wild- HORTUS JAMAICENSIS lit 



Fiscum carwphylloiJes maximum, capitulis in summitate conglomcra- 

 tis. Sloane, v. 1, p. 189, t. 120. Media, parasitica, foliis oblongis 

 obtusis Jioribus comosis teroiinalibus. Browne, p. 194, T. 3. 

 Leaves lanceolate-tpngue-shaped, quite entire, ventricose at the base. 

 This grows on large trees, to which it fastens itself by many long dark brown threads, 

 making altogether an oblon'g root. The radical leaves are linear tongue-shaped, acu- 

 minate, shining, quite entire, a foot long, numerous, containing water. Culm Ieafyy 

 simple, erect, solitary, bearing conglomerate flowers at the top. Flowers yellow, in- 

 odorous, three inches" long, capsules brown. The leaves at the top of the culm are 

 many of them reddish, looking something like a rose. 



4. TENU1FOLIA. FINE-LEAVED. 



riscum caryophijiloid.es minus, foliorum imis viridibus, apicibus subru- 

 bicundis, flare tri-pelalo purpurco seinina filamtnloso. Sloane, 

 v. 1, p. 190, t 122, t. 1. Parasitica parva foliis lenuissimis erectis, 

 spica breviori shrtplici disticha. Browne, p. 194, T. 2. 



Spikes alternate-imbricate, flowers distich, leaves linear, filiform, erect, bristle- 

 shaped at the tip. 



Stem a foot high, simple, sheathed, leafy. Leaves often the length of the stem ; 

 the radical an I lo.ver ones sheathed at the base, above the base attenuated, keeled, con- 

 volute, rigid. Stem-leaves or sheathes closely surrounding the stem, terminated bya 

 verv long linear filiform apex. Spikes three or four, terminating, sessde, sub-distich, an 

 inch long, lanceolate. Spathes oblong, obtuse ; petals Mue. Sioane observes that the 

 leaves are very like those of pinks in shape, their under parts are green, and upper red- 

 dish. 



5. MOXOSTACHYA. ONE-SPIKED. 



Parasitica foliis majoribus oblusis ; spica assurgenti, divisa, squamosa. 

 Browne, p. 194, T. 0. 

 Leaves linear, channelled, reclined ; culm simple, imbricate, spike simple. 

 Browne calls this the larger Tillandsia with obtuse leaves. 



6. FASCICULATA. BUNDLED. 



Spikes lateral, distich, imbricate, leaves lanceolate-subulate, erect, strict. 

 Roots filiform, rigid ; stem simple, from one to two feet high, leafy ; leaves next the 

 root sheathing at the base, broad, concave ; towards the end lanceolate, convolute subu- 

 late, upright and straight, or a little recurved at the tip, pubescent on the outside ; 

 stem-leaves shorter, sub-imbricate, ovate, ending in a long awl-shaped point. Spikes 

 terminating and lateral, erect, alternate, ancipital, an inch wide, imbricate in two row's 

 with bractes or spathes, which are called glumes by Linneus, equitant, ovate-acuminate 

 membranaceous at the edge, smooth ; rachis three-sided : Flowers solitary, sessile be- 

 tween the spathes ; calvx tubular, three-cornered, or two keeled at the back, three- 

 parted at the end ; after the flower increases, it surrounds the capsule with two leaves 

 the superiorbifid and two-keeled, the inferior lanceolate and convex. Capsule oblong 

 acuminate, an inch long, three-cornered, three-celled, three- valved ; valves rigid, 

 black within ; seed-down capillary silky. Native of Jamaica on trees near the coast. 

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7. NUTANS. 



