Tab. 4288 . 
TILLANDSIA BULB os A ; var. picta. 
Bulbous Tillandsia ; coloured var. 
Nat. Ord. Bromeliace^.—Hexandria Monogynia. 
Gen. Cliar. Perigonii liberi sexpartiti hmnuB exteriores calycina, aequales basi co- 
haerentes spiraliter convolutse, duo altius inter se connatse, tertia minor, interiores 
petaloideas inferne in tubulum convolutae v. connatse, superne patentes, basi intus 
nudse v. rarius squamosse. Stamina 6, hypogyna; Jilamenta linearia, altema, 
saepius perigonii laciniis interioribus adhserentia; antJieroe incumbentes, basi 
sagittato-einarginatae. Ovarium liberum, triloculare. Ovula in loeulorum angulo 
centrali prope basin plura, biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis; 
stigma trifidum, lobis abbreviatis v. filiformibus aut apice cblatatis, rectis v, eon- 
tortis. Capsula cartilaginea, linearis v. ovata, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis, 
valvis endocarpio mox soluto duplicatis, explanatis v. tortis. Semina plurima e 
basi dissepimentorum erecta, lineari-clavata, stipitata, stipite pdis papposis cincto, 
testa dura, chalaza terminali mamillari. Embryo in basi albuntinis farinosi rectus, 
extremitate radiculari infera.—Herbae in America tropica et extra-tropica cali- 
diore indigence ; utplurimum pseudo-paradticce^ lepidotce, caulibus foliosis simplici- 
bus V. rarius raimds,jlonlnis spicatis v.paniculatis, rarius solitariis, bracteatis. Endl. 
Tillandsia bulbosa ; foliis (subpaucis) e basi latissima circa bulbum vaginata 
longe subulatis rigidis coriaceis tereti-convolutis, superioribus basi angus- 
tioribus (in /3. coloratis), spica ramosa bracteata bracteis ovatis distichis 
(saepe coloratis), petalis acuminatis purpureis brevioribus.staminibus exsertis, 
filamentis infra apicem dilatatis. 
Tillandsia bulbosa. Hook, in Exot. FI. 1 . 173. 
S-picta\ major, foliis superioribus bracteisque coccineis. (Tab. nostr. 4288.) 
Few persons, who have the opportunity of comparing this richly 
coloured plant with the figure above quoted, in the ‘ Exotic Flora,’ 
would at first sight perhaps consider them to represent the same 
species; yet, except that this is a better grown specimen, mth a 
more perfect spike, and that the upper leaves and bracteas are of 
a bright scarlet hue, tinged with yellow, I see no difference, and 
am bound to consider them the same. The original plant was 
transmitted from Trinidad, by the late Baron de Schack; our 
Garden is indebted for this splendid variety to the mission of 
Mr. Purdie, who sent healthy specimens from Jamaica, which on 
being simply suspended by a piece of wire, from the beam of a 
