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1357 



TILLANDSU* rosea. 



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Pink-headed Tillandsi«. 



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itEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. ord. Bromeliace^; Jussieu. {Lindleys introduction to the 

 ural system of botany, p. 256.) , \ 



TILLANDSIA.—Supn), vol. 1. fol. 



I 



T. rosea ; folils ligulatis acuminatis furfuraceis patentibus, spica ovata soli- 

 taria foliis vix longiore, bracteis ovatis concavis. ■ 





Our drawing ^of this uVidescribed species of Tillandsia 

 was made some years since, from a plant in the possession 

 of the Marchioness of Bath,_ It flowered in the month of 

 May, but having affordeTonly a single specimen, we had 



■fl 



pporfunity of examining it in detail 



It 



ever, distinguished' sufficiently by its ovate head of flowers 

 scarcely higher than the leaves, arid bright pmk bracteae. 



A native of Brazil. J " ^ \ \ \\ 



In the second edition of Sweet's Hortus ^'^^^ilf""'' 

 which is just published, we find the nkmes of live lillana- 

 sias, with which we are {iria6qAainted ;' but this can scarcely 

 be one of them, as they are all stated to be natives of the 

 West Indies, arid none of the names are applicable to tne 

 species now represented. In the last' Number of this pub- 

 hcation we observed, in speaking of Mr. Loudon s Hortus 

 Britannicus , that whatever inconvenience the public migni 

 experience from the Linnean arrangement of that worK, 

 would be remedied by consulting Mr. Sweet s Cataogue, 

 which is arranged upon the Natural System. At that time 

 we were not aware that the new Catalogue, by the same 

 author, to which we have just referred, was upon the eve oi 



* Supra, vol. 14, fol. 1157. 



