846 A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIEX. 
595. T'. tenuifolia Jacq. Amer. 92, t. 63; Pict. t. 93. 7. aloifolia 
aS Exot. Flora, t. 205; . = Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 
1214; Miquel in Linnwa, xvii. 66; 1.375. Vriesea svatoka and 
emule Beer, Brom. 96. Plugptachys Ehrenbergit K. Koch, Ind. 
Sem t. Berol. 1873, App . 5.— Leaves 10-20 in a dense 
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hardly at all lepidote. peecaw 4-1 ft. long; sieeh, me shell 
seariose, adpressed. Spikes 8 very lax, few-flowered, 6-12 in. long, 
rarely simple, usually panicled: rachis flexuose ; ‘lowers arenes 
patent ; flower-bracts oblong, 3-1 in. long. Calyx 4-4 in. longer 
than the bract. Petals greenish white or tinged with claret- red, 
4 in. al than the calyx; blade lingulate, Stamens longer than 
e petals. 
xico, Ehrenberg. Yucatan, Schott 288! Honduras, 
1! Jamaica, Swartz, 
Purdie! §t. Vincent, Guilding | St. Thomas, Baron Eggers 897! 
Trinidad, Baron Schach! Fendler 826! Santa Martha, Purdie! 
Carthagena, Jacquin, Pics at —— 1526! 2451! Demerara, 
Schomburgk! Jenman 8827 | Surin m, Kegel 436, 1048. 
110. obese Wawra Agra Bot. Zeitsch. Xxx. 222; 
French transl. 71; Itin. Prin, ae Cob. 171.—Leaves densely 
rosulate ; base ovate, mo in. broad ; blade linear-setaceous, 4-1 ft 
long, it in broad at the middle, densely lepidote. Pedunele 
8-16 in. ey lower or leaves me aay eae small, adpressed. 
Inflorescence a lax panicle, with reading 6-8-flowered 
branches 2-8 in. long; flowers lax, teh bracts oblong- fal 
late, reddish brown, above an inch long. Calyx rather shorter 
: an the bract; sepals obtuse. Corolla not seen. Capsule 13 in. 
ong. 
Hab. South Brazil; Corocovado Mountains, Wawra d& Maly 
li. 224; Glaziou 11583! Allied to T. — 
: 111. T. bre vibracteata, n. sp. — Leaves 20-30 in a rosette; 
dilated base ovate, 2 in, races blade Preeti a foot long, an inch 
broad at the base, rigidly coriaceous, densely finely lepidote on both 
surfaces, tapering gradually into a setaceous point. Peduncle a foot 
g, stiffly . int nicle 
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wer 6-8 in » 10-12-flowered ; flowers laxly disposed, erect, 
adpressed to ae te fle exuose rachis; flower-bracts Ror keg i obtuse, 
4in. long. Corolla glabrous, twice as lon the bract ; 3 ee 
obits, » orolla not seen, Capsule- valves ‘Sia prey 1} in. long, 
in. bro 
. Hab. Forests of Martinique, Hahn 524! 578! 680! Received 
_ from Dr. Cosson and the the Paris Museum. 
112. T. e rectiflora, n. sp. — Leaves densely rosulate; dilated 
base ‘suborbicula, 2 in, long and broad; blade comets acute, 
