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Paulo, near Sautos, Burchell, 3150! 3288! Doubtk-ss tins is 

 TUlandsia unispicata, Veil. Fl. Fliim., iii. t. 134. [Hoploplujtam 

 unispicatum, Beer, Brom., 138.) Var. y. microdon, Baker. — Teeth 

 leaves minute. Flower-bracts firmer in texture, lanceolate-cuspi- 

 date, a quarter of an inch to one-third of an inch long. Sepals 

 furnished with a distinct cusp one-twelfth of an inch long, as in the 

 last variety. — South Brazil at Piio das Pedras, Burchell, 3617 ! 



55. M. AUEANTiACA, Baker. — Canistriun anrantiaciwi , E. Morren 

 in Belg. Hort., 1873, t. 15.- — ^Leaves ten to twelve to a rosette, with 

 a dilated base three inches broad and a lorate lamina one foot to 

 one foot and a half long, two inches broad at the middle, rounded 

 to a cusp at the tip, the teeth close and very minute. Scape nearly 

 as long as the leaves, hidden by its sheathing adpressed scariose 

 bract-leaves, the upper of which are crowded, erect and bright red, 

 and surround and overtop the head of the flowers. Flowers thu-ty 

 to one hundred in a dense head. Flower-bracts lanceolate- 

 acuminate, longer than the ovary. Flower an . inch and three- 

 quarters to two inches long. Sepals as long as the ovary, oblong, 

 obtuse, with a distinct cusp. Petals lingulate, orange-yellow, half 

 an inch longer than the sepals. — South* America ; the exact country 

 not known. Flowered with Prof. Morren at Liege for the first 

 time in 1867. 



56. M. viRiDis, leaker. — (Janistrum viride, E. Morren in Belg. 

 Hort., 1874, 376, t. 16. — Leaves twelve to fifteen in a rosette, 

 reaching a length of two to three feet, one inch to one mch and a 

 half broad at the middle, the bright green lorate obtuse cuspidate 

 lamina mottled with deeper green on both surfaces, the margin 

 closely minutely toothed. Scape about a foot long, its bract-leaves 

 large and lanceolate. Head globose, sixty- to eighty-flowered, 

 surrounded and overtopped by a whorl of large greenish deltoid 

 acute toothed bracts three to four inches long. Flower bracts 

 lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx with ovary one inch and 

 a half long. Sepals lanceolate, about as long as the ovary. Petals 

 oblong-spathulate, greenish. — South Brazil, . in the province of 

 Santa Catherina in an island of the bay of Paranagua, Platzman._ 

 Introduced into cultivation about 1870. 



[Besides aurantiaca and viridis, there are in the Kew Herbarium 

 specimens of two species of the section Canistrum, gathered 

 by Burchell near Sao Bento in the province of St. Paulo in 

 South Brazil, neither of which is complete enough to characterise 

 fuUy. 



3360. Tillandsia citrma, Burchell MSS., may not unlikely be 

 identical with T. cijathiformis, Veil., Fl. Flum., iii., t. 144 [Holien- 

 bergia cyatJdformis, Beer, Brom., 74). — Leaves above a foot long, 

 chartaceous, not horny in texture, with a dilated entire deltoid base 

 one inch and a half totv/o inches broad, and an ensiform lamina an 

 inch broad, minutely toothed, narrowed to the point. Scape 

 slender, nearly as long as the leaves, its clasping bract-leaves large 

 and lanceolate. Head surroundeded by a whorl of scariose mi- 

 nutely-toothed deltoid-acuminate bracts about two inches long. 



