Tas. 8596. 
TILLANDSIA Regina. 
Brazil. 
BroMEuiaceak. Tribe TILLANDSIEAE. 
TituanpsiA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 669. 
Tillandsia Regina, Vell. Fl. Flum. vol. iii. t. 142, et in Arch. Mus, Nac. Rio, 
vol. v. p. 29; Baker, Handb. Bromel. p. 227, pro parte; species I. imperiali, 
C. H. Wright (Vriesiae imperiali, Mez) affinis, floribus distichis nec secundis 
differt. 
Herba majuscula, acaulis. Folia circiter 30 rosulatim disposita, e basi ovata 
lorata, acuminata, recurva, glauca, subtus dense minuteque lepidota, 
1-1-3 m. longa, 7-10 cm. lata. Pedwneulus 1 m. altus, bracteis apice 
recurvatis supra gradatim minoribus dense vestitus; panicula 1 m. alta; 
bracteae ad basin ramorum elliptico-ovatae, acuminatae, 9 cm. longae, 
3°5 cm. latae, marginibus roseo-tinctis ; bracteolae ovato-deltoideae, 
concavae, acutae, 4 cm. longae, 1°2 cm, latae. Sepala oblonga, obtusa, 
4 cm. longa, 5 mm. lata. Petala oblonga, obtusa, alba vel lutea, 8 cm. 
longa, 1 cm. lata; squamae basales 2 cm. longae, 5 mm. latae. Filamenta 
9 em. longa; antherae lineares. Ovariwm conicum.—Vriesia Regina, 
Antoine, Bromel. p. 12, tt. 9-10; Morren in Belg. Hort. 1874, p. 825; 
André in Ill. Hort. vol. xxii. 1875, p. 54; Gard. Chron. 1875, vol iii. 
p. 235, fig. 41; Wittm. in Gartenfl. 1891, p. 160, fig. 46-47; Mez in 
Mart. Flor. Bras. vol. iii. pars 8, p. 569, et in DC. Monogr. vol. ix. p. 615. 
V. Regina, var. Glazioviana, Wawra in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. vol, xxx. 
p. 218, ef in Itin. Princip. Coburg. p. 164. V. Glazioviana, Lem. in Ill. 
Hort. vol. xiv. 1867, t. 516, ef Misc. p. 43, fig. 2; Morren in Belg. Hort. 
1882, p. 385; Regel, Gartenfl. 1868, p. 168; Rev. Hort. Belg. 1903, p. 82. 
V. gigantea, Regel, Gartenfl. 1867, p. 885.—C. H. Wricur. 
The large Bromeliad here figured is a native of the 
forests in the provinces of Rio Janeiro and San Paulo in 
Southern Brazil and has been in cultivation in Europe 
for upwards of half a century. There are excellent 
figures of the plant published by Antoine from an 
example which flowered in the Hofburg Gardens at 
Vienna in 1874, while it has since then been figured 
several times, occasionally under synonyms other than 
the accepted name Tillandsia Regina, Vell. This variety 
of names has been due to the circumstance that the 
plant itself exhibits some degree of variation; its flowers 
may be white or yellow and sometimes change from the 
former to the latter colour during the flowering period. 
T. Regina has been in cultivation at Kew for many 
Frervary, 1915, : 
