A? : THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Tillandsia—continued. 
; SUB-GENUS V. ANOPLOPHYTUM, 
Flowers spicate or panicled. Leaves rosulate, narrow, acuminate. 
dianthoidea 
didisticha 
Gardneri 
geminiflora 
pulchra 
stricta 
SUB-GENUS VI. PiTYROPHYLLUM. 
Flowers in a capitulum in the centre of the rosette of leaves. 
brachycaulos 
ionantha 
SUB-GENUS VII. ALLARDTIA. 
Differs from Platystachys only in leaf. 
cyanea 
Roezlii 
virginalis 
SUB-GENUS VIII. WALLISIA. 
Differs from Phytarrhiza only in leaf. 
Hamaleana 
Lindeni 
umbellata 
SUB-GENUS IX. VRIESIA. 
Petals white or yellow, large, with two scales on the claw. 
broad, usually lorate. 
Spikes dense, simple. 
Barilleti 
Billbergiz 
carinata 
chrysostachys 
Duvaliana 
Leaves 
Spikes lax, simple. 
amethystina 
coralli. 
Spikes disposed in a panicle. 
prer 
Morreni 
Philippo-Coburgi 
regina 
reticulata 
roma yea 
tessellata ; 
SUB-GENUS X. CYATHOPHORA. 
Differs from Allardtia in the inflorescence. 
utriculata ae 
SUB-GENUS XI. CONOSTACHYS. 
Differs from Vriesia in the inflorescence. 
Malzinei 
Saundersii 
ae acaulis (stemless). A synonym of Cryptanthus acaulis. 
= T. amethystina (amethystine). /. yellow, 2sin. long, distichous, 
eae ‘dems hgn Aa recite A Kisat a rot the sepals ; 
_ anthers exserted; bracts greenish-yellow, small; e distichous, 
a the or Pare ; scape slender, ing the leaves, 
to l6in. long, lingulate, acuminate, shining- 
ee Brazil, 1884. are. 
Tillandsia—continued. 
l. numerous, imbricated, about 1ft. long, curved to one side, 
broad, sheathing, and very concave at base, becoming subulate 
above, dingy-green, whitish-scaly outside. West Indies and 
Central Mexico, 1824. Syns. T. setacea, of Hooker (B. M. 3275), 
= noake (B. H. 1879, 10-11), Phytarrhiza anceps (B. H. 1879, 
le. be 
T: folia (narrow-leaved). ji, blue ; sepals half as long as 
the erect petals ; bracts imbricate-distichous ; central spike ĝin., 
lateral ones liin. to 2in., long. August. /. linear from a subulate 
base, convolute, curved, about as long as, or longer than, the 
stem, lepidote. h. lft. to 2ft. West Indies, 1822. 
T. argentea (silvery). A garden synonym of T. Gardneri. 
T. argentea (silvery), of K. Koch. A synonym of T. tectorum. 
T. Balbisiana (Balbis’). /., sepals exceeding half the petals, all 
distinct; petals violet, erect, convolute, spathulate-linear, lin. 
long ; stigmas exserted ; bracts green, red, and yellow, imbricate- 
distichous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, ten lines long; spike 
compound, compressed ; lateral spikes three to eight, 2in. to 3in. 
long, appressed, alternate. l. lanceolate-linear from a subulate 
base, convolute, recurved, exceeded by the stem, lepidote. h. lit. 
to 14ft. West Indies, 1874. (B. H. 1879, 6-7.) 
T. Barilleti (Barillet-Dechamps’). fl. yellow; bracts yellowish- 
olive, very numerously spotted with dark blood-colour, di- 
stichous, clustered, conduplicate, navicular, equitant; spike 
simple, elongated, nen eed i Fag Raga a as long as the leaves. 
l. green. smooth-edged, l6in. to 20in. long, shortly acuminate, 
with the margins rolled in at the middle. 
1883. SyN. Vriesia Barilleti (B. H. 1883, 3). 
T. Billbergiz (Billbergia-like). /l. tricoloured (green, white, and 
red), sessile; corolla dilated. Z. resembling those of Billbergia, 
quite glabrous, rosulate, imbricate, dilated, amplexicaul at the 
base, very thin, slightly recurve l, oblong-ligulate, oblique, and 
very shortly and abruptly apiculate, sub-coriaceous, pale green, 
furfuraceous at the base outside. A. 10in. Mexico. 
. brachycaulos (short-stemmed). ji. purple, about twelve in a 
head, which is sessile amongst the leaves. J. linear, channelled, 
recurved, 6in. to Yin. long, red on the upper surface, greyish- 
green beneath, slightly scurfy. Central Mexico, 1878. A hand- 
some, dwarf species. (B. H, 1878, 11.) À 
T. brachystachys (short-spiked). A synonym of T. carinata. 
T. bryoides (Moss-like). ⁄l. three or four in a small, distichous 
spike; style and stamens short; scape capillary, 2in. long. 
l. small, lanceolate-subulate. Stems slender, branched. Sout 
Brazil, &c., 1880. A small, Moss-like plant. Syn. S. poly- 
trichoides, 
T. bulbosa (bulbous). fi., sepals distinct ; petals violet, white at 
the point, 14in. long, recurved at the summit, convolute spathulate- 
linear; bracts eight to nine lines long, imbricate-distichous ; 
spikes five to eight, sub-equal, approximate, spreading, 2in. to 3in. 
long. November. J. convolute-filiform, ,greenish, minutely 
lepidote ; rosulate ones dilated into the roundish sheaths of the 
bulbous stem-base, flexuous; uppermost ones exceeding the 
spikes. h. 8in. to 12in. West Indies, Buenos Ayres, &c., 1823. 
(H. E. F. 173.) Syn. T. paucifolia. T, eminens, T, erythræa, 
T. inanis, and T. pumila, are mere varieties of this species. 
T. Caput-Medusæ (Medusa’s Head). fl. six or seven to a 
spike; bracts green; spikes about four, forming a compound 
pania scape shorter than the leaves, clothed with elongated 
racts. Jl. tumid at base, forming a kind of bulb, lanceolate, 
thick, channelled, divaricate, arched, undulated, unequal, 
shining, silky-grey. Mexico, 1880. ; 
T. carinata . projecting łin. beyond the bracts ; 
sepals pale yellow, keeled ; pale yellow, twice as long as the 
De, pearly to the dark green tips; bracts green be- 
, scarlet below, 2in. long, closely imbricated, 
y much compressed ; spike 5in. long, broadly ovate, the 
rachis scarlet ; scape scarlet, 6in. long, stout, cylindric, the sheaths 
paint ciel tec om r 4in. to pin Jong, lin. to din, broad, 
i urved, pale green, strap- rom a 
dilated, sheathing base’ South Brazil, 1866. A era ngri iin 
ola” R. G. 1866, DOA ‘paittdcina brachystacinn (Br st, D), 
F. P. carinata (B. H. 1842, 10.12)" eee ene 
A ys (golden-spiked . yellow, regular; sepals 
free, lanceolate ; petals idnes, na a bracts yellow, 
conduplicate; spike simple, distichous, elliptic, elongated ; 
elongated, erect, bracteate. J. numerous, rosulate, lax, 
arched, coriaceous, short and broad, loriform, lingulate at base, 
of a pleasing green, but rosy and glaucescent beneath towards the 
base. Stem short. Andes of Peru, 1881. (B. M. 6906.) 
T. circinalis (crozier-like). A synonym of T. Duratii. 
T. circinata (crozier-like). A synonym of T. streptophylla. 
T. complanata (complanate). A synonym of 7. xiphostachys. 
Andes of Ecuador, 
T, corallina (coral-red).* fi. green, distant, refracted, each sub- 
tended by a long, i imson bract, the scape and rachis 
of the same colour ; large, with two scales 
on claw; spikes distichous. /. oblong-ligulate, blunt and 
apiculate, pa Minas Geraes, 1871. Syns. Encholirion 
corallinum (F. M. n. s. 116), Vriesia corallina (R. G. 1870, 671). 
