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are so entirely different from those of Connellia, that they cannot naturally be placed in 
the same genus. Possibly the fruit of Lindmania, which I have not seen, and the 
dorsifixed anthers may afford technical characters to distinguish the two genera, especi- 
ally if taken in conjunction with the difference in habit. 
CONNELLIA QuELCHIL, N. E. Brown. (Plate 14) Folia rosulata 14-5? poll. longa, 
angusta, convoluta, integra, basi tantum minute denticulata, supra tomentosa, subtus 
glabra, vel rare utrinque tomentosa, marginibus albo-tomentosis. Scapus simplex, 
multibracteatus. Bracteze imbricatee, glabra, nitidæ; inferiores steriles amplexi- 
caules, abrupte subulato-cuspidate; florigeræ elliptico-ovate, apiculate, valde 
concavee. Flores sub quaque bractea solitarii, pedicellati, speciosi, rosei.— Tillandsia 
stricta, var. ?, Baker, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. Boi. ii. (1887), p. 285. Puya 
Auguste, Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. ix. p. 487, partim, 
Leaves rosulate, 11-52 in. long, 2-43 lin. broad, linear, convolute-subulate, rather 
blunt, rigidly coriaceous, minutely denticulate at the base only, densely white-tomentose 
on the inner face and along the margins, usually glabrous on the convex back, rarely 
tomentose on both sides. Scape arising from the centre of the rosette, 2-5 in. long to 
the lowest flower of the 2-34 in. long raceme, 1-12 lin. thick, glabrous, clothed with 
imbricating bracts, which are $-1j in. long, 6-8 lin. broad, stem-clasping, broadly 
elliptic-oblong and abruptly contracted into a subulate leafy point at the apex, or broadly 
ovate and simply acute or acuminate, glabrous, with tomentose margins to the leafy point, 
brown in the dried state, shining. Raceme moderately dense, 11-12 in. diam., 7-13- 
flowered, its bracts ascending or somewhat spreading, 7-10 lin. long, 5-7 lin. broad, 
elliptic-ovate, acute or obtuse and apiculate, deeply concave, glabrous, brown, shining. 
Flowers solitary under each bract, pedicellate. Pedicels 2-8 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 
free, 5-51 lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, aeute, glabrous, light brown, with 
thin rose-pink margins.  Petals free, 9 lin. long, 5$ lin. broad, orbicular, obtuse, 
narrowed into a short broad claw at the base, glabrous, entire, without a scale at their 
base, bright rose-pink. Stamens about 3 lin. long, glabrous; filaments very shortly 
adnate to the petals at their base, filiform ; anthers i lin. long, oblong, obtuse. Ovary 
superior, trigonous-ovoid, glabrous, narrowed into a glabrous style 33 lin. long, with 3. 
recurving compressed linear stigmas about 1 lin. long, slightly undulated along the 
stiematose surface. 
Bund of Mount Roraima, 8600 ft., m Thurn, 315; McConnell & Quelch, 107, 672. 
. In general appearance this plant bears a slight resemblance to Tillandsia stricta, Soland., 
but in all details is very different. It is considered by Mez to be identical with 
C. Auguste ; but although an undoubted congener of that plant, is most certainly very 
distinct from it specifically, being very much smaller in size, with the upper surface 
and margins of the leaves tomentose, solitary flowers under each bract, and a glabrous 
calyx; whilst C. Auguste has leaves 8-14 in. long, quite glabrous on both sides, the 
flowers are in clusters of 3-7 under each bract, and the calyx is thinly covered with short 
I have not seen ripe seeds of C. Quelchii, but the ovules show that they will be 
hairs. hat 
i ll worth cultivating. 
appendaged at each end It isa very pretty species and well wor ng. 
