3494 



VRIESIA 



VUYLSTEKEARA 



long) and recurved, brown-tipped, with many dark 

 green veins and cross veins: inn. a simple stout spike 

 1J^ ft. long and bearing green-spotted bracts: fls. pale 

 yellow. Brazil. B.M. 6898. I.H. 22:215. 



EBB. Lvs, marked with strong transverse bands. 



hieroglyphica, Morr. (Tillandsia hieroglyphica, Bull.). 

 Fig. 3970. Lvs. many, rosulate, stout, recurved, short- 

 acute, very strongly and irregularly marked and 

 banded with dark green above and brown-purple 

 beneath: infl. paniculate, the bracts broadly elliptic- 

 ovate, the fls. yellowish. Brazil. I.H. 31:514; 42, p. 

 318. R.H. 1891:400. Gn. 37, p. 244 (adapted in Fig. 

 3970). A very striking and showy plant. Sometimes 

 known as a Massangea. 



V. Bldkii, Hort. (Tillandsia Blokii, Hort.). Infl. crimson, pin- 

 nately paniculate, 4-5 ft. tall; floral bracts ovate: fls. in 2 rows, 4 

 in. long; petals yellow, linear, about 4 in. long. S. Amer. B.M. 

 8192. G.C. III. 45:358. V. fiUgida, Hort., has been catalogued in 

 this country. It is a garden hybrid (V. incurvata XV. Duyalii). It 

 has short green Ivs. and an exserted simple spike with distichous 

 bright red imbricated bracts. I.H. 35:67. V. glaucophylla. Hook., 

 is Tillandsia fasciculata. V. Leopoldi&na=V. splendens XV. 

 Malzinei. Gt. 54: 1539. V. musdica=Guzmannia. V. reglna, Ant. 

 Lvs. very long-acute: infl. large; bracts elliptic-ovate, rounded at 

 apex: fls. dirty yellow. Brazil. V. R tx. Hybrid. R.H. 1907:570. 



V. zebrina, Hort., is sometimes V. splendens and sometimes 

 Cryptanthus zonatus. T TT R 



VULNERARIA: AnthyUis. 



VUYLSTEKEARA, a multigeneric orchid hybrid 

 embracing Cochlioda, Miltonia, and Odontoglossum. 

 It bears the name of Charles Vuylsteke, of Ghent, 

 Belgium, and the name is conformable with Adamara, 

 Linneara, Lowiara, Wilsonara. Only two species or 

 species-forms (very recent) are recorded, the first of 

 which has been in doubt as to parentage. These are V. 

 insignis, Hort., recorded (G.C. III. 56:14) as a hybrid 

 of Miltonioda Blevana and Odontioda Charlesworthii, 

 bearing cream-white fls. with brownish spots; and V. 

 Hyeana, Hort., a hybrid between Odontonia Lairessex 

 and Cochlioda Noezliana, with fls. 2 in. across with a 

 cinnabar tint suffusing the greater part of the surface 

 of the sepals and petals after the color of C. Noezliana, 

 but with the form of fl. approaching 0. Lairessex 

 especially in the center of the labellum, which is white 

 tinged rose-color, and the base having a crest of 

 yellow ridges on a red ground in front of which is a 

 large shining brownish yellow raised blotch similar to 

 that in Miltonia Warscewiczii. 



3970. Vriesia hieroglyphica. 



