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curved, Ma ie at both ends, 5—7-nerved, winged at the ends and 
upon o , and narrowly upon part of the other side. 
“Apolo, ee ft., March, 1902” (No. 2655). 
This species appears alnoce intermediate between Pitcairnia 
and Puya. Its capsules unquestionably split septicidally at 
first, but there is later a loculicidal separation, and many of its 
seeds are almost completely winged. 
Tillandsia Williamsii (Sect. Strepsia) sp. no 
Densely Seay stems densely fascicled, 5-7 cm. long, 
spreading; sheaths mm. long, completely clasping, aad 
ribbed, abruptly ek into the blades, whic 
long, 3 mm. wide, slightly wider at about the middle, they folded. 
long-acuminate; pedicels solitary, 8-12 mm. long, slender, straight, 
nearly glabrous, nerved; flowers not seen; bract sheathing the 
calyx, broadly ovate, strongly ee sepals ieee ae base 
of the fruit, unequal, the longest 5-6 . long, broadly ovate, 
obtuse, nerved; capsule 15-18 mm. ae “slightly broader above, 
the valves of exocarp yellow, separating from those o the 
purple endocarp, and exceeding them, short-rostrate; seeds oblong, 
eee very sma 
“On rock, Yura, 8400 ft., Aug. 11, 1901” (No. 2539). 
Tillandsia apoloensis sp. nov. 
Gray-tomentose, the inflorescence sub-glabrous; leaves radical 
lo m. broad at the base, thence tapering gradually 
and regularly to a long-attenuate, lightly involut i e 
margins incurved; bracts long-sheathing, strongly ribbed, decreas- 
ing gradually upward; scape about 3 dm. long, terminating in 8 
in my specimen) sessile, loosely capitate spikes about 3 or 4 cm. 
long and 5-6 mm. broad, the flowers distichous, closely imbricated; 
bracts 6-10 mm. long, strongly 7-11 costate, mostly obtuse, 
thick and rigid; sepals 1o-12 mm. long, very closely enrolling the 
flower; corolla 8 mm. long, the tube very short, the petals ovate, 
. broad, finely flabellately many-nerved; scales wanting; 
filaments very short and slender; anthers oblong, 2 mm. long; 
stigmas reaching to about the middle of the anthers; ovary about 
as long as the anthers or a little longer, at style half as long as 
the eines thick, sharply angled; fruit 
“Apolo, 4800 ft., Sept. 11, 1902” (vo. pen 
Catopsis gracilis sp. nov. 
Basal sheaths white-tomentose, decreasingly pilose above; 
leaves densely rosulate at the base, 4-8 cm. long, 8 . broad a 
little above the middle, narrowed phere above gradually 
attenuate, finely many nerved; bracts of the stem linear-attenuate; 
