Tas. 7320. 
TILLANDSIA MIOROXIPHION, 
Native of Monte Video, 
Nat. Ord. Bromettacexz.—Tribe TILLANDSIEA. 
Genus Trttanpsta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 669.) 
Trtanpsta (Anoplophytum) microaiphion; caulibus brevibus strictis erectis 
dense foliosis, foliis linearibus strictis pallide viridibus lepidotis facie 
canaliculatis dorso rotundatis apice subpungentibus infimis patulis 
reliquis ascendentibus, spicis densis paucifloris, bracteis ovatis pallide 
rubris calyce brevioribus dorso valde convexis, sepalis oblongis pallidis 
cartilagineis, petalis violaceis lingulatis calyce sesqui-longioribus apice 
patulis, staminibus petalis multo brevioribus, pistillo staminibus equilongo, 
ovario ovoideo, stylo elongato apice stigmatoso tricuspidato. 
This is a new species of the large genus Tillandsia, 
belonging to the small subgenus Anoplophytum, which is 
characterized by its dwarf habit, long style, and few multi- 
farious flowers. Of this subgenus (i stricta, Soland (Bot. 
Mag. tab. 1529) 7. dianthoidea, Rossi, and T. pulchella, 
Hook. (Bot. Mag., Tab. 5229), have long been known in 
cultivation. The present plant is nearest 7’. stricta, from 
which it differs mainly by its shorter leaves. It was first 
found about 1890, during a short visit which he paid to 
Monte Video, by Monsieur Edouard André, who is so well 
known as an authority on Bromeliacex, and who has dis- 
covered and introduced into cultivation so many new 
Species. He sent a plant of it to the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
at the end of 1890, and it flowered for the first time in 
a stove in February, 1893. : 
Drscor. Stems short, tufted, erect, densely covered with 
leaves. Leaves linear, rigid, pale green, lepidote, about 
an inch long, deeply channelled down the face, rounded on 
the back, almost pungent at the apex, tg crowded, 
the lower spreading, the upper ascending. Inflorescence 
a dense terminal few-flowered spike; bracts ovate, pink, 
glabrous, longer than the calyx. Sepals oblong, whitish, 
Octoser Ist, 1893. 
