A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSlE.i:. 139 



Hub. South Brazil ; forests of the neighbourhood of Rio 

 Janeiro and St. Paulo, Wawra and Malu % Lomjmanl Glaziou 

 8017! 16473! Maun 3248! 



212. T. reticulata Baker in GarcL Cliron. 1887 i. 140.— Leaves 

 30-40 in a dense rosette, lorate from a dilated ovate base 4 in. 

 broad, thin, flexible, subglabrous, l.V-2 ft. long, 3 in. broad at tin 

 middle, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex, grey green reticulated with 

 copious macula tions of pale green. Peduncle nearly as long as the 

 leaves; bract-leaves imbricated. Panicle a foot or more long; 

 tranches many, erecto-patent ; flowers spaced out, erecto-patent ; 

 flower-bracts ovate, greenish, under an inch long. Calyx 1 } -li in. 

 long ; sepals obtuse. Petal-blade small, orbicular, whitish, falcate. 

 Stamens just protruded beyond the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil; Rio Grande de Sul. Described from a 

 plant that flowered with Mr. Wm. Bull, in March, 1873. 



218. T. Morreni Baker. Vriesea Mo /rem Wawra in (Ester. 

 Bofc. Zdfc. xxx. 219 ; French trans. 69 ; Itin. Prin. Sax. Cob. 166, 

 fe. 30 and 37 b. — Leaves 30 or more in a dense rosette, lorate from 

 a dilated ovate base, 4 in. broad, H ft. long, 24-8 in. broad at the 

 middle, thin, flexible, subglabrous, rounded to a cusp at the apex, 

 gr< n, transversely banded with brown fiexuose lines. Peduncle 

 under a foot long. Panicle rhomboid, 2 ft. long; branches few, 

 long, erecto-patent, many flowered; branch-bracts small, ovate; 

 flowers stcund, erecto-patent ; flower-bracts oblong, brownish, an 

 mch long. Calyx half as long as the bract; sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate. Petals greenish yellow, 2 in. long ; blade oblanceolate- 

 oblong. Stamens not larger than the petals. Capsule twice as 

 long as the calyx. 



Hab. South Brazil ; waterfall of Itamarati, near Petropolis, 

 H'xura and Maly ii. 72; and a doubtful variety with di icbous 

 flowers and niuch smaller capsule at Teresopolis, Wawra and M<thj 

 ii 350. 



214. T. tessellata Linden and Andre in 111. Hort. 1873, 78 ; 

 1874, 123, t. 179; E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1882, 381, t. 14-16. 

 Leaves 30-40 in a rosette, lorate from a dilated ovate base, 1J-2 ft. 

 l"ng, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, rounded to a cusp at the apex, 

 thin, flexible, subglabrous, tessellated all over with fine green 

 cross-lines on a pale ground. Peduncle as long as the leaves ; 

 lo* p bract-leaves with spreading tips, also tessellated. Panicle 

 8-5 ft. long ; branches many, ascending, lower a foot long ; flowers 

 secund, ascending ; flower-bracts oblong, 1£-H in. long. Calyx 

 green, 2 in. long. Petals yellowish white, half an inch longer than 

 the calyx. Stamens as long as the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil; province of Santa Catherina, introduced 

 oy Linden about 1872. 



215. T. regina Veil. Fl. Flum. iii- t. 142. Vri* a regvM Beer, 

 Ih-om. 97 ; E. Morren in Belg. Hort. xiv. 325 ; Wawra in Oester 

 itot. Zeit. xxx. 185 ; French trans. 66 ; Itin. Prin. Sax. Cob. 163, 

 \\ 88 a; Gard. Cliron. 1875, fig. 41; Antoine, Brom. t. 9-10. 

 \ ; gigantea Gaudich. Atlas Bonite t. 70 ; Lemaire in 111. I fort, t. 516. 

 v - (ilasioviam Lemaire 111. Hort. xiv. Misc. 13. 1'. rjmiculatn 



