140 A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIE.E. 



Wawra Reise Kaia Max. 159, t. 25.— Leaves 30-50 in a dense 

 rosette, lorate from an ovate base 6-9 in. diam., flexible, glabrous, 

 plain green with a glaucous bloom, 2-3 ft. long, 3-6 in. broad 

 at the middle, narrowed gradually to the point. Peduncle about 

 as ^ long as the leaves ; bract-leaves with large free lanceolate 

 points. Panicle very large ; branches erecto-patent in the type ; 

 branch-bracts large, green, ovate-cuspidate ; flowers spaced out, 

 usually erecto-patent ; rachis stout, flexuose ; flower-bracts oblong, 

 obtuse, 1-1J in. long. Calyx 1^-2 in. long; sepals oblong, 

 obtuse. Petals oblanceolate, obtuse, whitish, an inch longer than 

 the calyx. Stamens as long as the petals. Style twice as long as 

 the calyx. Capsule 1^-2 in, long. 



Hab. South Brazil ; forests of Rio Janeiro and St. Paulo, 

 Burchefl 2916! (year 1826;. Glaziou 15468! 15469! 15470! 

 Masm 3247 ! V. giganUa Lemaire {Glaziou 11685, 1685 !) is a form 

 with narrower leaves than the type, shorter deflexed spikes and 



crowded flowers. Introduced into cultivation by Linden about 

 1868. 



216. T. grandis Schlecht in Linnaea xviii. 424. — Leaves lorate 

 from a dilated base 3 in. diam., thin, flexible, 1|~2 ft. long, 2 in. 

 broad at the middle, deltoid cuspidate at the apex. Inflorescence 

 an ample panicle ; lower branches 1£ ft. long, with a spike a foot 

 long; flowers |- in. apart; flower-bracts ovate, obtuse, shorter than 

 the calyx. Calyx 1£ in. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, above £ in. 

 broad. Petals unknown. Capsule 2 hi. long. 



Hab. Mexico ; Hacienda de la Laguna, Sc/u'ede. 



217 T. paniculata Linn. Sp. 410 (Plum. Ic. t. 237), Roem. et 

 Schultes Veg. vii. 1220.— This is founded entirely upon two figures 

 of Plumier. The published one cited represents a plant with 

 a dense rosette of lanceolate leaves and a huge chandelier-like 

 panicle with spreading main branches and short secund laxly- 

 flowered ascending branchlets. The unpublished figure represents 

 a flower 4 in. long, with an oblong acute flower-bract shorter than 

 the calyx, a calyx half as long as the corolla, with acute sepal?, a 

 lanceolate petal-blade as long as the calyx and stamens longer than 

 the petals. Nothing at all lfke it is known in St. Domingo or the 

 other West Indian islands at the present day. 



Imperfectly known and tmdeseribed species. 



218. Vriesea ? sanguinolkmv Cogn. and March, in Album 

 Pall. ii. 1874, t. 52; Andre in 111. Hort. n. s. t. 200.— Leaves 

 lorate, a foot or more Joi , an inch broad at the middle, deltoid- 

 cuspidate at the apex, green, copiously irregularly spotted with 

 claret-red as in I". guttata, but not utriculate and dilated at the 

 base. Inflorescence unknown New Granada at Choco, discovered 

 by Roezl in 1872. 



211). V, Krameri, mentioned Gard. Chron. 1883, 510. 



220, V. prodigiosa Lemaire in 111. Hort. xvi. App. 92.— 

 Peduncle above 4 ft. long. Inflorescence composed of about 

 30 dense 10-12 flowered spikes 8-4 in. loug, subtended by large 



