BROMELIA

(Lat.), n. f. 'i?-23. From 0, Bromel, a Swedish physician and botanist. Fr,. bromelia, bromélie. Of Plumier, a genus of bromeliaceous plants of the tribe Bromelieæ. Ï N Fr, 19, 215.) —B. ananas [Linsæus]. The Ananas sativus. [B, 173. A West Indian and South American species B. cavatas [Linnœus). | [B, 180.]—B. chrysanth a [Jacquin]. A bearing an edible fruit. ©, no; 02, not; 0%, whole; Th, thin; Th?, the; U, like 00 in too; U*, blue; US, lull; U4, full; US, urn; US, like ü (German), South American species bearing a very sweet fruit. [B, 180.]-B. humilis aba uta See KARATAS humilis,—B. karat as [Jacquin]. See Karatas Plumier i.—B. long i folia [Rudge]. The quire by ure + a species with a very large edible fruit, [B, 2 B. mal-pourri [Perrotet]. Fr., maipourri. A French Guiana species bearing an edible fruit. (he J—B. pinguin [Linnæus]. Sp., timbirichi [Mex. Ph.]. A West Indian species bearing yellowish berries of the size of a hen’s egg, of an agreeable taste. An acid cooling drink made from them is used in fevers, and they are considered anthelminthic and antiscorbutic. [B, 19, 173, 180, 245; J. M. Maisch, “Am. Jour. of Pharm.,” March, 1886, p. 122.] BROMELIACEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. Brom-e?l-i?-a(a3)’se2(ke?)-?). Fr., broméliacées, The bromeliads, or pine-apple family; of Ju ieu and succeeding authors, an order of monocotyledons of the series Epigyne [Bentham and Hooker] or the order (cohort) Liliiflore, comprising the tribes Bromelieæ, Pitcairnieæ, Puyece, and Tillandsiee. [B,19; Wittmack (B, 245).]