TILLANDSIA. 



ilovts, by lady Ncale, about the year 1799. The root is 

 fomewhat tuberous, with many tough fniootli fibres. Stem 

 about fix inches high, furrouiided, and ahnoll concealed, by 

 the denic tuft of very numerous radical haves, which are 

 foraetimes all curved to one fide, five or fix inches long, pale 

 green, frofted, as it were, with hoary fcaly pubefcence, 

 thickeft towards the bafe. SpHe three inches long, fimple, 

 many -flowered, with beautiful large wlrite braBeas, tinged 

 and tipped with rofe-colour ; the lower ones ending in leafy 

 points. Calyx of the colour of the bradeas, but hardly fo 

 long. Corolla with obtule, cmarginate, convolute feg- 

 ments, at firft of a rich deep blue, but finally changing to a 

 deep red. Capfuh- dark brown, an inch long. This is, no 

 doubt, very different from 2". manojlachyci, though Linnsus's 

 account of that fpecies maybe, as julUy hinted in the Bot. 

 Mag., incomplete. T. JlriBa flowers in November. It is 

 faid to live and bloflTom when fulpcnded by a thread in a warm 

 room. Few plants are more elegant or fingular. 



16. T. recurvata. Recurved-leaved Tillandfia. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 410. Willd. n. 15. Ait. n. 6. Purlh n. i. Swartz 

 Obf. 121. (Vifcum caryophylloides minus, foliis pruinx 

 inftar candicantibus, flore tripctalo purpureo, femine fila- 

 mentofo ; Sloane Jam. v. i. 190. t. 121. f. i.) — Leaves ra- 

 dical, awl-fliaped, fcaly, recurved. Stalks naked, two- 

 flowered — Native of the trunks of old rotten trees, in Ja- 

 maica and the Brafils, as well as in Florida and Georgia, 

 growing in denfe tufts. The Jlems are very fliort, clothed 

 with crowded, fpreading, recurved, (heathing /ra-ucj-, two or 

 three inches long, downy with minute hoary fcales. Stalks 

 terminal, folitary, four inches high, (lender, round, naked 

 and fmooth, each bearing at the top two upright Jlowers, 

 enveloped in a pair of flieatliing, furrowed, dotted bradeas. 

 Segments of the corolla blue, obtufe, fcarcely extending be- 

 yond the calyx. Anthers yellow. Capfule an inch long, 

 flender, brown and fliining, enveloped in the pale fegments 

 of the permanent calyx, which are as long, and nearly as 

 broad, as the valves. — Sloane fays it draws its nourifhment 

 from rain water, falling into the cavity made by the 

 leaves. 



17. T. ufneoitles. Long-mofs Tillandfia. Liun. Sp. PI. 

 411. Willd. n. 16. Purfh n. 2. (Vifcum caryophylloides 

 tenuifiimum, e ramulis arborum mufci in modum dependens, 

 foliis pruinse inftar candicantibus, flore tripctalo, femine fila- 

 mentofo ; Sloane Jam. v. i. 191. t. 122. f. 2, 3. Cufcuta 

 ramis arborum innafcens, &c.; Pluk. Phyt. t. 26. f. 5 ; 

 alfo f. 6.) — Stem much branched, thread-fliaped, twilled, 



minutely fcaly, as well as the awl-fliaped channelled leaves 



Native of fliady woods from Virginia to Florida, as alfo of 

 the Weft Indies and the Brafils, flowering in July. The 

 long wiry conturted_y?^m^ creep over the ftems and branches 

 of old trees, and even along a rope or hair line, if put in their 

 way, the roots fcarcely fixing themfelves, or deriving any fuf- 

 tenance, from either. The Jloivers are, according to Mr. 

 Purfli, of a yellowifli-green. When the hoary ftiaggy coat 

 of the plant is feparated by beating or rubbing, the remains 

 of the ftems look like a mafs of curling black horfe-hair, and 

 ferve, like that, to ftuff mattreffes, &c. In this denudated 

 ftate the ftems are reprefented, along with the perfedl plant, 

 by Sloane as well as Plukenet. 



M. Poiret, in Lamarck Dift. v. 7. 666 — 673, has greatly 

 enriched this genus, not only with all the fpecies pubhfhed by 

 Dr. Swartz, and which we likewife have adopted, but alfo 

 with ten befides, adopted from the Flora Peruviana of Ruiz 

 and Pavon. That our work may not be incomplete, we ftiall 

 briefly mention thefe in the order in which M. Poiret has ar- 

 ranged them, trufting to him for the references, which we 

 have not the means of confulting. He introduces them all, 



except the laft, between tiie angiiflifolia, our n. 14, ayd rc^ 

 curxiala, n. 16. 



18. T. tetranlha. Four-flowered Tillandfia. Poiret 

 n. 9. Fl. Peruv. v. 3. 39. t. 265 — Leaves radical, lan- 

 ceolate, imbricated ; recurved at the point. Stem ereft. 



Stalks reflexed, four-flowered Grows on trees and rocks 



in the forells of the Andes, flowering in July and Auguft. 

 — Root of many fibres. Leaves radical, large, fpotted with 

 red. Stems fohtary, rather longer than the leaves, zigzag, 

 clothed with oval, pointed, clofe, fcaly bradeas, of a 

 purpliih rofe-colour ; the upper ones fpreading almoft hori- 

 zontally, each of the latter bearing an axillary y/a//, fiip- 

 porting four, nearly feflTile, Jloivers. Calyx yellow, coria- 

 ceous. Corolla violet. 



19. T. maculata. Spotted-leaved Tillandfia. Poiret 

 n. 10. Fl. Peruv. v. 3. 40. t. 267 — Leaves radical, lan- 

 ceolate-fword-fliaped, Ihining ; revolute at the point. Pa- 

 nicle alternately branched. Spikes nearly fimple, manv- 

 flowercd — Native of rocks and trees, in the middle of the 

 great forefts of the Andes, flowering from July to Septem- 

 ber. The leaves are channelled, poliftied on both fides, co- 

 vered with red or purpliih fpots. Every part of the plant 

 is often red. Stems three feet high, fimple, jointed, witli 

 an oval fcale, or bra&ea, at each joint. Panicle terminal, 

 eighteen inches long, red, compofed of alternate, nearly 

 fimple, fpikes, furnilhed with numerous, oval-lanceolate, 

 pointed braSeas, reddifli as well as the calyx. Corolla violet, 

 fmall. 



20. T. rubra. Red Tillandfia. Poiret n. 1 1 . Fl. 

 Peruv. v. 3. 40. t. 266 — Leaves radical, fword-fhaped, 

 fomewhat pointed. Panicle fimple, fpikes undivided Na- 

 tive of rocks in Peru, flowering in March and April. The 

 leaves are about two feet long, fpreading or recurved ; of a 

 fliining green above ; filvery white beneath. Stems folitary, 

 ereft, two or three feet high ; clothed with flieathing fcales 

 below ; terminating in a ftraight reddifli panicle, compofed 

 of many fimple, alternate, oblong, lanceolate, divaricating 



J'pikes. Bradeas red, pointed, keeled, an inch in length. 

 Flowers imbricated, feffile. Calyx yellowi(h-red» Corolla 

 fmall, violet, with reflexed fegments. 



21. T. parvijlora. Small-flowered Tillandfia. Poiret 

 n. 12. Fl. Peruv. v. 3. 41. t. 269. — Leaves radical, awl- 

 ftiaped, greatly dilated at the bafe. Panicle fimple. Spikes 

 from three to feven. Flowers two-ranked. — On rocks in the 

 forefts of the Andes, flowering from Auguft to 0£lober. 

 Leaves very numerous, from fix to nine inches long, chan- 

 nelled, fpreading, whitifli, clothed with a multitude of mealy 

 fcales. Stims a foot high, flender, fimple, purpliih, with 

 diftant, awl-fliaped, channelled, whitifli, (honjlem-leaves, and 

 oval whitifli bradeas. Flowers fmall, white, alternate, on 

 zigzag partial Ilalks. Capfule almoft eight times as long as 

 the calyx. 



22. T. biflora. Two-flowered Tillandfia. Poiret n. 13. 

 Fl. Peruv. v. 3. 41. t. 268. — Leaves fword-fliaped, acute. 

 Stem racemofe. Flowers in pairs. — Found on the Andes, 

 flowering in Auguft and September. This fpecies is often 

 proliferous. Leaves nearly equal, ftraight, fpreading, 

 ftriated. Stems folitary, fimple, eighteen inches high, covered 

 with lanceolate ic?AjJlieaths, or Jlem-leaves, and terminating 

 in a fimple clujler, fix inches long. Flowers on fliort ftalks, 

 in alternate pairs, furnilhed with elongated, lanceolate, 

 ftriated bradeas, recurved and pale green at their extremity. 

 Capfules yellowifh, an inch long. 



23. T. purpurea. Rofe-coloured Tillandfia. Poiret 

 n. 14. Fl. Peruv. V. 3. 41. t. 270. — Leaves fword-ftiaped, 

 tapering, channelled, recurved, clothed with mealy fcales. 

 Panicle of many fpikes. Flowers two-ranked. — Found on 



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