898 MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. GUZMANIA. 
64. G. Rœzlii. 
** Bracteolæ florigeræ inferiores saltem valde carinatæ. 
Am. centr. : 
65. G. Scherzeriana. 
&. Sepala basin usque libera. Antill. 
* Spicæ il v. suberectæ ; inflorescentia pareo 
. G. Plumieri. 
Spicæ SE inflorescentia bipinnatim panniculata : 
. G. Faweettii. 
** 
A. — SUBGENUS MASSANGEA, Morr. l. c. (Gen.). 
Inflorescentia simplicissima; cujusque bractec in axilla flos uni- 
cus; calyx corollinus, petala superans. 
1. G. musaica; foliis supra glabris subtus lepidoto-punctulatis ; 
scapo manifesto ; inflorescentia simplicissima, perdense depresseque i 
subglobosa; bracteis coriaceis, quam sepala subduplo brevioribus ; flo- i 
ribus in bractearum axillis solitariis; sepalis corollinis, petala super- 
antibus; petalis albis. — Tillandsia musaica Linden in Cat. Expos. 
Gand. 1873; André in Ill. Hortic. 1813, p. 171 et 1875, p. 101; T. Moore 
in Flor. et Pom. 1873, p. 45 (c. xylogr.); The Garden 1873, p. 97 
(e. xyl.). — T. mosaica Gard. Chron. 1874, p. 79 (sphalm.). — Bill- 
bergia musaica Regel in Gartenfl. 1874, p. 378 c. xyl. — Vriesea mu- 
saica Cogn. et March in Dal. Pl. ornament. II, t. 39. — Caraguata | 
musaica André in Ill. Hortic. 1877, p. 27, t. 268; Bak. in Bot. Mag. 
t. 6675 et Brom. p. 149. — Massangea musaica Morr. in Belg. hortic. 
1877, p. 59, 199, t. 8-9. 
i. Terrestris vel rarius epiphyta (ex cl. MM acaulis, florifera ad 
e 0,5 m. alta. Folia 13-20 dense rosulata, omnia permanifeste arcuatim 
b - deeurvata, basi in vaginam conspicuam, ellipticam, densissime lepi- 
dibus castaneis punctulatam dilatata, optime lineara, 0,6-0,7 m. longa, 
10-80 mm. lata, apice optime rotundata acuminuloque parvo imposito 
aucta, supra minute solum, subtus pulcherrime lineis brunnescen- 
tibus, undulatis, interruptis irregulariterque sese conjungentibus 
separantibusque dense pieta. Scapus validiusculus, adscendens vel 
inclinatus, foliis multo brevior, dense vaginis e latissime elliptico bre- 
viter nunc brevissime lateque acuminatis, pulcherrime coloribus viri- 
dibus, roseis, rubenti-brunneis illustratis, stricte erectis internodia 
superantibus, imbricatis indutus. Inflorescentia subpauci-(usque ad 
25-)flora, folia subæquans, usque ad 70 mm. longa, 80 mm. diam.; | 
bracteis aurantiacis colore roseo striatis, latissime elliptico-obovalis, 
