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texture, 4 dm. long or less, the lower often as long as the flowering stems, 

 their bases 2-4 cm. wide, the upper similar, much smaller; spikes few or 

 several, rather loosely flowered, 7-12 cm. long; bracts pink, numerous, 1.5-2 

 em. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute; sepals lanceolate, rather shorter than the 

 bracts; petals blue, 2-3 cm. long; capsules linear-prismatic, about twice as 

 long as the bracts. 



On trees in coppices, Marsh Harbor, Abaco : Florida ; Cuba, Jamaica ; Mexico 

 to Colombia. YALEKZOELA'S WILD PIKE. 



4. Tillandsia fasciculata Sw. Prodr. 56. 1788. 



Plants usually clustered on trees, the flowering steins stout, 2-6 dm. long. 

 Leaves densely appressed-scurfy, lanceolate-attenuate, their bases 5 cm. wide 

 or less, the lower ones often as long as the flowering stems, the upper smaller; 

 spikes subdigitate, compressed, 5-15 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute, many- 

 flowered; bracts oblong, acute, appressed, rigid, 2-3 cm. long, red or reddish; 

 sepals lanceolate, about as long as the bracts; petals blue, nearly twice as long 

 as the sepals; capsules as long as the bracts or somewhat longer. 



On trees and shrubs, Great Bahama, Abaco, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera. 

 Cat Island, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, Inagua : Florida ; West Indies and 

 continental tropical America. CLUSTERED WILD PIKE. DOG-DBJNK-WATEH. Catesby, 

 2 : pi. 89. 



5. Tillandsia circinata Schl. Linnaea 18: 430. 1844. 



Tillandsia bulbosa Chapm. Fl. S. States 471. 1860. Not Hook. 1827. 



Plants usually clustered on trees or shrubs, 1-3 dm. high, densely silvery 

 scaly. Lowest leaves ovate, acute, 1.5-3 cm. long, the next with broadly ex- 

 panded bases 2-4 cm. wide, abruptly narrowed above into linear-attenuate, usually 

 recurved tips 2-8 cm. long; the upper ones similar, smaller; spikes 1-3, com- 

 pressed, 1-2 dm. long, rather dense; bracts oblong to lanceolate, little spread- 

 ing, 2-3 cm. long; sepals narrowly lanceolate, about 2 cm. long; petals blue, 

 2.5-3 em. long; capsules 2-3 times as long as the bracts. 



On trees and shrubs, Great Bahama, New Providence, Andros, Cat Island, Wat- 

 ling's, Fortune, Inagua, Mariguana, Caicos : Florida ; Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Mexico. 

 Erroneously called Wild Onion. SILVEIIY WILD PIKE. 



6. Tillandsia utriculata L. Sp. PI. 286. 1753. 



Plants solitary or clustered on trees or shrubs, large, sometimes 4 m. high. 

 Basal leaves numerous, densely appressed-scaly, 3-7 dm. long, lanceolate-atten- 

 uate with bases gradually expanded and 5-10 cm. wide, the lower ones of the 

 flowering stem similar, but smaller, the upper reduced to acute sheathing scales 

 2-4 cm. long; inflorescence usually much branched, the branches long, ascend- 

 ing or nearly erect; spikes few-flowered; bracts oblong, appressed, 1.5-3 cm. 

 long; sepals oblong, 2-2.5 cm. long; petals white or nearly white, shorter than 

 the stamens; capsules subcylindrie, 4-5 cm. long. 



On trees and shrubs, Great Bahama, Berry Islands, Andros, New Providence, 

 Exuma Chain, Cat Island, Crooked Island, Acklin's Island, Little Inagua, Inagua : 

 Florida ; Cuba to Anegada and Trinidad ; Jamaica ; continental tropical America. 

 SWOLLEN WILD PIKE. 



7. Tillandsia aloifolia Hook. Exot. Fl. pi. 205, 1826. 



Tillandsia flexuosa Lindl. Bot. Beg. pi. 749. 1823. Not Sw. 1788. 



Plants usually solitary on trees or shrubs, 3-10 dm. long, the flowering 

 stem much longer than the densely appressed-scurfy leaves. Lowest leaves 

 ovate, acute, 8 cm. long or less, the next lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, 10-20 

 em. long, 3-5 cm. wide near the base, those of the stem sheathing, acute, 2-5 



