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Epiphyta!, acaulis, florifera usque ad 0,2 m. alta. Folia subtus 
arcte convergentia bulbum crassum, brunneum,epigaeum efformantia, 
basi in vaginam maximam, latissime cipia naturale badisns, niti- 
dam, utrinque dense immerseque minuti , US- 
que ad 60 mm. longam, 38 mm. latam dilatata, iekiina notittübiquhit va- 
ginà subduplo longiore, nonnunquam eam æquante lineari, haud ultra 
5 mm. lata, apicem tenuissimum versus persensim acuta, sicca saltem 
tota longitudine profunde canaliculata vel + involuta. Scapus gracil- 
limus, folia subæquans, erectus, vaginis nonnullis suborbicularibus, 
dissite lepidotis, auriculatim suberectis, quam internodia bene brevio- 
ribus auctus. Inflorescentia pauciflora, si simplex sueto + scorpiuro- 
curvata, usque ad. 70 mm. longa; bracteis florigeris suborbiculato- 
navicularibus, apiculatis. Flores + 15 mm. longi, subsessiles ; sepalis 
dorso adpresse lepidotis, apice obtusis obscureque mucronulatis, 
latere tecto in alam conspicuam dilatatis, + 12 mm. longis. Petala 
alle conglutinatim cohærentia, apice breviter suberecta. Stamina 
filamentis alte cum petalis coalitis. Ovarium subglobosum, subito in 
stylum contractum. 
Ecuador, prope Riobamba, alt. 3500 in. : André n. 4502, ad Loxa : 
Lehmann. (V. s. in herb. André., Berol., Kew.) — ' 
Obs. — Species precedenti nimis affinis. 
: 84. T. crispa; foliis dense utriculatim rosulatis, utrinque lepidibus 
parvis adpressisque obtectis, totis crispato-undulatis; inflorescentia 
foliis breviore, simplicissima bene disticha, subflabellata ; bracteis 
sepala præclare superantibus, dorso dense lepidotis; floribus erectis; 
sepalis liberis, valde asymmetricis. — Guzmania crispa Bak. in Journ. 
Bot. 1887, p. 173 et Brom. p. 153; Wittm. in Engl. Jahrb. XI, p. 62. 
Epiphyta (ex cl. Lehmann !), acaulis, florifera vix 0,1 m. alta. 
Folia 20-40, — in vagitam perconspicuam, ellipticam, dense lepi- 
obtectam dilatata, vix 0,1 m. longa, peranguste 
linearia, æg versus longe acuta, solemnissime Crispata, triste 
cinereo-virentia. Scapus adscendens vel curvatus, tenuis, foliis sub- 
duplo brevior, dense vaginis subiuflatis, chartaceis, dorso lepidibus 
peradpressis obtectis, ellipticis, inferioribus mediisque saltem in lami- 
nulam minutam, filiformem productis, internodia permanifeste super- 
antibus involutus. Inflorescentia pauci-(6-15)-flora, foliis brevior vel 
ea subæquans, ad 35 mm. longa, 44 mm. diam. metiens, circuitu 
sublinearis; rhachi lepidibus subadpressis brunneisque obtecta sub- 
tomentella, paullo undulata ; bracteis chartaceis, valde inflato-conca- 
vis, suborbicularibus, apice rotundatis, + 9 mm. longis. Flores 
