SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIER. 218 
Herb. Willd., both kept up as distinct species by Beer, appear to be 
mere forms of usneotdes. 
Subgenus II. D:apHorantnaema (Beer).— Leaves spread over a 
short stem, subulate, densely lepidote. Peduncle leafless or 
obscurely bractea ate, sometimes 0. Flowers 1 or few. Petals 
violet, not scaled on the claw. Stamens and style short. 
I have nothing material to add to the synopsis of the species of 
robuerras I gave in the ‘ pea of Botany’ for 1878, pp. 236 
0 241. They are as follows: 
Dwarf species with leaves not more than 4-3 in. long. 
2. T. bryoides Griseb.; Baker /. c. 236. — Parana, ees pier 
and Argentine territory. I cannot, by the description 
hls ytrichoides HK, oe in Belg. Hort. 1880, 240, vollected in one 9 
Brazil by Glazio 
ul srdolidois Baker J. c. 287.—Andes of Bolivia. 
4. T. pusilla Gillies; Baker l. ec. 287.—Mendoza 
5. T. propingua C. Gay : Baker l.c. 237; Hieron. Fl. Cordob. 
t. 8, figs. 2-4.—Chili, Bolivia, and Argentine territory. 
6. T. rectangula Baker l.c. 288. —Argentine territory. 
Leaves 1-2 in. long. 
7. T. capillaris R. & P.; Baker l. c. 238. — Peru, Bolivia, and 
Argentine territory. 
. T. retorta Griseb.; Baker l. ¢. 288.—Argentine territory. 
9. T. erecta Gillies ; Baker l. c. 239. —Argentine territory. 
10. T. Gilliesii Baker 1. c. 240.—Argentine territory 
11. T. undulata Baker 1. c. 240. — Par: araguay. Penis lately 
from Dr. Glaziou as No. 13241. 
Leaves 2-8 in. or more long. 
12. T. recurvata Linn. ; Baker 1. c. 239. — Throughout Tropical 
Chili. 
Lin 
America from Florida and Mexico to Buenos Ayres and 
I do not think 7. cordobensis — ron. Fl. Cordob. 10, t. 8, fig. 1, 
T. cespitosa Leconte in eee Lyc. New York, 1826, ii. 129, 
istin 
Southern United States,’ p. 471. It grows in large clusters in the 
soerE of trees in Eastern Florida. The peduncle is 4-5 in. long, 
ith adpressed small bract-leaves and 8-4 flowers in a patie ‘spike, 
with violet petals. The semiterete lepidote leaves are reddish, and 
se than the stem. Probably it is closely allied to T. doacheens 
 andicola Gillies; Baker /. c. 239.—-Argentine territory. 
T’. myosura Gri iseb.; Baker /. c. 240.—Argentine ‘iad and 
aaa of Bolivia 
16. T. fusea nd Bakes & e. 240.—Obragilla, 
