598 • BROMELlACE.ffi. 



above. Stamens included: anthers erect. Stigmas spreading. — Stem low, densely leafy 

 below, bracteate above ; leaves lepidote, linear-acuminate, channelled. 



31. T. pulchella, Hook. Stem incurved at the base: naked summit as long as the 

 leaves ; leaves imbricate, linear-acuminate from the gradually dilated base, erect-spreading, 

 channelled, lepidote, at length greenish ; spike few-8-flowered : bractlets somewhat distant, 

 oblong-lanceolate, membranaceous, usually with a foliaceous point, rosy ; sepals two-thirds 

 as long as the spathulate-liuear, white petals ; 2 united to |, keeled ; filaments unequal, 

 straightish ; capsule equalling the calyx: seeds devoid of a pappus. — Bot. Mag. t. 5229. — 

 T. pityphylla, Mart. {ex. descr.). — 4"-8" high, often branched below ; leaves 4"-3" long, 

 2'" broad at the base, lowest disappearing before anthesis ; bractlets (except the setaceous 

 summit) 6"'-8'", calyx 5"'-6'" long.— Hab. Trinidad (ScA.) ; [Cuba ! ; Venezuela !, Guiaua!, 

 on tree-branches, Brazil]. 



Sect. 4. Diaphokanthema, Beer. — Spike distichous: peduncles naked, few-\-flowered. 

 Petals naked within, spreading above the calyx. Stamens included: filaments straight : 

 anthers erect, introrse. Stigma obsoletely %-lobed : style short. — Stems low, leafy ; 

 leaves lepidote, distichous. 



32. T. recurvata, L. Stems csespitose ; leaves filiform, recurved : scaly down spread- 

 ing ; peduncles axillary, or terminal, subsolitary, exserted, 2(-5)-flowered ; spike included 

 by a sheathing bract, each flower by a bractlet, superior somewhat distant ; calyx 3-leaved, 

 i as long as the blue corolla ; capsule more than twice as long as the calyx : endocarp 

 brown, submembranaceous.— SI. t. 121./. 1.— About 6" high ; leaves 2"-3", bract 5"'-6", 

 capsule 1" long.— Hab. Bahamas ; Jamaica !, Al., Wils. ; Antigua !, Wullschl.; [Southern 

 United States !, and Cuba ! to Buenos Ayres !]. 



Sect. 5. Strepsis, Null. — Peduncles naked, lateral, 1-fiowered. Petals, stamens, and 

 short style of Diaphoranthema, but stigmas 3, spreading, capitate at the summit, and 

 ovary-cells few-ovulate. — Stems filiform, hanging, flexuose, branched, leafy ; leaves lepi- 

 dote, alternate ; peduncles solitary. 



33. T. usneoides, L. Whitish-lepidote from spreading, scaly down ; branches long, 

 interwoven ; leaves filiform, spreading-recurved ; peduncles shorter than the leaves : branch 

 and 2 branchlets at their summit filiform, the former as long as the calyx, the latter exceeded 

 by it; petals "purple," spathulate, half as long again as the 3-leaved calyx; capsule about 

 thrice as long as the calyx : endocarp purplish-brown, chartaceous. — SI. t. 122.fi 2, 3. ■ 

 l'-4'long; leaves 1 "-2", capsule 8'" long : seeds 9-18.— Hab. Jamaica!, JL, Wullschl.; 

 Antigua!, Wullschl., hanging from trees ; [United States ! to Uruguay ! and Chili!]. 



10. GUZMANIA, B. P. 



Character of Tillandsia, but anthers cohering. — Habit of Vriesea, but spike pluriserial- 

 imbricate. 



34. G. tricolor, R. P. Leaves oblong, acute, slightly dilated at the base, devoid of 

 scaly down, most rosulate, erect, about as long as the ceutral, bracteate stem ; bractlets 

 ovate, pointed, including the flower, variegated, uppermost red ; sepals 3, ventricose-ovate, 

 blunt, convolute, two-thirds as long as the white corolla, half as long as the capsule ; ex- 

 serted part of the couniveut petals ovate, blunt. — R. P. Peruv. t. 261 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5220. 

 — -T. comosa, Bert.—V high ; leaves 1" broad; bractlets 16"'-12"', calyx 8'" long.— Hab. 

 Jamaica !, Pd., AL, Wullschl., March, on rocks, S. Andrews ; [Cuba ! to Vortorico ; J e- 

 nezuela ! to Peru]. 



11. CARAGUATA, Plum. 



Character of Tillandsia, but corolla sympetalous, and stamens inserted into the throat of 

 its cylindrical tube. — Stem simple, leafy below; leaves broad, pointed, devoid of scaly 

 down ; bracts pluriserial-imbricale. 



35. C. lingulata, Lindl. Leaves oblong, mucronate-pointleted, dilated at the base, as 

 long as or longer than the stem j flowers in a termiual head, yellow, exceeded by ovate- 

 oblong, somewhat rosulate, foliaceous, red bracts ; sepals lanceolate-acuminate, half as long 



