TILLANDSIA, 1G3 



down the face, densely lepidote all over. Peduncle slender, 8-5 in. 

 long, with a single small leaf low down. Mowers 1-3, crowded if 

 more than one, erect; flower-bracts lanceolate, lepidote, ^-^ in, 

 long. Sepals rigid, linear-oblong, naked, ^-^ in. long. Petal- 

 blade minute, ovate, violet. Capsule-valves linear, f-1 in. long. 



Hab. Throughout Tropieai and Subtropical America, from Florida and 

 Mexico to Buenos Ayrea and Chili, ascending to 10000 ft. in the Andes. It has 

 the widest geographical range of any species of the order. In T. moiiostachya 

 Gillies non Linn., the flowers are solitary and the leaves stouter than in the 

 type and only I — 1^ in. long. 



17, T, WiLsoNi S. Wats. Gontr, xv. 266, — Stems simple, very 

 short. Leaves numerous, subterete, 1-4 in, long, gradually 

 narrowed from the clasping base to the long attenuate apex, hoary, 

 with minute adpressed peltate brown-centred scales. Peduncle 

 very slender, recurved, about as long as the leaves, with two 

 distinct bract-leaves, probably 1-3-flowered, Flowers and capsule 

 unknown, 



Hab. Florida; Hernando county, on dead branches of red cedar. Dis- 

 covered by Dr. Wilson, of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1887. 



18, T. QUADRiFLORA Baker. — Leaves densely tufted, subulate 

 from a clasping base, 1-1| in. long, densely lepidote. Peduncle 

 slender, 2-3 in. long. Flowers 3-4 in a distichous spike ; flower- 

 bracts oblong, lepidote, ^ in. long. Sepals oblong, naked, as long 

 fis the bract, Petal-blad« lilac, euneate, ^ in, long. Capsule an 

 inch long. 



Hab, High Andes of Bolivia, Wedded I Mandon 1176 1 Banda Oriental, 

 Miers 1363 1 Connects Biaphoranthema and Phytarhiza, 



19, T. MYosuRA Griseb. in Lorentz PI. Argent. No. 122. — 

 Leafy stem 1-3 in. long. Leaves subulate, rigidly coriaceous, 

 densely lepidote, reaching a length of 4-5 in., spreading or recurved, 

 ^-^ in, diam, low down, channelled down the face. Peduncle 

 2-4 in. long, with a single bract-leaf at the middle ; flowers 1-3, 

 erect ; flower-bract oblong-lanceolate, lepidote, | in. long. Sepals 

 linear-oblong, rigid, naked, ^ in. long. Capsule subcylindrical, 

 1-lJ^ in, long, 



Hab. Banda Oriental, Miers 13671 Gordoba, Lorentz 122! Andes of 

 Bolivia, alt. 8000 ft., Mandon 11801 



3, Subgenus Phytarhiza (Visiani). 



20. T, CROCATA Baker in Journ, Bot, 1887, 214. Phytarhiza 

 crocata^. Morren in Belg, Hort, 1880, 27 (M.D.). — Leafy stem 

 3-4 in. long. Leaves laxly disposed, reflexing, linear-subulate, 

 6-9 in. long, ^-^ in, broad low down, firm in texture, densely 

 clothed with spreading hair-pointed whitish scales. Peduncle 

 slender, 6-8 in. long; bract -leaves few, with long erect subulate 

 points. Flowers few, in a simple dense spike 1-1^ in. long; 

 flower -bracts oblong-lanceolate, densely lepidote, -l-f in. long. 

 Calyx "I in. long ; sepals acute. Petal-blade obovate, bright yellow, 

 J~|- in. long. Stamens and style not longer than the calyx. 



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