Tas. 6495. 
TILLANDSIA MALZINEI. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. BroMELiacex.—Tribe TILLANDSIER. 
Genus Titnanpsta, Linn.; (Schulte’s Syst. Veg. vol. vii. p. Ixvi. and 1199.) 
Tittanps1a (Conostachys) Malzinei ; acaulis, foliis basalibus 15-20 dense rosulatis 
loratis falcatis chartaceis subpedalibus nullo modo lepidotis apice deltoideo- 
cuspidatis facie viridibus dorso rubro-brunneis verticaliter lineatis, pedunculo 
stricto erecto foliis breviori foliis reductis pluribus lanceolatis faleatis predito, 
floribus 12-20 in spicam strictam subdensam multifariam disposito, bracteis 
magnis glabris ovatis navicularibus luteis vel rubris, pedicellis brevibus crassis, 
calyce protruso glabro sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis lingulatis obtusis albidis 
calyce duplo longioribus ant squamatis, genitalibus petalis paulo brevioribus, 
antheris parvis luteis versatilibus. 
T. Malzinei, Baker in Kew Gard. Report, 1878, p. 59. 
Vriesea Malzinei, EZ. Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xxiv. (1874), p- 313, tab. 14. 
The present species represents the section Conostachys 
of the large genus Tillandsia, which is characterized by its 
scaled petals and multifarious spikes, and is the first species 
of that section which has been figured in the Boranicar 
Macazine. It was discovered about the year 1870 in the 
neighbourhood of Cordova, in Mexico, by the Belgian 
gentleman after whom it is named, M. Omer de Malzine, 
and was first flowered in cultivation by M. Jacob Makoy, 
of Liége, in 1872. The excellent figure in the Belgique 
Horticole above cited represents a variety with red bracts. 
In our plant, which flowered at Kew in April, 1879, the 
bracts are yellow. 
Descr. Acaulescent. Leaves fifteen or twenty in a dense 
rosette, lorate, about a foot long, three inches broad at the 
dilated base, an inch and a half or two inches at the middle, 
falcate, chartaceous in texture, not at all lepidote, the apex 
deltoid cuspidate, the face bright green, the back red- 
brown with fine vertical lines. Peduncle simple, rather 
shorter than the leaves, stiffly erect, with several faleate 
MAY Ist, 1880. 
