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can hardly doubt that plants of P. Zizii from northern localities, 
where such leaves are seldom or never produced, would speedily 
necessary experiments to set this interesting question at rest, and 
would gladly undertake to grow any plants that may be sent to me, 
SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEA. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 55.) 
C. Osyana E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1865, 254, t. 16-17.— 
Dacca, Leaves about 30 in a rosette, lanceolate, pale green, 
ar 
to the point. Peduncle very short. Flowers in a dense globose 
obtuse, much shorter than the tube. Stamens half as long as the 
corolla-segments ; filaments short, flattened ; aithalde small, linear- 
oblong. 
b. Ecuador, discovered by Wallis in 1875. Flowered in 
cultivation, in 1885, by M. Jacob-Makoy & Co., of Liege, and 
exhibited . Antwerp. 
ortostacuya Griseb. in Gotting. Nachtrage, 1864, 21.— 
Loaves sTanecolate, acute, 14— ft. long. dun cle as long as the 
leaves. Spike dense, oblong, 4 in. long; bracts round-deltoid, 
ine e 
gments oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube clavate ; segments oblong, 
obtuse, half as long as the = be. Anthers oblong, the alternate 
ones longer than the filamen 
Hab. Mountains of Veneta, ae 4000 ft., - Fendler 2167. 
. C. Furstrenserciana Kirch. et Wittm. in Berlin Gartenzeit. 
1883, 299, with a coloured figure. FE eaales cent. Leaves about 15 
in a rosette, lanceolate, 12-16 in. long, without spots or s ee 
Peduncle much shorter than the leaves; its bract-leaves bina ay 
short, ascending, lower green, upper bright red. Inflorescence a 
vol simple spike; bracts ovate, acute, red. Calyx vautrioges 
segments lanceolate. Corolla whitish, 1} in. long; iene much 
shorter than the tube. Stamens much “sh orter than the corolla- 
Segments ; fil ts very short, 
cieah Kaden” of Heasdae a discovered by Roezl. Flowered 
in the collection of Prince ee energy at Donauschingen in 
1888. 
6. C. Berreronmana R. & S. Syst. Veg. vii. 1229. Devillea 
speciosa Bertero MSS. Leaves. lanceolate-acuminate, q 
=. 12-16 in. long, 1} in. broad. above the base. 
is ong as the leaves ; bract-leaves many, lanceolate 
