48 A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIE^E. 



Spikes panicled. 



Flower -bracts nearly or quite as long 



as the calyx Sp. 198-206. 



Flower-bracts shorter than the calyx Sp. 207-217. 

 Imperfectly-known species Sp. 218-220. 



159. T. Billbergije Baker. Vriesea Billbergia Leinaire in 111. 

 Hort. xvi. Misc. 91. — Habit of a Billbergia. Leaf-bases utriculate 

 in a globe 4-5 in. high ; blade lorate, 6-8 in. long, 1| in. broad, 

 deltoid-cuspidate at the apex. Peduncle much longer than the 

 leaves. Spike dense, distichous. Petals green, red and white. 

 Stamens exserted. 



Hab. Mexico, in oak forests. Sent by Ghiesbreght to Ver- 

 sehaffelt, about 1865. 



160. T. Duvaliana Baker. Vriesea Dumliana E. Morren in 

 Belg. Hort. 1884, 105, t. 7-8.— Leaves about twenty in a rosette, 

 lorate from a dilated base 1| in. diam., under a foot long, an inch 

 broad below the middle, plain green on the face, tinged with purple 

 on the back, flexible, subglabrous, deltoid- cuspidate at the tip. 

 Peduncle rather exceeding the leaves ; bract-leaves small, broad, 

 scariose, adpressed. Spike dense, distichous, about 20-flowered, 

 5-6 in. long ; flowers all erecto -patent ; flower-bracts oblong- 

 navicular, acute, l£-l| in. long, bright red and yellow at the base, 

 green at the tip. Calyx reaching to the tip of the bract. Petals 

 greenish yellow, half an inch longer than the calyx. Stamens a 

 little longer than the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil, in woods near Bio Janeiro, Glaziou 14344 ! 



Introduced into cultivation about 1875, probably by Biiiot. Named 



after M. Duval, of Versailles, who exhibited it in flower at Paris 

 in 1883. 



161. T. heliconioides H.B.K., Nov. Gen. i. 234; Boem. et 



Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 1226. Vriesea heliconoioides Lindl. in Bot. 

 Beg. 1843, sub. t. 10; E. Morren in 111. Hort. n. s. t. 490; Antoine 

 Brom. n. t. 8 ; Gard. Chron. 1884, ii. 140, fig. 26. V. bellula and 

 Ftdkenberiiii Hort. T. disticha Willd. herb. No. 6327. Platystachys 

 disticha Beer, Brom. 264.— Leaves 15-20 in a rosette, lorate from 

 an ovate base 1| in. diam., thin, flexible, plain from above, tinged 

 with purple beneath, an inch broad at the middle, narrowed 

 gradually to the point. Peduncle much shorter than the leaves ; 

 bract-leaves small, adpressed. Flowers 6-10 in a simple erect 

 spike 4-6 in. long, 2 in. diam. ; flower-bracts ovate-navicular, 

 acute, recurved, If in. long, bright red at the base, green at the 

 tip. Calyx a little over an inch long; sepals obtuse. Petals 

 white, twice as long as the calyx ; blade J in. broad. Stamens as 

 long as the petals. 



Hab. Valley of Rio Magdalena; first gathered there by 

 Humboldt, Introduced into cultivation by the Continental Com- 

 pany of Horticulture, and exhibited at Ghent in 1883. 



162. T. pachychlamys Baker. — Leaves lorate from an ovate 

 dilated base 2 in. broad, 3 ft. long, 2 in. broad at the middle, 

 flexible, subglabrous, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex. Peduncle 



