BROMELIACEAE 269 
characteristic feature of the Coastal Plain swamps. "The plant is used as fodder 
and in upholstery. 
2. DIAPHORANTHEMA Beer. Limp, very gregarious epiphytic plants, 
with peduncle-like flowering branches. Leaves several on the short stem or 
branches, the blades elongate-subulate, re- 
curved from the imbricate bases. Flowers 
in a terminal long-peduneled spike. Style 
columnar, as long as the ovary or shorter.— 
out 6 species, mainly tropical American. 
1. - debe (L.) Beer. Plant gray- 
fuzzy, 5-15 em. tall, the stems and branches 
often’ densely clustered: sae blades peri 
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iry: se eod ls 7-9 mm. LIN aeute: petals 
viole t, 12-14 mm. long: capsule 2-2.5 em. 
long. Pun ai Mad Ee peer 
Moss.  BuNCH-MOSS.)—Hammocks, rub, 
prem swamps, me pinela i. Coa "s rd Plain, Fla. to Tex.—(W. I. Mex 
C. 4A.)—Frequently on insulated electric wires and other unnatural 
SERA 
. TILLANDSIA L. Stiff, epiphytic, solitary or ‘gregarious plants with 
leafy flower-stems. Leaves several or many, mainly in a basal rosette, flat or 
dilated and sometimes saccate at the base, those on the flowering stem more or 
less reduced. Flowers in simple or branched spikes with imbricate bracts. 
tyle filiform, much longer than the ovary.—About 350 species, natives of warm 
and tropical America.—AIR-PLANTS. WILD-PINES. 
Main rachis of the inflorescence covered with the closely 
imbricate more or less distichous bracts. I. FASCICULATAE. 
Main D of the inflorescence exposed, the bracts, at 
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flowers sessile : corolla cream-color or ivory- -white. II. UTRICULATAE. 
Bracts, flowers, and capsules lax or spreading: flowers 
pedicelled : corolla lavender to rose-purple. III. ALOIFOLIAE. 
I. FASCICULATAE 
Leaves with short slightly-dilated bases which are narrowed 
into elongate-subulate straight erect tips. 1. T. tenuifolia. 
Leaves with long much dilated bases which are narrowed 
into short or elongate curved or twisted tips. 
Leaf-bases flat or nearly so, not forming a bulb-like 
swelling at the base of ‘the flower-stem 
asal leaves erect or ascending, except the more or 
less spreading or curled tips. 
Inflorescence not contracted, the lateral branches 
erect or ascendin 
x reis with a concave upper face: stem- 
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. T. simulata. 
Leaf blades with a V-shaped upper face: stem- 
leaves with erect or appressed filiform tips. . T. myriophylla. 
. T. juncea. 
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. T. Valenzuelana. 
