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thin in texture, plain green on both surfaces, not perceptibly lepi- 

 dote beneath, narrowed gradually to the point, the marginal 

 prickles close, spreading, minute, deltoid. Flowers in a small 

 head in the centre of the small ovate inner leaves ; flower-bracts 

 ovate, rather rigid, under an inch long. Capsule oblong-trigonous, 

 J in. long, crowned by the withered calyx. Corolla not seen. 

 Hab. British Guiana ; Marimi, Appun 1055 1 Gathered in 1864 — 5. 



6. C. BiviTTATus Regel; E. Morren, Cat. 1871, 2 (M.D.). 

 Billhergia hivittata Hook in Bot. Mag. t. 5270. Nidularium bivitta- 

 timi Lemaire. Tillandsia vittata and hivittata Hort. — Leaves about 

 20 in a short copiously stoloniferous rosette, oblong-lanceolate, 

 sessile, 6-9 in. long, lf-2 in. broad, undulated, moderately firm in 

 texture, with two distinct pale vertical bands, often tinged with 

 reddish-brown, thinly white-lepidote on the back, narrowed gradu- 

 ally to the tip, the marginal prickles close and minute. Flowers 

 in a tuft in the centre and a few also sometimes in the axils of the 

 inner leaves. Ovary including the calyx f in. long; segments sub- 

 orbicular. Petals oblanceolate, white, an inch long. Stamens and 

 style falling considerably short of the petals. 



Var. LuDDEMANNii Baker. — More robust than the type, leaves 



2 in. broad, much tinged with brown, and the two vertical vittse 

 almost or quite confluent into a broad band occupying more than 

 half of the centre of the face of the blade. 



Hab. South Brazil. Introduced by Linden from Porto Seguro. We have 

 had it in cultivation at Kew since 1859. It first flowered in 1861. The variety 

 is described from a drawing of Professor Morren's. 



7. C. PE^TEXTus E. Morren (M.D.). — Leaves 10-12 in a rosette 



3 in. high, ensiform, J ft. long, ^-\ in. broad, firm in texture, 

 brown on the face with a single broad paler central vertical band, 

 white-lepidote on the back, narrowed gradually to the point, much 

 undulated on the edge, the marginal prickles close and minute. 

 Flowers not seen. 



Hab. Brazil. Described from Prof. Morren's drawing, made in Aug., 1885. 



8. C. Makoyanus Baker (M.D.). — Leaves a dozen or more in a 

 short rosette, sessile, oblanceolate-oblong, 6-9 in. long, 1J~2 in. 

 broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to a broad base, mode- 

 rately firm in texture, furnished on the face with a paler vertical 

 band on each side of the darker green centre, as in C. bivittatus, 

 but less distinct, thinly white-lepidote on the back, acute, the 

 marginal prickles small and distinct. Flowers in a small rosette in 

 the centre of the reduced ovate inner leaves. Petal-blade oblong, 

 white, i in. long. 



Hab. Brazil. Described from Prof. Morren's drawing, made from a plant 

 flowered by M. Jacob Makoy in Feb., 1886. Closely allied to C. Lubhersianus. 



9. C. LuBBEKsiANUs E. Morrcn (M.D.). — Leaves a dozen or 

 more in a short rosette, oblanceolate-oblong, reaching above a foot 

 in length, 1J~2 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to a 

 base ^ in. broad, moderately firm in texture, green or tinged with 

 brown on the face, with copious darker green blotches and two 

 indistinct pale vertical bands, thinly white-lepidote on the back 



