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wine red (‘¢ Gartenflora,” 1892, p. 1, pl. 1862, and illustrations in 
black). . 
A beautiful hybrid is 
13. Vriesea Pommer Escheana, Wittmack (Morreniana 9 x 
splendens ¢), raised by Kittel. It has inherited most from the mother, 
which itself is a hybrid (psittacma 2 x carniata ¢). As shown in 
“ Gartenflora,” 1892, p. 311, and “ Gartenflora,” 1893, p. 129, pl. 1388— 
it has the beautiful red bract leaves, without yellow tips, of the father, 
but, singular to state, the black cross-bandings on the leaves of the 
father, Vriesea splendens, are not inherited at all, which.also occurred 
with Vriesea fenestralis x splendens, raised by M. F. Duval at Versailles 
(“ Gartenflora,” 1893, p. 306). 
14. Vriesea Weyringeriana (Barilletii 9 x scalaris ¢) has the 
pendent inflorescence of the father, and also its red bract leaves, but 
there are brown spots thereon, as with the mother, and, most important 
point, the bract leaves are almost as close and as boat-shaped as in 
V. Barilletii (‘Gartenflora,”’ 1890, p. 7, with illustrations). It forms, 
therefore, to a certain extent, an exception. 
15. Vriesea Kitteliana, Wittm. (Barilletii 2 x Saundersii 7), has 
the character of the father, viz. the panicled inflorescence. The bearing 
leaves of the separate spikes are, however, larger and farther apart, which 
points to the mother. The bract leaves show all grades of transmission 
forms (‘‘ Gartenflora,’’ 1890, p. 326, with illustrations). This also is an 
exception, as is . 
16. Billbergia hybrida, ‘ Franz Antoine’ (Windii ¢ x Rohanié) 
(Wiener Illustrirte Garten-Zeitwng, No. 12, 1891, coloured plate). 
The crossing of hybrids gives very varied results. 
Vriesea Kitteliana 2 x Wittmackiana ¢ yielded from one and the 
same capsule three plants, which were similar to the father, V. Witt- 
mackiana, in having a simple beautiful red and gold coloured, darkly 
spotted spike; one, on the other hand, resembled the mother, which 
carries a red-green coloured panicle. From this second cross there has 
been no new middle product, but a reversion to the parents has set in 
(“ Gartenflora,’’ 1894, p. 201). 
In the following year seedlings from one and the same capsule 
bloomed again differently (see ‘‘ Gartenflora,” 1895, p. 555). Probably the 
characters were not yet sufficiently established in the hybrids which 
served as parents. 
17. Vriesea Petersiana, Wittm. (guttata? x Barilletii ¢), shows again 
clearly the influence of the mother in the habit: it has the spotted leaves 
and the somewhat bowed drooping inflorescence of guttata. It is true 
that guttata has a quite drooping panicle, but on the other hand our 
hybrid has from the father, V. Barilletii, the boat-shaped bract leaves and 
the thick spike-shaped inflorescence (‘ Gartenflora,” 1895, p. 456, with 
illustrations). 
18. Vriesea Sanderiana, Kittel (guttata 9 x Wittmackiana 3), has also 
the spotted leaves of the mother, but only a slightly drooping flower-spike ; 
the reddish-white colour of the bract leaves of guttata is transformed 
into a beautiful carmine-red, as is seen in Duval’s Vriesea rex (for V. rex 
see “ Gartenflora,”’ 1895, p. 20), clearly due to the father’s influence. The 
