TILLANDSIA. '22il 



stiffly erect, twice as long as the leaves ; lower bract-leaves with 

 large lanceolate erect free points. Spike moderately dense, uni- 

 lateral, above a foot long ; flowers patent or rather deflexed ; flower- 

 bracts broad, ovate, an inch long. Calyx an inch long; sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, much imbricated. Petals not seen. Capsule 1 J in. 

 long. 



Hab. Amazon valley, near Para, Burchell 9440 ! Near T. Jonghei and T. 

 Platzmanni. 



277. T. GUTTATA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1888, 108. Vriesea 

 guttata Andre et Linden in 111. Hort. n. s. t. 200 ; E. Morren in 

 Belg. Hort. 1880, i. t. 1 — 3. — Leaves lorate from an ovate base 

 2 in. diam., a foot long, 1-1 ^ in. broad at the middle, firm in texture, 

 suberect, copiously decorated with irregular transverse bands of large 

 claret-purple spots. Peduncle much longer than the leaves ; bract- 

 leaves small, adpressed. Spike simple, sublax, drooping, above a 

 foot long, 3 in. diam. ; flowers all erecto-patent ; flower-bracts 

 ovate, acute, reddish-white, IJ in. long, an inch broad. Calyx 

 yellow, a little longer than the bract. Petal-blade lingulate, 

 yellow, i in. long, shorter than the stamens. 



Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou 15474 ! Introduced into cultivation in 1870, 

 by seed sent from the province of Santa Catherina by M. Gautier. Flowered in 

 1878 at the Luxembourg, and by Dr. Le Bele at Mans. 



278. T. scALARis Baker in Journ. Bot. 1888, 108. Vriesea 

 scalaris E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1880, 309, t. 15 (M.D.). —Leaves 

 12-15 in a rosettte, lorate from an ovate base 2 in. broad, a foot 

 long, f-1 in. broad at the middle, thin, flexible, subglabrous, green 

 on both sides. Peduncle slender, cernuous, a little longer than the 

 leaves ; bract-leaves small, adpressed, not imbricated. Flowers 

 10-12 in a very lax spike a foot long, with a reddish rachis, 

 spreading horizontally ; flower-bracts oblong, acute, bright red, 

 1^ in. long. Calyx yellow, an inch longer than the bract. Petal- 

 blade greenish -yellow, lingulate, J in. longer than the calyx. 

 Stamens longer than the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil, Burchell 3197 ! Introduced into cultivation by Binot 

 in 1879. Allied to T. psittacina, from which it differs by its lax drooping 

 spike. 



279. T. HETERANDEA Andre Enum. 7. — Eadical leaves lanceo- 

 late-setaceous, 6-8 in. long, an inch broad at the base, densely 

 argenteo-lepidote. Stem curved, shorter than the leaves ; bract- 

 leaves much imbricated, with long setaceous tips. Panicle mode- 

 rately dense, 6-8 in. long, composed of about 20 dense peduncled 

 10-12-flowered spikes ; branch -bracts ovate, the lower long-pointed ; 

 flower-bracts ovate, acute, grey-red, shghtly lepidote, i-| in. long. 

 Sepals oblong, acute, glabrous, as long as the bracts. Petals 

 white, half as long again as the sepals, scaled at the base. Stamens 

 shorter than the petals. 



Hab. Eastern Andes of Columbia ; Puente de Quetame, alt. 4500 ft. Andre 

 1213. Habit of Platystachys, but petals scaled at the base. It is regarded by 

 M. Andre as the type of a distinct section, which he calls Heterandrcs. 



