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tinge, Petal-limbs | convolute in a cylindrical tube 4} in. ‘yew 
Stamens and style not exserted. 
ab. Andes of Peru. Sent to Europe alive by Wallis in 
1865-6, and Roezl in 1872. 
64, T. pistacuya Baker in Gard. Chron. 1880, i. 200.—Leaves 
12-15 in a dense rosette; dilated base an inch broad; blade 
panna -acuminate, above a foot long, not convolute, 4 in. broad 
at the middle, rigidly coriaceous, thinly lepidote. Pedunele 4 ft. 
long; Jacke leaves with lon ne free linear Beane, oa dense, 
Honduras, Gabb! scribed from a living plant that 
ses at rate J ag 8 
prvaricata Benth. Bot. Sulphur, 174. — Leaves densely 
rosulate ; dilated noes ovate, 1 in. .; blade lanceolate-setaceous, 
a foot long, + in. broad low down, ri ) us, densel 
lepidote. Peduncle as long as the leaves; upper bract-leaves with 
all circinate linear free points. Panicl toid ong ; 
spikes about 8, sessile, 14-2 in. long, 4 , the side ones 
ss . in. 
spreading horizontally; branch-bracts small, ovate; flower-bracts 
ovate, } in. long. thinly lepidote. Calyx reaching nearly to the tip 
of the bract. Petals narrow, }in. long. Capsule-valves above an 
inch long, + in. broad. 
a olumbia, near Machala, with T. multiflora, Barclay! 
Sinclair! Collected in October, 1836. 
6. T. aravcopuytia Baker. Vriesea glaucophylla Hook. in Bot. 
Mag. t. 4415; Flore des Sures, t. 482. Platystachys glaucophylla 
Beer, Brom. 82.—Leaves densely rosulate ; ovate base 1 in . diam. ; 
blade lannenlste-setecoas, rigidly coriaceous, 1-1} in. long, + in. 
broad low down, convolute in the upper half, thinly persistently 
upper = Calyx naked, 1} in. long; sepals lanceolate. Petal- 
limbs ic kk lilae, caaeclebecs in a. aaa cal tube 2 in. long. Style 
and tee: ] than the p 
Ha cs ak a eae bare sa into cultivation by Purdie in 
57. T T. gymnobotrya, n. sp. — Leaves very numerous in a 
rosette ; dilated base ovate, it in. broad; blade lane eolate-acumi 
nate, 8-9 in . long, } in. broad low down, not rigid in texture, 
thinly seeuanbentte ‘lepidote on both surfaces. Peduncle under a 
