54 _ SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEZE. 
Hab. Columbia; Alto de Armada, 1°15’ N. lat., alt. 4500 ft. 
André. Gathered in 1876. New Granada; pro vy. Antioquia ; St. 
José, alt. 8000 ft. in forest shade, Kalbreyer 1504; Gathered i in 
the year 1880. 
S. gramintrorta André in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxiv. 167. 
—Stems gen elongated, the thickness of a quill. Leaves 
ascending, er wded, linear, from a clasping ovate ade: the blade 
in the fully- tevelaped ones 6-8 in. long, dwindling subia gradually 
in those of the peduncle to less than an inch. Flowers 6- = 
dense capitulum ; bracts ovate or oblong, acute or cus vida te, in 
long. Calyx twice as ae as the bract; fhe cylindrical ; segments 
ovate, falcate, + in. 
Hab. Colambiag “hito de Armada, alt. 4500 ft., André 3402. 
Gathered in 1876. I am indebted to the kindness of M. Andre for 
carefal —— of his two type- species. 
2. Caracuata Lindl. 
gamopet: ous ; ’ seoments oblong, shorter than the tube. Stamens 
short. 
Ovary free, 3-celled; style long; stigmas linear, twisted. Capsule 
triginous, coriaceous, dehiscing septicidally. Seeds numerous, nar- 
row, With a funiculus breaking up into fine threads.—Acaulescent, 
with leaves in a dense rosette. Inflorescence very various. 
Section Caracuata proper.—Corolla longer than the calyx. 
Inflorescence capitate . . Sp. 1-8. 
Inflorescence a simple spike . Sp. 4-7. 
Inflorescence a dense panicle . Sp. 8-11. 
Section Massancza.—Corolla shorter than the calyx . Sp. 12. 
1. C. tinevtata Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1068; Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 2, 1230; Beer, Brom. 77; ; Morren, 
Fuchsia, t. 4; Kerner, Hort. Semper, t. 274; Griseb. Fl. Brit. 
W. Ind. 598. C. latifolia Beer, Brom. 78. C. splendens and cardi- 
Jam. t. Pee re 30-40 j in a dense rosette, ‘Sante 1-14 ft 
long, o 14 in. broad at the middle, 2-3 in. at the ovate dilated 
base, thin i in texture, almost without lepidote scales, usually striped 
rtically with red- brown down the back. Peduncle 3-1 ft. long; 
bracts imbricated, erect, lower green, upper bright red. Flowers 
eee coriaceous, 13-2 in. long; pedicels short. Calyx under an 
ch long ; segments lalcccdate, not imbricated. Corolla yellowish 
ahaa, 13-2 in. long; mara short, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 
Hab. West cages Giri, Calan, and EKeuador. Three 
forms are figured by Plumier, Beer’s C. latifolia being founded on 
Plumier’s tab. 94. C. splendens Bouché, figured Flore des Serres, 
