104 WINDOW AND PARLOR GARDENING 
Billbergia nutans is a handsome winter-flowering plant. 
Leaves long, strap-shaped, spiny, spreading. Flowers red and 
yellow, in long loose spikes, on slender nodding peduncles, 
bracts red. Grow in light, rich soil in pots. 
Bromelia Ananas variegata. Pine-apple with variegated 
leaves is a very handsome foliage-plant. The leaves are green, ~ 
with broad bands of white, suffused with crimson. Very valu- 
able for vases and as a common window plant. Fine for table 
decoration. Soil as for Billbergia. 
Massangea hieroglyphica is like an Achmea in appearance, 
with finely tessallated leaves, green with almost black, irregular 
bars. This is a very neat and attractive plant. 
FAM 
Tillandsta splendens. 
Tillandsia, to which genus the Florida air-plant and the 
Spanish moss belong, consists mainly of Epiphytes very dis- 
similar in appearance. ‘T. psittacina has short, strap-shaped, 
slightly curving foliage. Flowers in a short spike with scarlet 
