AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
Tillandsia—continued. 
T. c. rosea (rosy). This differs from the type in its rose-tinted 
flowers. SYN. Encholirion roseum. 
T. cordobensis (Cordoba). A synonym of T. recurvata. 
T. crocata (saffron-yellow). fi. of a saffron-yellow colour, about 
tive in a short, elliptic, distichous spike ; scape elongated, slender, 
villous, nearly naked. J. distichous, long, linear-subulate, re- 
curved, covered with silky, white hairs. Stem undulated, 
branched. South Brazil, 1880. Syn. Phytarrhiza crocata. 
T. cyanea (blue). fl. blue, in a branching panicle from the 
centre of a rosette of strap-shaped, entire leaves. h. 2}ft., when 
in flower. Guatemala, 1852. Syns. Allardtia cyanea, Platy- 
stachys cyanea. 
T. dianthoidea (Dianthus-like). jl., corolla tubular, the tube 
cylindrical, the limb blue, spreading or reflexed ; bracts purplish- 
rose, ovate-lanceolate, acute, persistent; spike loose, six to ten- 
flowered. L eon ppt a the outer ones recurved, the inner ones 
erect or inflexed, coriaceous, rigid, triquetrous towards the apex, 
acute, entire, silky-glaucous. 
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Tillandsia—continued. 
T, Duvaliana (Duval’s). /l. yellow, green at apex ; bracts scarlet 
below, green above, conduplicate, keeled, beaked, equitant; spike 
simple, elongated-elliptic, about eighteen-flowered ; scape erect, 
about lft. high. J. membranous, short, lanceolate, green above, 
tinged with red beneath, the sheath broad. South Brazil, 1884. 
SYN. Vriesia Duvaliana (B. H. 1884, 7-8). 
T. eminens (eminent). A form of 7. bulbosa. 
T. ensiformis (sword-shaped). fl. of a reddish-yellow colour. ’ 
June. l. tongue-shaped, yellow-green, about 1ft. long, the edges 
entire. h. 14ft. Brazil. 
T. erubescens (blushing). A garden synonym of T, ionantha. 
T. erythrza (red). A form of T. bulbosa. 
T. fenestralis (fenestrate). f/i., sepals Iı ng, elliptic, convolute in 
a tube ; petals pale yellow, longer, very broad ; spike distichous, 
elongated ; scape erect, long, robust. l. coriaceous, about 12in. 
long, broad, arched, concave, pale, beautifully marked with 
pellucid reticulations in the upper half, rounded-mucronate at 
at base. Parana, 1875. Plant 
Stem nearly terete, simple, ascend- 
e ; ? 4 pex, slightly spotted with re 
ing, din. to Sin. long. Uruguay, &c., 1810. (R. G. 85.) SYN. PPOR. N pee oe : 
T. stricta, of Lapdiey (B. R. 1338). ae B.D). 6898.) Syn. Vriesia fenestralis (B H. 1884, 4-5; 
T. d. rosea (rosy). fl. white, issuing from rosy-pink bracts; T. filifolia (thread-leaved). fl. pale blue, small, cistichous, with 
; scape short. Jl. glaucous, lanceolate-subulate, recurved, chan- ea ; 
f nelled. 1861. Syns. T. recurvifolia (B. M. 5246), T. rosea te wenn sp aratan alike Eee re ee eee 
(B. R. 1357), late, filiform, spreading. Mexico, Vera Cruz, &c., 1871. A ve 
T. didisticha (twice-two-rowed). fl. white; spikes elliptic, 
forming a crowded, distichous panicle ; scape Mest mt arched, 
clothed with bracts. Z. thick and robust, disposed in a rosette, 
lanceolate, channelled, acuminate, cinereous. South Brazil, 1881. 
SYN. Anoplophytum didistichum. 
T. distachya (two-spiked). f., sepals jin. long, free to the base ; 
corolla white, more than twice as long as the calyx, the petals 
oblanceolate, with a long claw ; bracts green, oblong-lanceolate, 
about lin. long ; spikes two, distichous, six to twelve-flowered ; 
pr get dwarf, densely-tufted plant. Syn. P. staticif~ora (B. H. 
187], 12). 
T., flexuosa (flexuous). jl. rosy, distant; sepals lin. long ; petals 
` 2in. long, linear, spreading at the summit ; bracts rosy, p FA. cm 
spreading, oblong-lanceolate, bluntish ; spike with a few long, 
spreading branches, or simple. J. linear, acuminate, subulate at 
base, recurved, shorter than the stem, lepidote with minute scales 
or greenish, transversely zonate beneath. A. 1}ft. to 3ft. West 
Indies, &c., 1790. (B. R. 749.) Syns. T. aloif (H. E, F. 205), 
Scape erect, 6in. long, hidden by its linear, falcate leaves. 
l. twelve to fifteen in a sessile rosette, lanceolate, acuminate, 
about 1ft. long, the dilated base lin., the middle of the lamina 
T. tenuifolia (of Jacquin). 
T, Gardneri (Gardners). fl., sepals glabrous; petals pale 
urplish, small; spikes four to eight, short, distichous, pman a : 
breasts lepidote ; scape 2in. to 4in. high, densely sheathed with 
Hacar-anbulalh, lepidote leaves. Z. 6in. to 8in. long, flat in the 
lower part, narrowed from a }in,-broad base to a reflexing, subu- 
late, convolute point, everywhere densely covered with silvery 
scales. South Brazil, &c., 1879. Syns. T. argentea (of gardens), 
lophyt ined (B. H. 1881, 11). 
| geminiflora (twin-flowered), _/l. madder-coloured ; 
beet than the Mast the limb of which is reflexed ; filaments 
sigmoid towards the apex; bracts red, lanceolate, mucronate, 
rather longer than the sepals ; spike oblong, sub-com 3 
scape erect, clothed with red, n-ti , acuminate s ths. 
February. l. ovate-lanceolate, channelled, acuminate, the outer 
ones spreading-recurved. South Brazil, &c., 1840. SYNS. T 
rubida (B. R. 1842, 63), Anoplophytum geminiflorum (B. H. 1880, 
11). : 
żin., broad, the face pale green, concave, glabrous upwards, thinly 
lepidote towards the base, the convex back thinly lepidote 
throughout. A. lft. British Honduras, 1879. 
2 eot hb d 
T. gigantea (gigantic). A form of T. regina. 
T, gladioliflora (Gladiolus-flowered). jl. greenish-violet ; ke 
5 simple; bracts Pisin closely imbricated. J. broadly 1 
abruptly acuminate, glabrous. Costa Rica, 1863. 
ucophylia (glaucous-leaved).* /l., sepals greenish-white ; 
eaa urple, ps di white at apex, conyolute, erect ; filaments 
ded with purple: lower bracts red, the rest green om with 
yellow and red; spikes four or five, Yin. long ; scape lft. or 
more long. August. l. imbricated round a rather tumid base, 
+ spreading, recurved, lft. to 14ft. long, padua y tapering from 
a broad and rather concave base to a slender point, kub-farinose 
or flocculose. Santa Marta, 1847. Syn. Vriesia glaucophylla 
(B. M. 4415; F. d. S. 452). 
L geane slender). fl. remote, sessile, distichous ; 
Fej ong, slighty dilated and scarcely spreading at as e 
reddish at , greenish towards the apex Poe , erect, 
the branches erecto-patent, five to. eight-flowered, so. ” Pg 
long ; scape 2ft. to 2}ft. high, J. entire, of a pleasing g 
. ; semi-amplexicaul at base, attenuated 
v tain ny rigen Southern Brazil, 1886, SYN. 
towards the acute apex. Forests o 
Vriesia gracilis (R. G. 1886, p. 163). 
utta tted). . numerous, distichous, approximate ; 
pn oa p sa Ah coddiah roarka, ciple tals 
duplicate, nearly equalling the calyx, farinose; spike simple, 
cronate, olivaceous, richly spotted and blotch 
minora South Brasil, 1875. SYN. 
-3; I. H. n. s. 200). : i 
, Hamaleana (Hamale’s).* fl. sessile, bifarious, ; 
ee enna Cirp i of petals white, A pon 
felled, the limb beautiful violet, snow-white at base, rhomboid- 
dilated, prading l, obcordate ; bracts green one , 
T. Duratii (Durati’s), f. violet; panicle compact, Sin. to fin. | — lepidote, conduplicate; spite compo Pe the litters dish bracts, 
long, composed of several dense, iow-Rowerod anien; scape 6in. ear ct, ag hg stipend arcuate ‘efexed, fwd 
: hannell sre circinate ipper 0 erect, linea cinate-revolt ape: 
tapering A E A A A p Med, more or less cir ate n reget ee r, iaae, Teg ses ere a as 
Fig. ST. TES ~ nae i Sg yea = Pees i Syns, Phytarrhiza Hamaleana, Wallisia Hamaleana, 
Fig. 37. Tittanpsia DuRatu, showing Habit and detached 
_ Inflorescence. 
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