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flower-bracts ovate-oblong, bright red, f in. long. Calyx | in. 

 longer than the bract, bright red ; sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals 

 white, convolute in a tube more than -| in. longer than the calyx. 

 . Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 15472 1 Introduced into cultivation in 1885. 



255. T. psiTTAciNA Hook. in. Bot. Mag. t. 2841. Vriesea psitta- 

 cina Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxix. t. 10; E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 

 1882, 287, t. 10-12; Antoine Brom. 8, t. 6 (M.D.).— Leaves about 

 a dozen in a rosette, lanceolate from an ovate base 2 in. broad, 

 about a foot long, an inch broad at the middle, thin, flexible, sub- 

 glabrous, green on both sides. Peduncle about as long as the 

 leaves; bract-leaves adpressed, imbricated, bright red. Flowers 

 6-10 in a simple lax erect spike with a red rachis ; lower flowers 

 erecto-patent ; flower-bracts oblong. If in. long, bright red at the 

 base, bright yellow upwards tipped with green. Calyx rather 

 longer than the bract ; sepals obtuse. Petal-blade Ungulate, 

 yellow, -J- in. long, shorter than the stamens. 



Hab. Woods of South Brazil, Burchell 2540 ! Blanchet 3373 ! Miers 3766 1 

 3874 ! Introduced into cultivation by Mr. Shepherd, at the Liverpool Botanic 

 Garden in 1827. Probably this is T. simplex Veil. Fl. Flum. iii. t. 130 {Vriesea 

 simplex Beer). V. Krameri Hort. (Bot. Mag. t. 5108), is a form with entirely 

 red flower-bracts, var. decolor Wawra, a form with green flower-bracts and 

 calyx, and V. retroflexa E. Morren (M.D.), a hybrid between psittacina and 

 scalaris, with a longer cernuous peduncle. This is the type of Morren's sub- 

 genus Euvriesea, characterised by its moderately long lingulate petal-blade and 

 exserted stamens longer than the petals. 



256. T. LAXA Griseb. in Gott. Nacht. 1864, 18, non Fl. Brit. 

 West Ind. 596. — Leaves lorate from an ovate base. Peduncle 

 longer than than the leaves ; bract-leaves small, adpressed. Spike 

 lax, simple, 6-8-flowered ; flower-bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse. 

 Calyx slightly longer than the bract. Corolla 2 in. long. Capsule 

 as long as the calyx. 



Hab. Mountains of Venezuela, alt. 3000 ft., Fendler 2166. Allied to T. 

 psittacina. 



257. T. ENSiFORMis Veil. Fl. Flum. iii. t. 129. Vriesea ensiformis 

 Beer. V, conferta Gaudich. Atlas Bonite, t. 65 ; Antoine Brom. 3, 

 t. 3. — Leaves 20 to a rosette, lorate from an ovate base 3 in. diam., 

 11-2 ft. long, 1-1- in. broad at the middle, deltoid-cuspidate at the 

 tip, thin, flexible, subglabrous, pale green. Peduncle as long as 

 the leaves; bract-leaves adpressed, imbricated. Liflorescence a 

 simple erect distichous spike J— IJ ft. long, 3 in. diam. ; all the 

 flowers erecto-patent, upper crowded ; flower-bracts ovate, acute, 

 reddish, l|-2 in. long, an inch broad. Calyx as long as the bract. 

 Petal-blade lingulate, yellow, J in. long, shorter than the stamens. 

 Capsule 2 in. long. 



Hab. Southern provinces of Brazil, Sello 63 ! Oaudichaud 366 I Glaziou 

 13263 ! T. imbricata Veil. M. Flum. iii. t. 131 {Vriesea imhricata Beer), differs 

 by its larger flower-bracts, more gradually narrowed to an acute point. The 

 plant drawn for conferta by Morren is, I think, a variety of psittacina. 



258. T. DECURVATA Baker. T, recurvata Baker in Journ. Bot. 

 1888, 106, non Linn. Vriesia recurvata Gaudich. Atlas, Bonite t. 69 

 (M.D.j. — Leaves lorate from an ovate base 2 in. broad, 2 ft. long, 



