SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEA. 211 
said “ Flores... .in unica specie cladogeni, ramulo simplicissimo 
“seeping after ‘« specie” add ‘‘ Adquatoriali-Americana.” It is 
uw at 
an innovation at r base of one 0 e two bracts adjacent 
the perianth.* are nearly alli Carringtoni, on the 
contrary, however short may be the female branch, the flower 1s 
invariably accompanied by an innovatio erfect perianth 
I have lately found a half-grown perianth on a Killarney specimen 
which may be thus described: ‘ Perianthium (juvenile) compresso- 
campanulatani, bilabiatum, labiis retusis.”’ The full-grown perianth 
is doubtless more elongate, but otherwise not sensibly different. 
SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEZ. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 177). 
6. Tittanps1a Linn. 
(Renealmia (Plumier) Linn. Gen. ed. i.). 
style filiform, long or short; stigmas short, not twisted. Capsule 
coriaceous, dp 3- valved, clavate or fusiform. Seeds narrow, 
crowded, erect, with a mucronate. appendage and ons — 
splitting up into fine threads. — Habit 
Sathoal to a single flower, or aeul sous oP or snicleds 
each flower subtended by ‘s persistent coriaceous bract. 
white, yellow, or red-violet. 
: * It is to be noted that the subfioral innovation in Radula, when it exists, 
is never so distinctly and conspicuously adnate to the adjacent bract as it is in 
Lejeunea. 
