‘TILLANDSIA PSITTACINA. GAUDY-FLOWERED 
TinLanpsia. 
TevIsy sew 
Asa Se Ree® 
— Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat, Ord.—Bromeniac oe 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 3-partitus, inferus. Cor, 3-partita. Caps. 3-valvis. 
Semina pape. . Spr. é | 
‘Tintanps1a* psittacina ; foliis lineari-ligulatis integerrimis 
acutis nudis basi inflatis, spica simplici, rachi flexuosa 
lorata, floribus remotis, bractea longitudine floris 
colorata. 
Descr. An inhabitant of the trunks of trees. Leaves 
fine red, grooved on one side. Flowers.xemote, distichous, 
large. Bractea equal in length with the flower, or nearly 
so, broadly ovate, circumvolute upon the flower, its lower 
part of a bright-red, the rest deep yellow. Calyx of three 
: circumvolute 
* After T1L-Lanps, a professor of medicine at Abo, who wrote, in, 1683, a 
history of the plants of the neighbourhood of that city. 
