Plants Collected in Paraguay. 237 



Tillandsia glutinosa. Mart., R. and S., Syst., vii, 1225. 



Caballero (513). January. 



A fine large epiphyte on trees near the Tebicuary River at 

 Caballero. The plant is 1 or 1^ m. high; the stem about 12 mm. 

 thick, clothed with silvery leaves 3-6 dm. in length. Peduncle 4 

 or 5 dm. long, very branching, covered with bracts 3-5 cm. long, 

 and each flower under a similar bract. Flowers spicate, all erect, 

 large, yellow. The plant very showy. 



Tillandsia Hilaireana, Baker, Handb. Brom., 199. 



Between Villa Rica and Escoba (493). January. 



A beautiful epiphyte about 20 cm. high, with densely tufted, 

 rigid, channelled, long pointed, silvery, lepidote leaves which are 

 about 10 cm. long. Flowers spicate, on a scape 10 or 12 cm. high. 

 Petals red. This occurs with no. 492, but is larger and more showy. 

 It is also abundant on the Pilcomayo River, and our party fre- 

 quently gathered the flowers, and hung them upon the posts of our 

 camp and along the cabin sides of our steamer for ornament. 



Tillandsia Lorentziana, Griseb., PI. Lor., 223. 



Pilcomayo River (902). April. = Balansa 4744. 



A conspicuous epiphyte on the trees along the upper Pilcomayo. 

 Leaves rigid, coriaceous, 10-20 cm. long, channelled, 2 cm. broad 

 at the base, long acuminate and curling up at the end like a pig's 

 tail, striate, densely white lepidote, about 20 on the short, thick 

 stem. Flowers in lateral spikes on a peduncle nearly 7 dm. in 

 length. Petals blue and purple striped, rounded and recurved at 

 the apex, white in the interior of the tube, 2^ cm. high and 2 cm. 

 broad when expanded ; calyx, if so called, of 3 reddish parts closely 

 appressed to the tube of the corolla. 



Tillandsia recurvata, L., Sp. PL, Ed. 2, 410. 



Gran Chaco opposite Asuncion (292 b); between Yilla Rica and 

 Escoba (492 a); Pilcomayo River (876 and 1085). January-May. 



One of the most common epiphytes growing in Paraguay. It 

 appears to be very widespread, occurring all the way from Florida 

 to Chile and the Argentine Republic. It is a small, densely caespi- 

 tose plant, with subulate, channelled, white lepidote leaves, and 

 solitary or 1-3 olive-colored flowers on capillary peduncles. It 

 sometimes covers the trunks and limbs of trees so densely that the 

 bark can scarcely be seen. 



