SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIES, 117 
Hab. Chiriqui, Zahn. Discovered in 1870. Introduced into 
cultivation by caer Veitch. 
C.? cust& Benth. Gen. Plant. iii. 668. Hncholirion 
Ang = Schoubs in Bot. Zeit. 1846, col. 454; Verhand. Preuss. 
texture, 4 in. broad at the base, margined downward with minute 
deltoid prickles. Peduncle a foot se bract-leaves numerous, 
erect, linear-subulate, from a broad clasping base. Panicle dense, 
—4 in. long, composed of about a dozen short coxlguntad erecto- 
patent spikes, overtopped by the large ovate-acuminate navicular 
branch-bracts, the lowest of which is 2 in. long. Calyx } in. long; 
sepals oblong, obtuse, pubescent, free to the base. Corolla with a 
cylindrical tube as long as the calyx, and 3 orbicular dark purple 
segments as long as the tube. Stamens shorter than the corolla- 
segments. . vary immersed at the base. 
Hab. British Guiana, on Mount Roraima, Robt. Schomburgk 687, 
Richd. Schomburg 1021! have no doubt this will prove generi- 
cally di ct from Caraguata ; but at present the fruit is unknown n, 
so I abe it where Mr. Bentham has placed it. Probably it does 
not ne to eG at all. 
sehr musatca André in Ill. Hort. 1877, 27, t. 268; 
ie: in Bot. Haat 6675. Massangea musaica K. Morren in Belg. 
Hort. 1877, 50, 199, ‘ 8-9. — Leaves 15-20 in a sessile rosette, 
lorate, rather horny i in tex ae ee at the apex with a deltoid 
been abruptly falcate, 14-2 ft. long, 2~3 in. broad, banded copiously 
he back with transverse oa vermiform lines of red-brown on a 
s down 
Flowers about 20, aggregated in a globose head; bracts deltoid, 
red, about an inch long. Calyx horny, orange, with a white tip, 
1-11 in. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla shorter than the calyx, 
white ; segments oblong, as long as the tube. Stamens shorter 
than a corolla-segments ; filaments very oe 
New Granada; Province of Ocana, alt. 3000 ft.; dis- 
ed by Wallis in 1857. Was spread widely in gardens before it 
flowered, under the names of eerste, Tillandsia, and Vriesea 
musaica, 
-8. ScutumBerceRIA HE. Morren. 
Sepals erect, imbricated, shortly connate at the base. Corolla 
gamopetalous; tube cylin drical; segments lingutate. tiers 
inserted at the throat of the corolla-tube ; filaments slender, longer 
than the free anthers. Pistil, . avd ¢ eeds as in € d 
Tillandsia.— Acaulescent, with leaves in a dense rosette. res- 
cence copiously anicled. Very odie Caraguata, from which it 
differs mainly By its ir Ting corolla-segments and longer spreading 
slender filamen 
Leaves plain green . ae : es - Sp. 1. 
Leaves a8 vocals slender brown transverse lines. Sp. 2-3. 
