A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIE®. 808 
_ will surely be plenty of cases in which the keeping of an old one 
would give him who transfers, and by transferring adopts it as his 
own, an almost heroic exercise in humiliation, if he were not 
But this allusion to motives is rather aside from the question of 
-whether old specific names ought or need not to be preserved. If 
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complacency rejected old names and made new ones, each according 
to his own faney. Between their practice and that of those who, 
to me no middle way which at all commends itself to reason or 
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A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEZ. 
By 'J. G. Baxer, F.R:S., F:L.8. 
(Continued from p, 281), 
89. Tillandsia goniorachis, nl. sp. — Leaves lanceolate- 
acuminate; dilated base ovate, 8 in. long, 14 in. broad; blade 
. T. mic 
long, linear-lanceolate ” from an ovate base 2-8 in. ng, 1} in. 
broad; blade moderately firm in texture, thinly lepidote, 4 in. broad 
at the middle, spotted with purple, not setaceous at the apex. 
Pedunele slender, much shorter than the leaves: bract-leaves 
small, ovate, adpressed. Inflorescence a lax panicle, with 6-8 
ower-bract ovate, 4 in. long. 3 lon 1 
obtuse. Corolla not seen. Capsule cylindrical, 4 in. long. 
Hab. Trinidad, Fendler 818! Near T. parvifolia R. & P 
91. T. parvrrotra Ruiz et Pavon, Fl. Peruv. iii. 41, t. 269; 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 1218, Platystachys parviflora 
