268 BROMELIACEAE 
2. P. paniculatus (Spreng.) Small Plant 3-6 dm. tall: leaves with slender 
petioles and ovate blades, 7—11 em. long: m le 1-1.5 em. long, many-flowered : 
TATT deu pk perianth mainly blue or EE - rA -lobes 2 
lone 9-11 mm. long: corolla- rs eon slightly longer than and abou 
de s the E lobes, the narrower one pale and with 2 bs 
blote hes below pm middle.—Ditehes and wet pinelands, pen. Fla. Nat. of 
Brazil and cult.—(W. I., C. A., S. A.) 
Famity 3. BROMELIACEAE — PINEAPPLE FAMILY 
Epiphytie or rarely terrestrial herbs, commonly with scurfy foliage. 
Leaves usually crowded at the base of the owering stem: blades entire 
Gynoecium 3-carpellary, the ovary superior or inferior: styles united. 
es numerous. Fruit baccate or capsular iM 45 genera and 900 
species, natives of tropical and subtropical Ameri 
Ovary superior: fruit capsular: leaves spineless: plants 
epiphytic. Tribe I. TILLANDSIEAE. 
Ovary inferior: fruit a syncarp, baccate: leaves spiny: 
pian nts terrestrial. Tribe II. BROMELIEAE. 
NDSIE 
Corolla ee ovoid, or urcéolate: i rec PNE stamens with straight fila- 
ents and not dilated upward. 
Corolla cylindric; petals of a spatulate type, much longer than the sepals: 
capsule ees 
Flowers LIN ór 2 together, terminating naked peduncles: style short, 
columnar. 
Stems pendant, elongate, filiform: flowers surpassed by the slender- 
tipped bracts of the involucre. 1. DENDROPOGON. 
Stem not pendent, short: flowers exceeding the 
short bracts of the involucre. 2. DIAPHORANTHEMA. 
Flowers ies to ny in simple or branched 
i ike hich Xormingte a eee flower- 
talk: style elongate, filifor 3. TILLANDSIA. 
Corolla SON urceonale petals o e as long as the 
epals or slightly longer: capsule ovoid. 4, CATOPSIS. 
oe arae much constricted above the middle: 
ns with spirally twisted filaments which are 
Spoon likè where the anthers are attached. 5. GUZMANNIA. 
II. B 
eris plants with a rosette of elongate em from 
ich arises a ds flower-stalk upon the top of 
which the fruit ripen 6. ANANAS. 
1. DENDEOPOGON Raf. Pendent festoon- like epiphytic plants, with 
regularly leafy stems. Leaves remote: blades linear-filiform above the base. 
Flowers cami ——HRepresented only by the din Species. 
1. D. usneoides (L.) Raf. Plant clothed 
with B scales. Stems fili T 
lo 0 
lowish: capsules 15—30 mm. long: seed- 
body subulate, 2.5-3 long.—(Lone- 
S SPANISH-MOSS. | FLORIDA-MOSS. 
CRAPE-MOSS. - PS E S, 
especially in hammocks and mps, 
Co aa Plain and ay "n "icut 
F A ? 
QV. I 
widely aistribated epiphyte and the most 
