Canistrum
(from canistrum, a basket; in allusion to the inflorescence resembling a basket of flowers). ORD. Bromeliaceae. Stove epiphytes, with showy inflorescence, and requiring similar culture to Billbergia (which see). C. aurantiacum (orange).* fl. orange-yellow, in a cup-shaped involucre of orange-red bracts; scapes erect. June to September. l. ligulate-lorate denticulate, deflexed. Brazil, 1873. (B. H. 1873. 15.) C. eburneum (ivory).* fl. white, green, disposed in a depressed head, the white ovaries of which give an appearance as of eggs in a basket. May. l. tufted, mottled, the central ones cream-coloured, surrounding the flower-heads. h. 2ft. SYNS. Guzmannia fragrans and Nidularium Lindeni. Brazil, 1876. (B. H. 1879, 13, 14.) C. roseum (rose-coloured). fl. white, green; bracts rosy. 1879. C. viride (green). fl. green. l. green, canaliculate, acuminate, irregularly toothed. Brazil, 1875. SYN. Nidularium latifolium. (B. H. 1874, 16.)