64 BEOMELIACEAE. 



2. TILLANDSIA L. Sp. PL 286. 1753. 



Epiphytic plants with narrow entire leaves and white, yellow or purple 

 flowers. Sepals distinct and separate or very nearly so. Petals distinct. 

 Stamens hypogynous or the three inner ones inserted on the bases of the petals ; 

 filaments filiform; anthers linear or linear-oblong. Ovary superior; style sub- 

 ulate; stigmas short. Capsule septicidally 3-valved. Seeds erect, narrow, sup- 

 ported on a long funiculus which splits up into fine threads. [Dedicated to 

 Elias Tillands, Swedish (?) botanist of the seventeenth century.] About 350 

 species, natives of warm and tropical America. Type species: Tillandsia utric- 

 ulaia L. 



Flowering stems scape-like ; leaves setaceous-filiform. 1. T. 7-ecurvata. 



Flowering stems leafy, their leaves smaller than the basal ones. 

 Basal leaves about as long as the flowering stems, or longer. 



Leaf-bases strongly convex. 2. T. Balhisiana. 



Leaf-bases flat or nearly so. 



Leaves soft in texture : bracts ribbed. 3. T. Valenzuelana. 



Leaves firm and stiff ; bracts not ribbed. 4. T. fasciciilata. 



Basal leaves shorter than the flowering stems. 

 Bracts and flowers erect or appressed. 



Stem-leaves with long tips. 5. T. circinata. 



Stem-leaves reduced to clasping scales. 6. T. utriculata. 



Bracts and flowers spreading. 7. T. aloifoHa. 



1. Tillandsia recurvata L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 410. 1762. 



Stems clustered on the branches of trees or shrubs, sometimes on other 

 objects, even on telegraph wires, often forming large masses, the leaf-bearing 

 part 3-8 cm. long, terminated by a scape-like, 1-5-flowered (mostly 2-flowered), 

 very slender peduncle 5-12 cm. long. Leaves filiform-setaceous, about as long 

 as the peduncle or shorter, densely covered wdth soft, spreading scales, their 

 bases a little dilated; bracts lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, 

 acute, shorter than the bracts; petals blue, narrow, about as long as the bracts; 

 capsule linear, prismatic, 2-2.5 cm. long. 



On trees and shrubs, Andros, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Watling's Island, Great 

 Exuma, Acklin's Island, Inagua : — Florida ; West Indies and continental tropical 

 America. Theead-leaved Wild Pine. 



2. Tillandsia Balbisiana Schultes; K. & S. Syst. 7: 1212. 1830. 



Plants usually solitary on trees or shrubs, sometimes clustered. Leaves 

 densely appressed-scurfy, linear-attenuate from much dilated bases which 

 form a swollen cluster 2-6 dm. long, the lower ones often as long as the rather 

 slender flowering stems, sometimes longer; inflorescence narrow; spikes 3-8, 

 compressed, 5-10 cm. long, the flowers rather close together; bracts oblong: 

 lanceolate, acute, 1.5-2 cm. long; sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, about as 

 long as the bracts; petals blue, 4-5 cm. long; capsule subcylindric, about twice 

 as long as the bracts. 



On shrubs and low trees, in coppices and scrub-lands, Great Bahama, Abaco, 

 Andros, New Providence, Crooked Island, Inagua, Caicos : — Florida ; Cuba ; His- 

 paniola : .Jamaica ; Central America. Balbis' Wild Pine. Cuttlefish. 



Referred to T. polystaehya L., in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 441, as determined 

 by Prof. Wittmack, but that species is not definitely known to us from the 

 archipelago, although also recorded by Schoepf as observed by him in 1784. 



3. Tillandsia Valenzuelana A. Eich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 267. 1850. 



Plants usually clustered on trees or shrubs, densely appressed-scurfy. 

 Leaves narrowly lanceolate, gradually attenuate from near the base, soft in 



