SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEX. 175 
West Ind. 599, excl. syn.—Acaulescent. Leaves 8-12 in a rosette, 
lanceolate fois an ovate dilated base, 14 in. broad, 8-12 i in. long, 
narrowed gradually to an acute point, plain green, inconspicuously 
lepidote. Peduncle about a foot long; bract-leaves ae ec 
erect, greenish, imbricated. Spikes 10-20, arranged in ax 
panicle with slender ppc age the lower soraamitt 
flowers erecto-patent, lax, 12-15 to a spike; flower-bracts ovate, 
Hab. Gaba; Wr ight 674! Jamaica, At sar Purdie! St. ae 
Anderson! Dominica, Imray 219! St. Domingo, Bertero. 
dad, Fendler 817! British Guiana, Parker r Be nee: 971! 
specie 
ahnii, n. sp.—Leaves 15-18 in. long z, will oblong bases 
in. long, 2-8 in. broad, connivent in an “erect utriculus, the 
pis lanceolate, narrowed oradua y from the base to an acute 
point. Peduncle about as long as the leaves; bract-leaves many, 
wae wckselane, green, erect. anicle 8-9 in. long; branches 
umerous, ascending, the upper simple, the lower trifureate, sub- 
ended by large lanceolate bracts; spikes dense, at most an inch 
long, 10-15-fiowered ; flowers erecto-patent ; bracts ovate, 
rather 
whores than rie Satie: Calyx } in. inea ks sepals oblong, pe oe 
"Petals with a very small exserted bla 
Hab. Mexico, Hahn! Collected . the French Expedition 
to age in 1865-6. 
C. Fendleri, n. sp. — parviflora Griseb. in Gott. 
Nacht 1864, 16 mee ty only), non R. & P. Meese “eet 
in a @anes rosette, 6-8 in long, — fro ovate 
n. narr ally 
plain green, arcuate, sn — Peduncele erect, eS 
a foot long; bract-leaves small, entirely clasping, not imbricated. 
Panicle lax, oblong, 8-4 in. long; ie about 7, the side ones 
horizontally patent, 1-1} in. long; main-rachis flexuose; branch- 
bracts small, ovate, acute; flowers 5-7 to a spike, lax, erecto- 
patent; flower-bracts ovate, } im. long. Calyx } in. long; sepals 
oblong, obtuse. Petal-blade minute. Capsule ovoid, searcely 
calyx. 
Vensanelay Tovar, Fendler 1523! This is quite different 
m the Peruvian Tillandsia parviflora, which is a true Tillandsia 
of the sn Plat, ib 
gy sp. — Leaves above a foot long, lanceolate- 
acuminate tien a silated oblong base 14 in. diam., imperceptibly 
lepidote. Pedunele a foot long; bract-leaves lanceolate, adpressed, 
not imbricated. Panicle very lax, very cernuous, above a foot long; 
rachises flexuose ; gn numerous, spreading, the lower com- 
iS - braneh-brac s small, ae is lanceolate ; flowe: rs laxly di : 
sted erec mappese ze most 7 a spike ; Seacetnick ovate, 
