154 HANDBOOK OF BROMELIACE^. 



Flowers sessile, very small. Petal with a very sniall exserted 

 blade. Stamens shorter than the calyx. 



Hab. French Guiana, Melinon. Flowered at the Jardin des Plantes in 

 Paris, in 1841. 



2. C. APicRoiDEs Baker in Journ. Bot. 1887, 175. Tillandsia 

 apicroides Cham, et Schlecht in Linnsea, vi. 35. Tussacia apicroides 

 Beer. — Leaves 8-10 to a rosette, thin, lorate, plain green, 6-8 in. 

 long, an inch broad at the middle, deltoid-cuspidate at the apex. 

 Pedmicle very slender, about as long as the leaves. Spikes 5-10, 

 ascending, peduncled, 1^-2 in. long, laxly 12-20-flowered; all the 

 flowers spreading ; flower-bracts ovate, shorter than the calyx. 

 Calyx ^ in. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, imbricated. Petal-blade 

 small, white, suborbicular. 



Hab. Mexico ; province of Xalapa, Schiede d- Deppe ! Galeotti I 



3. C. ScHUMANNiANA Wittm. in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 70. — Leaves linear 

 from an ovate base, f-1 in. broad, 6-9 in. long, ^ in. broad at the 

 base of the blade, obscurely lepidote on the back. Peduncle 

 slender, 4 in. long. Panicle lax, 4-5 in. long, consisting of 8-10 

 very short spikes, subtended by oblong-cuspidate bracts ; flowers 

 6-10 to a spike; flower-bracts shorter than the calyx. Calyx 

 ^-^ in. long ; sepals obtuse. Petal-blade very small. 



Hab. New Granada ; province of Antioquia, in dense woods over Amalfi, 

 alt. 6000—7000 ft., Lehmann. 



4. C. FLExuosA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1887, 175. — Leaves lanceo- 

 late-acuminate from an oblong base, above a foot long, an inch 

 broad at the top of the base. Peduncle a foot long ; bract-leaves 

 adpressed, lanceolate. Panicle very lax, cernuous, above a foot 

 long ; main rachis very flexuose ; branches deflexed or spreading, 

 many compound ; spikes lax, 1-1^- in. long ; flowers erecto-patent ; 

 flower-bracts ovate, ^ in. long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, ^ in long. 

 Petal-blade minute. 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia ; province of Larecaja, alt. 8000 — 9000 ft., Mandon 

 1172! 



5. C. ALOiDES Baker (M.D.). Tillandsia aloides Cham, et 

 Schlecht. in Linn. vi. 55. Tussacia aloides E. Morren. — Leaves 

 about a dozen in a rosette, subulate or lanceolate from an ovate 

 base, under a foot long, an inch broad at the base of the blade, 

 plain green. Peduncle slender, as long or longer than the leaves. 

 Spikes 1 or few, moderately dense, 1-3 in. long : flowers ascending 

 or the lower spreading ; flower-bracts ovate, |-J in. long. Sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, \ in. long. Petal-blade small, white, suborbicular. 



Hab. Central Mexico, Schiede & Deppe ! Bourgeau 1770 ! 2104 ! 



6. C. NiTiDA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1887, 174, non Griseb. (M.D.). 

 C. nutans Griseb. excl. syn. Pogospermam nitidwn, Jlorihundum and 

 Berteronianuin Brong. Tillandsia nitida, Hook. Exot. Flora t. 218. 

 Tussacia nitida Beer. T. CormicnpicB Bertero. Leaves 8-12 in a 

 rosette, lanceolate from an ovate base, 8-12 in. long, an inch broad 

 at the middle, plain green, thinly lepidote beneath. Peduncle as 

 long as the leaves ; bract-leaves lanceolate, erect. Spikes 10-20, 

 arranged in a lax panicle, with ascending branches, the lower 



