BROMELIACE^E. 655 



ish-white broadly linear spreading divisions; crown large, funnel-shaped, 

 one third as long as the divisions, variously toothed between the filaments. 

 Wet pine barrens, West Florida. May. 



H. Palmeri, Watson. Bulb small ; leaves very narrow (3" wide) ; 

 scape slender (8' -10' long), 1-flowered; tube of the perianth as long as the 

 narrow divisions ; crown tubular-funnel-shaped, sharply toothed between the 

 stamens. Biscayne Bay, South Florida (Palmer). 



H. humilis, Watson. Bulb larger ; leaves broader ; scape 1-flowered, 

 nearly as long as the leaves ; perianth greenish, the tube much shorter than 

 the narrow divisions ; crown broadly funnel-shaped (8" long), truncate 

 between the stamens. Indian River, South Florida (Palmer). 



AGAVE, L. 



A. rigida, Miller, var. Sisalana, Engelm. Caulescent; leaves (4-6 

 long) linear-lanceolate, unarmed, the terminal spine not decurrent ; scape 

 leafy -bracted (15 -20 high) ; panicle horizontal, the clustered flowers often 

 viviparous ; corolla funnel-shaped ; stamens and style exserted. Sandy 

 coast of South Florida. 



ORDER BROMELIACE.E. 



TILLANDSIA, L. 



T. Houzeavi, Morren (ined.). Scurfy (10' -20' high); leaves rather 

 tender, lanceolate-subulate, concave, spreading (8' -12' long), the upper ones 

 passing into the ob!ong acute bracts; stem mostly simple; spikes linear, 

 closely many -flowered ; capsule linear, thrice the length of the lanceolate 

 sepals ; petals pale blue. Shady river-banks, South Florida. October. 



T. flexuosa, Swartz. Scurfy (l-2 high) ; leaves rigid (1 long), very 

 broad and spirally imbricated below the middle, and crossed with lines of 

 gray and red, abruptly attenuate above, the upper ones oblong, acute ; stem 

 dark red, branching, the spikes flexuous, few-flowered ; capsule twice the 

 length of the bright red sepals ; petals pale red. Miami, South Florida 

 ( Garber). September - October. 



CATOPSIS, Griseb. 



Mostly like Tillandsia, but the stigmas nearly sessile, the stipe incurved, 

 and dissolved into flexuous hairs from the base, the pappus spreading from 

 the hilum, and the pendulous seed ending in a blunt coma. 



C. nutans, Griseb. Not scurfy; stem usually nodding (2-3 c> long); 

 leaves thin, smooth, ovate-lanceolate, attenuate, pale (10' -15' long); calyx 

 ovate, sessile on the flexuous branches of the simple panicle, longer than the 

 ovate bracts ; sepals oblong-oval, obtuse, enclosing the white spatulate 

 petals ; capsule ovate. (Tillandsia, Swartz., Pogospermum, Brongn.) Miami, 

 South Florida (Garber), mostly on low trees. 



