Plate 529. 

 TILLANDSIA LINDENII, var. MAJOR. 



This very beautiful plant, with its brilliant azure-blue flowers, 

 has been frequently exhibited during the past two seasons, and 

 has been universally admired. Mr. Williams, of Holloway, has 

 exhibited one variety of it (for, like many of the tropical intro- 

 ductions of late years, it is found to vary in the wild state) ; and 

 Mr. Veitch has lately exhibited another, larger in flower and 

 denser in foliage, and therefore well entitled to the addition we 

 have given to it. 



Mr. B. S. Williams, in his valuable volume on stove and 

 greenhouse-plants, says of this beautiful species, " that it bears 

 a handsome broad distichous scape, which is rosy-carmine, and 

 the flowers are azure-blue with a pure white eye ; it is a most 

 elegant plant, fit for table decoration or for ornamental vases, 

 native of the province Huancahanha, in Peru." We would 

 differ from this, as far as dinner-table decoration is concerned, 

 for no blue flower is effective at night, as the colour becomes 

 dull and bad. 



These plants require to be grown in spongy peat, with the 

 addition of loam and sand, and are easily increased by suckers ; 

 they can, of course, be increased by seeds also. We are in- 

 debted to Messrs. Veitch for the opportunity of figuring this 

 beautiful plant, which horticulturists owe, with so many 

 others, to the energy and enterprise of Mons. Linden, the well- 

 known director of the Jardin Zoologique of Brussels. 



