40 A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIE^. 



128. Tillandsia ionantha Planch, in Flore des Serres, t. 1006 ; 

 Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 5892. T. erubescens Hort. PityrophyUiim 

 erubescens Beer, Brom. 79. T. Scopus Hook fil., loc. cit. — Tufts 

 crowded, 2-3 in. long and broad. Leaves 30-40 in a rosette, 

 linear-acuminate, recurved, 2-3 in. long, ^-^ in. broad at the base, 

 thick in texture, densely lepidote all over, channelled all down the 

 face. Flowers few, arranged in a nearly sessile capitulum in the 

 centre of the rosette of leaves ; bracts lanceolate, reaching to the 

 top of the calyx. Calyx green, £ in. long ; sepals oblong. Petals 

 bright violet, twice as long as the calyx ; blade erect, lingulate. 

 Stamens and style longer than the petals. 



Hab. Mexico. Introduced into cultivation at the Herrenhausen 

 Garden before 1857. I cannot from the brief description separate 

 Pityrophyllum gracile Beer (= Tillandsia Quesneliana and Pourrettia 

 stticta Hort.). 



129. T. brachycaulos Schlecht. in Linnsea, xviii. 422; E. 

 Morren in Belg. Hort. 1878, 185, t. 11 ; Hemsl. in Bot. Cent. 

 Amer. iii. 319. — Tuft. 8-9 in. broad, 5-6 in. high. Leaves densely 

 rosulate, lanceolate-acuminate, 6-9 in. long, $ in. broad low down, 

 recurved, thick and rigid in texture, lepidote all over, tinged more 

 or less with reddish brown, channelled all down the face. Flowers 

 10-12 in a central capitulum overtopped by the recurved similar 

 inner leaves. Calyx £ as long as the corolla ; sepals subacute. 

 Petals bright violet, above an inch long ; blade erect, lingulate. 

 Stamens and style exserted beyond the tip of the petals. 



Hab. Central Mexico; gathered by Schiede and Karwinsky. 

 Introduced into cultivation by Roezl in 1876, and flowered in the 

 collection of Prince Furstenberg at Donauschingen. 



Subgenus VII. Allardtia (Dietrich = Platystachys K. Koch non 

 Beer=Vriesea Beer et Griseb. ex parte). — Differs from Platy- 

 stachys by its thin flat flexuose subglabrous lorate or lanceolate 

 leaves, and from Vriesea by its smaller flowers, without any 

 scale on the claw of the petal. Acaulescent, with leaves in a 

 dense utricular rosette. Spikes distichous, simple, or forming 



a distichous panicle. 



Ke 



Inflorescence a simple spike • • . Sp. 130-135. 



Inflorescence panieled. 



Whole 

 Whole 



Sp. 186-149. 

 Sp. 150-154. 



130. T. brachycephala, n. sp. — Leaves few in a rosette, 

 linear, acute, glabrous, thin in texture, closely ribbed, above a foot 

 long, i in. broad at the middle, $-1 in. at the dilated base. 

 Peduncle slender, as long as the leaves; lower bract-leaves with 

 long erect points. Flowers in a dense globose capitulum ; flower- 

 bracts oblong, obtuse, | in. long. Calyx reaching to the tip of the 

 bract. Petals not seen. Capsule- valves linear, 1£ «*« l° n £- 



Hab. Peru ; St. Gavan, LeeMer 2409 ! 



