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VRIESIA 



VRJESIA 



BBB. Lcs, marked ivifli strong trims rose' bands. 

 hieroglypliica, Morr. (T i U a u d s ia hierog/yphica , 

 Bail. ) . Lvs. many, rcsTilatf , strtut, recurved, short- 

 acute, very strcm.i^ly ttinl irrei^ularly marked and 

 banded with dark ^reen above and l)rown -purple be- 

 neath: intlorescence paniculate, the bracts broadly el- 

 liptic-ovate, the fls. vellowish. Brazil. I.H. 31:.")1-1-; 42, 

 p. 318. R.H. 1891:400. -A very striking and showy 

 plant. Sometimes known as a Massan^ea. 



V. fiilgida, Hort.. has been eatalogned in this eoiintrj-. It is 

 a garden hybrid (V. inr-nrvata X DuvmU). It has short gre-'n 

 lvs. and an exserted simple spike with distichous bright red 



imbricated bracts. I.H. '.ir^-.Gl.— Y. glaucophplla. Hook., is re 

 ferred to Tillundsia fascirulata.— T'. ■/nv.saica. Cogn., is Guz 

 mania, for which see TilL-indsia. It is also known .is a Massan 

 gea (see p, [M'2).—Y. zehr'ina, Hort., is sometimes V. spleiulens. 

 and sometimes Cryptanthus zonatus. Fur the liitter. see dis' 

 cussiou under Tillandsia and Fig. 25ir>. t tt m 



VULNERARIA. r. AnthylJis, Scop., is A)i(Jn/lh'.<i 

 I'lthirn/ rid , which see in Vol. I. The other Vtilnerarias 

 are referred to the saiiie genus. 



VYilNOMUS is another spelling for Euomjmus. 



3707. Vriesia carinata. 



