244 A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEZ. 
foot long; bract-leaves with long points. Panicle deltoid, 6-8 in. 
long; branches many, short, patent; lower compound; lower 
branch-bracts 3-4 in. long; spikes dense, i ie in. long, } in. broad; 
flower-bracts oblong-navicular, obtuse, } in. — Calyx reaching 
nearly to the tip of the bract. Petals not 
Ha exico; Province of Orizaba, Both 8076! 
58. T. Letporprass = in Linnea, xviii. 414; Hemsl. 
nt. Amer. iii. 321. — Leaves densely rosulate ; dilated base 
rou 
te, 14 in. broad; . 
Inflorescence panicled ; branch-bracts bright red, longer than the 
spikes; flower-bracts 4-3 in. long, pale violet towards the tip. 
Petals about an inch lon 
Hab. Southern Mexico; Barrancas, Liebold 180. Hacienda de 
la Laguna, Schiede. Known to me from the description onl 
. T. sTREPTOPHYLLA i i 
427. Vriesea streptophylla KR. Morren, Cat. 1878, 17. T. tortilis 
Brong. inedit., non Klotzsch. — Leaves in a dense rosette ; dilated 
base ovate, clasping, 2-8 in. long, 14 in. broad; blade lanceolate. 
acuminate, more or less spirally twisted, a foot long, 3-1 in 
low down, densely finely lepidote on both surfaces. Peduncle 6-9 in. 
long; bract-leaves crowded, with long free eS . twisted ee 
Panicle 6-9 in. long and broad ; spikes 6-12, dense, 3-4 in. lo ong, 
§-3 in. diam. ; flower-bracts ovate, acute, aawate lepidote, 8 $1 in 
long. “Calyx rather shorter than the bract. Petals 4-3 in. ‘longer 
than the calyx, bright violet, convolute in a cylindrical tube. Sta- 
mens and style 4 in. longer than the petals. Capsule 1-1} in. 
long; valves lance eolate, 
ca, Jenman ! ‘oat to Kew alive in 1879). We hav n im- 
perfect specimen of a closely aE species with naked etentine 
from tiene from Skinn 
. 'T. Lorewrarana Gri ie Pl. Lorentz. 223; Symb. Fl. Argent. 
ine: 332. — Leaves 12-20 in a dense rosette, lancediebwatiodell: 
rigidly coriaceous, 6-9 in. long, $ in. broad above the dilated base, 
urfac n i . 
densely finely lepidote on both surfaces. Peduncle 6-9 ng ; 
lower bract-leaves with ong free points. Spikes 3-5, forming a 
hort ; dense, ascending, 2-3 in long, $ in m wer- 
8. panicle, 
bracts oblong, acute, 2 in. long, glabrous. Calyx as long as the 
ia ract. Petal-blade white, oblong, 4 in. long. tir 1}-1} in. 
ong. 
Hab. Argentine sa < igi of Cordoba, Lorentz! Para- 
guay; Cerro San Tom ear Paraguari, Balansa 4744! 613! 
Allied to T. polystachya oa 
. parvispica, n. sp.— Leaves 20-830 in a rosette ; dilated 
base ovate, 2 in. long ; blade lanceolate-subulate, above a foot long, 
+ in. broad low down, rigidly coriaceous, densely finely persistently 
lepidote on both surfaces. Bedunde a foot long; bract-leaves much 
bricated, with long free points. Panicle very narrow, 4-5 in. 
