SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIE, 1738 
along the Andes from Columbia to Peru. It is one of the most 
widely-spread and best-known species of the order. G. maculata, 
graudis, and frag grans are garden forms. 
2. HROLEPIS A. Brong.; Planch. in Flore des Serres, 
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with or without a minute cusp, 1-14 in. long, 3—1 in. broad. 
Flowers as in G. tricolor. 
Hab. Eastern Cuba, 0. Wright479! Described by Brongniart 
from a plant from St. Jago, Cuba, gath ered by Linden, that 
color. 
é Devansayana KE. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1882, 113, t. 8-9. 
— Acaulescent ; tuft 2 ft. high, a a) in diameter Leaves about 
20 in a tuft, ensiform from an ovate base, rigidly erecto-patent, 
above 2 ft long, an inch broad at the middle, acute, channelled 
rolla-tube; sepals oblong, Corolla valle wish, Sbove an 
ark long; segments bles Porter en the cylindrical tube. 
Biciens half as long as the corolla-segmen 
uador ; Province of Sipe oaee ed by a Jacob- 
Ww rof. 
song Beer, Brom 
. G@. Buri dré in Rev. Hort. 1886, 324. Caraguata 
pitas Bika: in pai pOhien. 1884, ii. 616. Acaulescent. 
_50 in a rosette, linear from a large ovate base, firm in 
texture, acuminate, channelled down the face, glanceseent on the 
convex back, 5-6 in. long, $-4 im . broad at the base of the blade, 
2 in. at the clasping base. Pedunele 3-4 in. long, closely sheathed 
by erect reduced leaves. Flowers 4-12 ina dense distichous simple 
spike ; bracts broad ovate, compressed, striated, bright red, 
Hab. Eceu 
mann! First oud by Dr. Seemann i in 184 Ws 
from Messrs. Veitch in 1884, and it is in the Kew collection at the 
ong, 4 in. — the dil 
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