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T. pulchella. — This is another beautiful plant belonging to 

 the Bromeliaceous order. The leaves are about six inches 

 long, subulate, erect, dark green, but clothed with a white 

 farinose substance ; the scape is erect, longer than the 

 leaves, and clothed from base to point with large bright red 

 bracts, from which the white flowers protrude. It blooms 

 during winter, and forms a splendid object if several plants 

 are grown together on a block of wood, or in a basket. 

 Native of Trinidad. 



T. recurvifolia. — A beautiful dwarf compact-growing 

 species, forming dense tufts of very glaucous leaves, which 

 are about four inches long, lanceolate-subulate in shape, 

 sheathing at the base, plain at the edges, and sharp pointed 

 at the apex ; the flower spike is short ovate, the bracts large, 

 bright rosy pink, and the flowers pure white. A very hand- 

 some little plant, which should be grown in a small basket or 

 on a block of wood. It blooms during winter. Native of 

 Panama. 



T. stricta. — This pretty species has sheathing ligulate 

 leaves about six inches long, and half-an-inch broad at the 

 base, covered with a scurfy white substance. The flower 

 spike is eight or nine inches high, clothed with ample ovate 

 white bracts, delicately tinged with rose ; the calyx is rosy 

 white, and the corolla a deep violet when first open, changing 

 to red with age. It blooms during the winter months. 

 Najtive of Brazil. 



T. xiphioides. — This, though not a very showy plant, is 

 valuable on account of its deliciously-scented flowers. The 

 leaves are rosulate, about six inches long, and half-an-inch 

 broad at the base, clothed with silvery grey woolly hairs ; 

 the flowers are boyne upon spikes about six inches long, and 

 are pure white. It succeeds well grown upon a block of 

 wood or piece of cork. Native of South America. 



