Tas. 5229. 
TILLANDSIA puncHeE.ua. 
Delicate Tillandsia. 
Nat. Ord. Brometiacr®.—Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Perigonii liberi 6-partiti lacinie exteriores calycinz, eequales, basi 
cohzerentes, spiraliter convolutz, duo altius inter se connate, tertia minor, inte- 
riores petaloidez, inferne in tubulum convolute y. connatz, superne patentes, 
basi intus nude v., rarius squamose. Sfamina 6, hypogyna; filamenta linearia, 
alterna, seepius perigonii laciniis interioribus adherentia; anthere incumbentes, 
basi sagittato-emarginate. Ovarium liberum, triloculare. Ovula loculorum an- 
gulo centrali prope basin plura, biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus fili- 
formis ; stigma trifidum, lobis abbreviatis v. filiformibus aut apice dilatatis, rectis 
v. contortis. Capsula cartilaginea, linearia v. ovata, trilocularis, loculicido-tri- 
valvis ; valvis endocarpio mox soluto duplicatis, explanatis v. tortis. Semina 
plurima, e basi dissepimentorum erecta, lineari-clavata, stipitata, stipite pilis 
papposis cincto, testa dura; chalaza terminali mamillari. Zmébryo in basi albu- 
minis farinosi rectus, extremitate radiculari infera—Herbe in America tropica 
et extratropica calidiore indigene, ut plurimum pseudoparasitice, lepidote ; cau- 
libus foliolis simplicibus v. rarius ramosis ; floribus spicatis v. paniculatis, rarius 
solitariis, bracteatis. Endl. 
TILLANDsIA pulchella; acaulis cespitosa, foliis subulatis canaliculatis incano- 
lepidotis, scapo solitario folia eequante floribusque squamis imbricatis ob- 
longis convolutis intense roseis tectis, calycis laciniis oblongis erectis albis 
basi unitis, corolle albee petalis spathulatis stamina superantibus, filamentis 
medium versus insigniter crispato-flexuosis. 
TILLaNnpDs1a pulchella. Hook. Exot. Flora, t.134. Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. 
v. 7. p. 1207. 
Pourretia Surinamensis. Hort. Amstelod. 
We received living specimens of this pretty epiphyte lately 
from the Amsterdam Botanic Garden, under the name of Powr- 
retia Surinamensis, but it is unquestionably our Til/andsig¢ pul- 
chella of the ‘ Exotic Flora,’ and which was sixteen years ago re- 
ceived from Trinidad, and flowered in the Botanic Gardens at 
Glasgow. It appears to be a common epiphyte in the West 
Indies, and probably in tropical South America, where many 
species of the genus abound, clothing the trunks of trees in the 
same way as the epiphytal orchideous plants. We have received 
many kinds at Kew, and, either attached to pieces of wood or 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1861. 
