Ananas nanus (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm.

Ananas sativus, Lindi., yar. microcephalus, Baker, Handb. Bromei
Trinidad (831); Pilcomayo River (1555). November-January.
= Balansa 609.
The basal rosette very similar to that of no. 341, but the leaves
are fe,wer in number, and none of them scarlet colored as in that,
or sd long. Flowers on a thick central stem, which is scurfy dotted
below, 3-6 dm. high, bearing smaller leaves like those of the rosette.
Flowers in a thick oval head 8-10 cm. long, each subtended by a
pink-colored, spine-edged bract. Sepals reddish; petals purplish.
The fru^t is harsh and unpalatable. This without much doubt is
the original wild form of the cultivated pine-apple. The leaves are
used like those of no. 341 in textile manufactures. Found in similar
situations as that, but rarer.
BOTANICAL
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NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
PLANTS OK SOUTH AMERICA
——/q Collected by Thos. Morong, 1888-1890.
'y/i	ff _ JPiloomavo Rivar. Paraguay.	/ A'
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