paz, alt. 10,000 ft., liusbij 2848 I 310. T. oxysepala Baker in Journ. Bot. 1888, 141. — Leaves about a dozen in a rosette, lanceolate-acuminate from an ovate base an inch broad, 8-9 in. long, | in. broad at the middle, subcoria-