Tas. 8576. 
TILLANDSIA BENTHAMIANA, var. ANDRIEUXII. 
Central America. 
BromMEniackak. Tribe TILLANDSIEAE. 
Trntanpsta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 669; Baker,’ 
Handb. Bromel. p. 157; Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p, 633. 
Tillandsia Benthamiana, Klotzsch ex Beer, Bromel, p. 263, ex Baker, Journ, 
Bot. 1888, p. 15 et Handb. Bromel. p. 199, et ex Mez in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. vol. ix. p. 735: var. Andrieuxii, Mez l.c. p. 736; varietas a 
T. Benthamiana typica floribus minoribus, petalis purpureis, scapi vagina 
breviter acuta, bracteisque superioribus apice rotundatis apte distinguenda. 
Herba succulenta, subacaulis, epiphytica. Folia dense subrosulata, numerosa, 
e basi ovato-lanceolata sensim attenuata superne ensiformi-acuminata, 
15 cm. longa, basi 1°2 cm., supra basin 6 mm. lata, crassiora, subrigida, 
margine subincurva, superiora erecta vel adscendentia, inferiora recurva, 
utrinque papillis patentibus vesiculosis dense vestita. Scapus 7-15 cm. 
longus, foliis saepius brevior, raro folia subaequans; bracteae foliaceae 
congestae. Injlorescentia spicata; spica oblonga, 7 em. longa, 3°75 em. 
lata; bracteae florales ovatae, apice rotundatae, roseae, albo-lepidotae, 
2 cm. longae. Sepala ovata, acuta, 1 cm. longa. Petala oblanceolata, 
8 cm. longa, intense violacea, apice breviter recurva. Stamina minopere 
exserta; filamenta filiformia; antherae 3 mm. longae, luteae. Ovariwm 
conicum, glabrum; stylus staminibus aequilongus; stigmata brevia, laxe 
contorta.—C. H. Wricut. 
The Tillandsia here depicted was received at Kew in 
1912 from Mr. C. H. Lankester, Cachi, Costa Rica, along 
with a number of orchids collected in that country. It 
has been cultivated in a tropical] house, where it flowered 
in June, 1913, and admitted of the preparation of our 
plate. It thrives well under the treatment given to 
other small epiphytic species of the genus. The species 
of which our plant is a marked variety appears to be 
rather widely spread in Mexico and is described as having 
white sepals and greenish petals. The variety now 
figured was first met with by Mr: G. Andrieux at Chalco 
in Mexico, where it was epiphytic on a Quercus. T. Ben- 
thamiana is most nearly allied to 7. dianthoidea, Rossi, a 
species which is not uncommon in stove collections ; one 
form of the species has been figured at t. 5246 of this 
work as 7. recurvifolia, Hook. The two varieties of 7. 
SzeprempBer, 1914. 
