

A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSlEai. 13 



116. T. plumosa, n. sp. — Leaves densely rosulate, subulate 

 from a clasping ovate scariose base, 3-4 in. long, l-12th in. broad 

 low down, not rigid, densely coated with large spreading white 

 lanceolate scales. Peduncle shorter than the leaves ; bract-leaves 

 crowded, with long densely lepidote erect free points. Flowers 

 12-20, aggregated in a dense head about £ in. long and broad ; 

 flower-bracts ovate-cuspidate, strongly ribbed, J-£ in. long. Calyx 

 reaching to the tip of the bract, laterally compressed, nearly flat 

 on the inner face ; sepals deeply navicular, acute. Petals not seen. 



Hab. Mexico, in the Province of Puebla, on trees, Andrieux 57 ! 



117. T. rupicola, n.sp. — Leaves 80-40 crowded on a stem 

 an inch long, linear- subulate, reflexed, about two inches long, the 

 channelled lanceolate base £ in. broad, not rigid in texture, densely 

 clothed all over with large persistent glittering erecto-patent white 

 lanceolate scales. Peduncle about as long as the leaves ; bract- 

 leaves crowded, all with long erect subulate points from a clasping 

 ovate scariose base. Flowers 8-12 in a very dense simple sub- 

 globose very multifarious spike £-f long; flower-bracts oblong- 

 navicular, acute or cuspidate, stramineous, thinly lepidote, ^-^ in. 

 long. Calyx J in. long, glabrous ; sepals acute. Petal-blade deep 

 violet, oblong, £ in. long. 



Hab. Ecuador; forming a dense tuft on rocks in front of the 

 village of Ona, alt. 8000 ft., Col. Hall ! Very distinct. I have not 

 seen Anoplophytum calothyrsus Beer, Brom. 263 (name only), founded 

 on Poppig 1224, from Peru; nor A. lovyebracteatum Beer, gathered 

 by Meyen; A. setaceam Beer (Cuba, Otto) ; nor A. Sprengelianum 

 Beer, all mentioned by name only in his ■ Bepertorium.' 



118. T. pulchra Hook. Exot. Flora, 154; Roem. et Schultes, 

 Syst. Veg. vii. 1208 ; Wawra in Oester. Bot. Zeit. 1880, 224 ; Itin. 

 Prin. Sax. Cob. 173, t. 34. T. pulchella Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5229 ; 

 Griseb. Brit. West Ind. 598; Belg. Hort. ix. 322, with figure. 



T. pityphylla Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. /. c. Anoplophytum 

 pulchellvm Beer, Brom. 41. Pourretia surinamensis Hort. — Stem 

 sometimes short, sometimes produced to a length of half a foot. 

 Leaves densely crowded, ascending, linear, narrowed gradually 

 into a long subulate point, 4-5 in. long, £ in. broad low down, firm 

 in texture, thinly lepidote. Peduncle slender, erect, 3-4 in. long ; 

 bracts lanceolate, with long subulate points. Flowers 6-12 in a 

 dense spike ; flower-bracts ovate, acute, rose-tinted, \-§ in. long. 

 Calyx \ in. long; sepals oblong, acute. Petals white, half as long 

 again as the calyx. Stamens and style shorter than the petals. 



Var. am(enum Baker. Anoplophytum amcenum E. Morren in 

 Belg. Hort. 1883, 265, t. 17. — Corolla violet. Leaves still more 

 slender than in the type. 



Hab. South Brazil, Bowie d ( unmnyham (year 1817) I Burchell 

 2033! Glnziou 2730 ! 8025 ! 13257 ! 16456 ! Gardner 695 ! Dutch 

 Guiana, Ket/el 801. Mountains of Venezuela, alt. 4500 ft., Fendler 

 2576. Trinidad, Baron Schacht ! (Cultivated by Mr. Shepherd at 

 Liverpool in 1824). Cuba, Wright 685 ! Var. vayinata Wawra is 

 a form with a produced leafy stem. 



119. T. globosa Wawra in Oester. Bot. Zeitsch. xxx. 222; 



