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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. Yalenzuela's Wild Pine. 



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



Plants usually clustered on trees, the flowering stems 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 em. 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 Pine. Dog-drink-water. Catesby, 

 2 : pi. 89. 



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



Tillandsia bulbosa Chapm. PL 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 cm. 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. Silvehy Wild Pine. 



6. Tillandsia utriculata L. Sp. PL 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 subcylindric, 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 Pine. 



> 7. Tillandsia aloifolia Hook. Exot. PI. pi. 205, 1826. 



Tillandsia flexuosa Lindl. Bot. Reg. 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 

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



