272 BROMELIACEAE 
CATOPSIS Griseb. Plants resembling Tillandsiae in habit, also epi- 
d. Flow 
phytic, but inflorescence inconspicuously bracted. wers small and incon- 
spicuous: corolla white. Style short or wanting. Capsule die —About 10 
species, natives of tropieal and subtropical Ameriea.—All year.—AIR-PLANTS. 
Petals oa than the sepals: capsule slightly longer than 
the 1. C. Berteroniana. 
Petals ‘longer than the sepals: capsule fully twice as long as 
the sepals. 2. C. nutans. 
1. C. Berteroniana (Schult.) Mez. Plant 
yellow: blades of the basal 1 es nar- 
rowed to the apex: a m 
long: sepals 11-13 lon ns ee 
12-13 mm. long, ib ui. pointed. m 
mocks, S pen. Fla. and the E s 
(W. I.) 
2. C. nutans Br Griseb. Plant green: 
blades of the basal leaves rather ab- 
ruptly samowed. TUM lon ps slender tips: 
bracts 4—5 long: sepals 5-6 mm. 
long: eid. 11-13 mm. long, attenuate. 
a cks, S pen. Fla.—(W. LI. 
5. GUZMANNIA R. & P. Plants resembling species of Tillandsia, but 
with the blades of the basal leaves less attenuate, the sides above the dilated 
e abruptly 
and petals, partially united. Anthers 
coherent around the stigma. Capsule 
elongate —Five species, natives of trop- 
ical America. 
1. G. monostachya (L.) Rusby. eee 
tall: leaves bright-green 
recurvi i 
ut: brae as 
longer: calyx firm, 12-15 mm. long: 
ia oo oblong or an shorter than 
ube: 
capsule becoming 3-3.5 . long.—Hammocks, Everglade Keys, 
Fla ——(W. I., C. A., 8. 4. )— The for m with variegated leaves has been intro- 
uced into cultivation. The white corolla are in stro ong eontrast to the ver- 
milion bracts which, however, in age Dou. green striate 
ANANAS Ada — rg with stout scape-like stems. 
mainly basal: blades narrow and elongate, spiny-edged. Flowers in a 
terminal leafy-bracted spike, "i lower part of which, both ovaries and bracts, 
ripens into an rene juicy cone-like fruit.—Five or 6 species, natives of 
tropieal Americ 
