Tab. 6945. 

 TILLANDSIA JoNGfler. 



Native of Brazil. 



Xat. Ord. Bromeliace.e. — Tribe Tillandsieje. 

 Genus Tillandsia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Ilook.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. G69.) 



Tillandsia (Vriesea) Jonghei ; acMulis, foliis 30-50 dense rosnlatis Inratia recur- 

 vatis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibns vix lepidotis facie viridibus dorso pallide 

 viridibus deorsum bruimeo tinotis, pedunculo robusto subpedali foliis braetei- 

 formibus inultis parvis ovatis irnbricatis, floribus 12-20 mas;ni* hoiizontaliter 

 patulis in spieam disticbam dispositis, bracteis ovatis aeutis calyce viriduln 

 glutinoso distincte brevioribus, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis albidis branneo 

 tinctis calyce subduplo longioribus, staminibus petalis brevioribus alternis basi 

 squamis niagnis appendiculati*, stylo brevi, t'ructu calyce paulo longiori. 



Tillandsia Jonghei, K. Koch in Wochen. 1868, p. 91 ; E. Morten in BcJg. Hurt. 

 1874, p. 291, t. 12, 13. 



Encbolirion Jonghei, Libon ; K. Koch in Bcrl. All gem. Oartenzeit, 1857, p. 22. 



Vriesea Jonghei, JS. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1878, p. 257 ; Antoine, Jirom. p. 21, 

 t. 16. 



This has nothing whatever to do with the genus Enclto- 

 lirion of Martins, under which it and one or two of its 

 neighbours were originally published, and under which 

 they still usually appear in trade catalogues. Encholirion 

 is closely allied to Dychia, and has long hard leaves, like 

 those of a Bromelia, with spiny edges. It belongs really 

 to Vriesea, which in the Grenera Plantarum is classed as a 

 sub-genus of Tillandsia, from which it differs only by 

 having the petaloid stamens appendiculate with a pair of 

 scales at the base. By discoveries and introductions during 

 the last twenty years the number of species of Vriesea has 

 been largely increased, and now upwards of fifty are 

 known, most of which have been brought into cultivation. 

 The present plant was sent from Central Brazil to Belgium 

 by M. Libon in the year 1856. Our drawing was made 

 from a plant that flowered at Kew last winter, which was 

 purchased at the sale of the collections of the late Professor 

 Morren. 



Descr. Acaulescent. Leaves thirty to fifty in a dense 

 rosette, lorate, flexible, glabrous, a foot or a foot and a 

 july 1st, 1887. 



