172 SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEZ, 
Hab. Northern Peru, in the Province of Loreto. Introduced 
by ae First exhibited at Ghent in 1878. 
im Morrenrana E. oo in Belg. Hort. 1883, 46, t. 4-6. 
alle ey Peet Seis Hort. Linden. — Leaves about 30 in a dense 
rosette, lanesolute, tapering to the point, 3-34 ft. long, 2-21 in. 
in. broad at the middle, marked with fine copious transverse vermi- 
orm lines of red- hier cc cexies with peduncle 3-4 ft. long; 
bract-leaves me ovate, claret-purple. Panicle of about 5 dense 
oblong spikes; flower-bracts , red. Ca an inch long, 
ie cylindrical tube. Stamens — = the corolla-segments ; 
filaments filiform, longer than the 
ab. Peru or m Neonates the a leis not known. Intro- 
duced by Linden 
4, Guzmannia Ruiz & Pavon. 
eidally. Seeds numer rous, narrow, with a long funiculus breaking 
up into threads, — Acaulescent ‘swith leaves in a dense rosette. 
Inflorescence a simple multifarious or distichous faa with each 
flower subtended and nearly hid by a large scariose bra 
8 pikes ultifariou us rs é Sp. 1-38. 
Spikes distindiods pe OB eB. 
1. G. trIcoror Ruiz and Pay. Fl. Peruv. ii. 38, t. 261; Lodd. 
Bot. Cat. t. 462; Lindl. Collect.. Bot. fase. 2, t. 8; Hook. Exot. 
Flora, t. 163; & 8. Syst Veg. vii. 1231; Beer, Brom. 102; 
seb. Brit. West Ind. 598. =. 84 pil Beer, Brom. 103, 
Pourretia sympayganthera R, ce 2. epee élabala 
Lam. Ene. i. 617. 7. mono, beg a ee Sp. Plant. 410 (Plumier, 
Ic. 238, fig. 1). Rene enealmia a Wiis wens 7 — t. 63, 
—Acaulescent ; a 14 ft igh, 2 ft. diam. Leaves 12-20 in 
a rosette, e from eo ovate ae nieading: plain green, 
13 ft. long, ay in. broad at the mi iddle, 2-8 in. the base. 
Peduncle about a foot long; bract-leaves many, la sag erect, 
imbricated. Flowers many, arranged in a moderately dense multi- 
farious spike 14 ft. or mora long, above an inch in diameter ; bracts 
ssp ‘with own 1-1} in. long; lower green, striped 
h — upper prgh red. Calyx } in. long; seg- 
te. whiti 
tec shorter | ‘haat the corola-segmenis. Valves of the capsule 
inch lon 
<a Indies ra ah Cuba southward, and 
