1338 



TILLANDSI^* stricta. 



t' 



Erect Tillandsifl. 



^r 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. ord. Bromeliace^e. 

 TILLANDSIA.—Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 105. 



T. stricta ; foliis canaliculato-subulatis pruinoso-canescentibus, spica multi- 

 flora terminali. Spreng. syst. 2. 24. 



T. stricta. Bot. mag. 1529. . » « „ ,.«„ 



Folia recurva, pruimso-lepidota, lanceolata, acuminata, convoluta, scnpo 

 iongiora. Scapus strictus, minks lepidotus. Flores amceni et intense 

 tcBTulei, bracteis magnis, ventricosis, obhngis, acutis; tnfenonbus cuspidatis . 

 Petala apice ovata, acuta, patentia, bracteis (Bqualia. 



In J 



Native of Buenos Ayres and Brazil ; from the former of 

 which countries it was received by Peter Kendall, bsq., a 

 zealous cultivator of curious hothouse plants, who presented 

 it to the Horticultural Society. Our drawmg was made m 

 the Chiswick Garden in March last. 



This is among the most beautiful of its tribe^"^^^"^ 

 that is very easill cultivated. Mr. Kendall finds it succeed 

 remarkably well with the following treatment, 

 he takes it out of the stove, and suspends it from a wall in 

 the open air, where he leaves it without water, attention or 

 protection, till the succeeding October ; thus crea ing a 

 sort of artificial winter. When the time fo»-..P^«^"^,f^;/ 

 again in the stove arrives, it is found withered, discoloured 

 and in appearance half dead : as soon however, as t is 

 again submitted to heat and moisture it re^?^^'^^;^/'^^' 

 commences a new and vigorous growth, and m tbf course 

 of a few weeks loses all trace of its previous sufferings. 



♦ SuprJi, vol. 14. fol. 1157. 



