‘SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIER. 
Key to THe Sections or Tinuanpsia. 
* Leaves spaced-out on a long stem. 
1. Srrepsta.—Stems — filiform. Flowers solitary in the 
axils of the stem-leaves 
* Leaves eriuclled, rosulate, coriaceous, acuminate, densely lepidote. 
t Inflorescence distichous 
2. DiapHoranruema.—Leafy stem short. ive subterete. Flowers 
lor few. Style and stamens short. 
3. Payrarniza. — Leayes rosulate. Flowers pence or i 
Petal-bI blade broad, nding. Style and stamen 
4. Piarystacuys.—Leaves rosulate. Flowers spicate or Slash 
Petal-blade lingulate. Stamens and style longer than the 
calyx. 
tt Inflorescence multifarious. 
5. Anoptopnyrum.—Leaves rosulate, narrow, acuminate. Flowers 
spicate or panicle d. 
6. Piryropuyntum.—Leaves rosulate. Flowers in a capitulum in 
the centre of the rosette of leaves 
** Leaves rosulate, broader and thinner, obscurely lepidote. 
t — distichous. 
leaf. 
9. Vrresza.—Leaves broad, us ually lorate. Petals with two scales 
on the claw, large, white or yellow 
tt Inflorescence multifarious. 
10. CyarHorHora.—Differg from A/llardtia in inflorescence. 
11. Conostacuys.—Differs from Vriesea in inflorescence. 
Subgenus I. Srrepsia Nuttall). -- Stems pendulous, filiform, 
eaves spaced-out, filiform, pre es furfuraceous. Flowers 
small, usually solitary. Sty ‘le sh 
_ 1. T. usyzom: 
Veg. vii. 1199 ; Beer ey 51. Hook. ‘al. in Bot. Mag. 4 6809 ; 
E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1877, t. 17. — Stems filiform , flexuose, 
_ pendulous, reaching a length of 15-20 ft. Leaves distant, spreading, 
filiform, 1-3 in, long, clothed like the stem with silv very lepidote 
scales. Flowers ax xillary, genera lly solitary, sessile in the dilated 
ovate base of a leaf; bract ovate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx }in. 
long; sepals oblong-lan ceolate, naked, pale green, conspicuously 
striated. Petals yellow ; protruded ieee lingulate, 4-4 in. long. 
Le que as long as the calyx. Style short. Capsule about an 
Hab. eyite - Tropical America from Florida and Mexico 
to Chili and South Brazil. 7. trichoides H. B B. K. and T. crinita 
