240 A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIES. 
rathez shorter than the bract. Corolla violet, cylindrical, 24-8 in. 
long. Stamens exserted. 
b. Jamaica, Masson! Wright! Purdie! Trinidad, Fendler 
882! Porto Rico, Sintenis 473! Central Mexico, Xalapa, &e., 
Schiede ag Bourgeau 2961; 8075! Hahn! 
48. T. sunzosa Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 173; Roem. et Schultes, 
Syst. ae vii. 1211; Sagra, Fl. Cub. iii. 266. Platystachys bulbosa 
Beer, Brom. 83. T. va variegata Schlecht. in Linnea, xviii. 4 
Wittm. in Berl. Gartenzeit. 1885, 193, fig. 44. — Leaves few, lly 
rosulate, with connivent ventricose ovate bases 1-2 in. long, a 
linear-convolute rigidly coriaceous thinly leidote curved or aes 
blade varying from 2-8 to 6-9 in. long. Pedunele short ; bract- 
leaves few, with long subulate free points. Spikes rarely single, 
usually several forming a congested panicle, dense, 1-2 in. long, 
in. diam. ; flower-bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4-3 in. long, 
Sabie or ‘analy lepidote. os reaching to the tip of the bract. 
Petals bright lilac, convolute in a tube, a n inch longer than the 
yx. Sensis longer than the prem "Gageule twice as long as 
Hab. Florida. Curtiss 2845! Cuba, Wright 8272! Jamaica, 
Purdie! ‘Trinidad, Fendler 823! 824! Guatem ala, Skinner! 
Mexico, Schiede. Pies nama, Hayes! Columbia, Cuming 1191! 
iteau! Amazon Valley, near Para, Spruce! Buenos Ayres, high 
up the Parana, Sullivan. The six plants (enliven erythraa, inanis, 
eminens, and pumila) named as — by ey in Paxton’s 
‘ Flower Garden,’ vol. i., p. 160, seem to be ie mere varieties of 
this species. The most s striking are ag sh ea (var. picta, Bot. Mag. 
t. 4288) with bright red leaf-bases and bran ch-bracts; and oo 
1. Capur-Mepusz E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1880, 90; 1881, 
227. — Leaves with a ventricose ovate dilated base and lanceolate- 
shorter than the leaves; bract-leaves elongated. Panicle comp ound; 
spikes about 4, narrow, about 7-flowered; flower- bracts green, 
lanceolate. 
ab. Mexico. Introduced into cultivation by M. Jacob- 
Makoy & Co., of Liege, in 1880. Differs from bulbosa by its densely 
lepidote leaves. 
. T. canescens Swartz, Prodr. 57; Ind. Oce ~~ 
Griseb. Fl. Brit. West Ind. 595; Roem. a ‘Schultes, rads: 
1216; Sagra, Fl. = ub. iii. 268.— Le aves in a dense rosette ; oO 
base 4-2 in. bro ; dala linear-acuminate, with enrolled edges, 
6-9 in. — 4-4 - broad low down, rigidly coriaceous, Lee 
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gener ally ‘shorter than the leaves ; eee tay with long linear free 
points. — 1-4, ercwded, few-flowered ; flower-bracts oblong- 
lanceolate, acute , thinly lepidote, a ieohangs Calyx as long as 
