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TILLANDSIyi* stricta. 

 Erect Tillandsiflr. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNTA. 



Nat. ord. Bromeliace^. 

 TILLANDSIA.—Suprt), vol. 2, fol. 105. 



T. stricta ; foliis canaliculato-subulatis pruinoso-canescentibus, spica multi- 

 flora terminali. Spreyig. syst. 2. 24. 



T. stricta. Bot. may. 1529. 



FoWa. recurva, pruinoso-lepidota, lanceolata, acuminata, convoluta, scajio 



longiora. Scapus strictus, minus lepidotus. Flores amcenc et intense 



ccerulei, bracteis magnis, ventricosis, oblongis, acutis; inferioribus cuspidatis. 



Petala apice ovata, acuta, patentia, bracteis mqualia. 



Native of Buenos Ayres and Brazil ; from the former of 

 which countries it was received by Peter Kendall, Esq., a 

 zealous cultivator of curious hothouse plants, who presented 

 it to the Horticultural Society. Our drawing was made in 

 the Chiswick Garden in March last. 



This is among the most beautiful of its tribe, and one 

 that is very easily cultivated. Mr. Kendall finds it succeed 

 remarkably well with the following treatment. In June 

 he takes it out of the stove, and suspends it from a wall in 

 the open air, where he leaves it without water, attention, or 

 protection, till the succeeding October ; thus creating a 

 sort of artificial winter. When the time for placing it 

 again in the stove arrives, it is found withered, discoloured, 

 and in appearance half dead : as soon, however, as it is 

 again submitted to heat and moisture, it recovers rapidly, 

 commences a new and vigorous growth, and in the course 

 of a few weeks loses all trace of its previous sufferings. 



Supra, vol. 14. fol. 1157. 



