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TILLANDSIA rubida 



Madder -coloured Tillandsia. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Bromeliace^e. 



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TILLANDSIA. Botanical Register, vol. 2.fol. 1 05 



tbida ; undique lepidota, foliis ovato-lanceolatis canaliculatis acuminatis 

 exterioribus recurvo-patentibus, scapi vaginis acuminatis erectis, spica 

 oblonga subcomposita, bracteis lanceolatis mucronatis calycibus paulo 

 longioribus petalis brevioribus, sepalis petalia brevioribus, filamentis 

 versus apicexu sigmoideis, ovario obovato. 



A dry-stove epiphyte, imported from Brazil by Messrs. 

 Loddiges, with whom it flowered in February last. It is a 

 very pretty plant, gay with madder-coloured flowers for many 



weeks. 



It is nearly related to T. stricta, already figured at fol. 

 1338 of this work, but its bracts are scurfy, not smooth, and 

 are terminated by a long stiff point ; the flowers are red not 

 violet-coloured, and much longer than any of the bracts ex- 

 cept the lowermost. It is also not improbable that in T. 

 rubida the spike may become very decidedly branched, of 

 which there are plain indications in the specimen figured ; in 

 T. stricta there is no tendency whatever to branch. 



It will grow well if placed in a basket, and hung from the 

 rafters of the stove. The back or end-wall of a pine stove 

 would suit it very well, and the general treatment should be 

 the same as is applied to those plants. 



It is*to be suspected that this and other species may lurk 

 in herbaria under the name of T. stricta ; of one instance at 

 least yejiave evidence in the case of the plant distributed by 

 Professor Gardner under the number 134, and since pub- 

 lished by him as T. stricta in the London Journal of Botany. 



/November. 1842. 2 a 



