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TILLANDSIJ* rosea. 

 Pink-headed Tillandsi«. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Bromeliace^e Jussieu. (^Lindley^s introduction to the 

 natural system of botany, p. 256.) 



TILLANDSIA.—Supn), vol. 2. fol. 105. 



T. rosea ; foliis ligulatis acuminatis furfuraceis palentibus, spica ovata soli- 

 taria foliis vix longiore, bracteis ovatis concavis. 



Our drawing of this undescribed species of Tillandsia 

 was made some years since, from a plant in the possession 

 of the Marchioness of Bath. It flowered in the month of 

 May, but having afforded only a single specimen, we had 

 not an opportunity of examining it in detail. It is, how- 

 ever, distinguished sufficiently by its ovate head of flowers 

 scarcely higher than the leaves, and bright pink bracteee. 



A native of Brazil. 



In the second edition of Sweet's Hortus Britmmicus, 

 which is just published, we find the names of five Tilland- 

 sias, with which we are unacquainted ; but this can scarcely 

 be one of them, as they are all stated to be natives of the 

 West Indies, and none of the names are applicable to the 

 species now represented. In the last Number of this pub- 

 lication we observed, in speaking of Mr. Loudon's Hortus 

 Britamiicus, that whatever inconvenience the public might 

 experience from the Linnean arrangement of that work, 

 would be remedied by consulting Mr. Sweet's Catalogue, 

 which is arranged upon the Natural System. At that time 

 we were not aware that the new Catalogue, by the same 

 author, to which we have just referred, was upon the eve of 



* Supra, vol. 14, fol. 1157. 



