Schlumbergeria
(named in honour of F. Schlumberger, a Belgian horticulturist). Anoplophytum has been used as a generic name for one or more of the species. ORD. Bromeliaceae. A rather doubtful, South American genus, comprising two or three species of stove, perennial herbs. Flowers mediocre or rather large, disposed in rather loosely-branched spikes; sepals erect, convolute-imbricated, free; petals connate in a tube, the limb free, spreading or at length reflexed; stamens adnate to the tube; bracts shorter than the calyx. Leaves rosulate, entire, long-ligulate. The species require culture similar to Tillandsia (which see).
S. Lindeni (Linden's). This is the correct name of the plant described in this work as Massangea Lindeni.
S. Morreniana (Morren's). fl. yellow; bracts dark purple; spikes several, dense-flowered, congested into a short, compact bunch; scape tall, with green, adpressed bracts. l. gracefully recurving, 3ft. long, green, marked with numerous darker green, transverse lines above, and with reddish lines beneath. Habitat unknown. 1883. A noble plant. (B.H.1883, 4-6.) S. Roezlii (Roezl's). fl. sessile, spirally arranged, lin. long; calyx green; corolla white and green, salver-shaped. l. 1 1/2ft. long, 1 1/2. wide, spreading, unarmed, green. h.3ft. Andes of Peru, 1379. A plant of bold habit. (B. II, 1879, 19.)