‘Tas. 6882. 
TILLANDSIA (Vriesea) rriata. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Bromettacexz.—Tribe TInLANDSIER. 
Genus Tinnanpsta, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 669.) 
TILLANDSstA (Vriesea) inflata ; acaulis, foliis 15-20 dense rosulatis oblanceolatis 
.  cuspidatis basi dilatatis utrinque viridibus glabris, pedunculo brevi erecto 
foliis bracteiformibus imbricatis occulto, floribus 10-12 alternis in spicam 
densam disticham dispositis, bracteis magnis ovato-navicularibus imbricatis 
superioribus splendide rubris luteo marginatis infimis viridibus, pedicellis 
subnullis, sepalis lanceolatis pallide luteis bracteis paulo brevioribus, petalis 
oblanceolatis luteis apice patulis viridulis basi squamis 2 semiadnatis appendi- 
culatis, genitalibus exsertis, antheris linearibus leviter versatilibus, lobis 
stigmatosis orbicularibus patulis. 
Vriesea psittacina, var. Truffantiana, André in Journ. Soc. Nat. et Cent. Hort. 
France, 1881, p. 87. 
V. incurvata, Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xxxii. (1882), p.52, tab. 2, non Gaudich. 
V. inflata, Wawra Itin. Prin. Cob. vol. i. p. 161; Antoine Brom. p. 28, t. 18. 
V. carinata, var. inflata, Wawra in O6cster, Bot. Zeitschrift, vol. xxx. (1883), 
p. 184, 
This is one of the most showy of all the numerous 
Tillandsias of the subgenus Vriesea which have been 
brought into cultivation of late years. Of the older-known 
types it comes nearest to 7’. pstttacina, Hook. (Bor. Mac. 
tab. 2841), but here the flowers are so close that the large 
bright-coloured bracts overwrap one another. It is a 
native of the woody coast region of the southern half of 
Brazil. It was introduced into cultivation by M. Binot in 
1880, and was first flowered by M. Truffant at Versailles. 
Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered at Kew 
in December, 1885. Botanical science has lately sustained 
a heavy loss by the death within a short time of the two 
continental botanists who had specially devoted themselves 
to Bromeliacex, both of whom, as will be seen from the 
Se oeyny cited, had figured and described the present 
plant. 
Drsor. Acaulescent. Produced leaves about twenty, 
forming a dense rosette, oblanceolate from an ovate dilated 
JUNE lst, 1886. 
