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Cryptanthus (Supplement)

Baker reduces to one species, native of Brazil, the various garden plants described under this name. To the two forms described on p. 402, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. Beuckeri (Beucker's). fl. white, in a sessile, central cluster. l. disposed in an open rosette, petiolate, elliptic, acute or acuminate, light reddish, with numerous transverse, green, irregular lines or blotches, the margins spinulose. 1883. A remarkable, dwarf Bromeliad. (B. H. 1881, 17.)