286 A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEX. 
Leaves lanceolate-setaceous, 8-9 in. long, an inch broad at the 
clasping base, rigidly coriaceous, densely persistently lepidote. 
Peduncle a foot long; bract-leaves distant, with long free setaceous 
oints. Panel of about 4 ascending moderately lax spikes 2-24 in 
long ; r-bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, 2-1 in. long, the lowér 
fepeioks 2 ales a little shorter than the bract. Petal-limb small, 
Peruvian Andes, near Huanaco, Haenke. Nearly allied 
to T. purpurea R. & P. 
28. T. purpurea Ruiz et Pavon FI. Peruv. iii. 41, t. 2704; 
Roem. et Schultes Syst. vii. 1219; Griseb. Sym. Fl. Argent. 1878, 
882. Platystachys purpurea Beer ‘Bran 265. Phytarhiza purpurea 
with setaceous free points. aire of numerous publax erecto- 
patent spikes 1-3 in. long - branch-bracts small, ovate; flowers 
erecto-patent, 8-15 t ope rachis slender, flexuose; flower- 
bracts shloneilstecu glabrous, Zin. long. Calyx reaching to 
the tip of the bract. Petal-limb violet, eae cuneate, } in. long. 
Hab. eru; abundant about _ a, &c., Pavon! Nation! 
Lorentz. A plant collected by the Am erican Expedition 
under — Wilkes at Obragilla is ae a dwarf een with only 
29. T. M ~~ sii, n. sp. — Leaves lanceolate-setaceous, 4 ft. 
ensely percents argenteo-lepidote on oth surfac es. Peduncle 
with lon 
int ; 
lepidote, $-} in. long. Calyx see fete aging he bract. Petal- 
limb violet, obovate-cuneate, 4 in. long and broad. Stamens not 
cal 
longer than the 
Peru vian Andes, on rocks at Tarma and Obragilla, 
Mathews 651! 
Subgenus IV. Puarysracuys (Beer, non K. Koch).—Leaves densely 
rosulate, firm in texture, usually persistently lepidote, narrowe 
gradually into along subulate point. Spikes distichous, simple 
or panicled. Petals with a Codiale iste. not sealed on the 
claw, usually violet. §tyle and stamens elonga e 
Key. 
_ Spikes very dense. 
Spikes simple 
Spikes panicled 
Dwarf species under a foot ee . Sp. 48-50. 
f Tall species over boty foot high . Sp. 51-78. 
Spikes moderately d 
Spikes si pa 
Spikes panicled 
Sp. 80-42. 
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= ‘ ‘ . Sp. 79-89. 
Sp. if 
