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plain green or purple spotted on the face, 

 with small brown marginal prickles. The 

 violet flowers, an inch long, are in an 

 ample erect panicle 6 inches long. 



89499. Streptocalyx vallerandi (Carr.) 

 Morren. Bromeliaceae. 



A large tropical epiphyte with a com- 

 pact rosette of about 40 leaves, 3 to 4 

 feet long, bright green above and gray 

 beneath. The violet flowers are in a 

 dense panicle 1 to 2 feet high, with small 

 oblong bright-red bracts. Native to the 

 Amazon Valley. 



89500 to 89507. Tillandsia spp. Bro- 

 meliaceae. 



89500. Tillandsia bulbosa Hook. 



A small scurfy tillandsia, a few 

 inches high, the stem swollen at the 

 base, and much dilated leaves clasp- 

 ing at the base and terete above. The 

 few purple flowers are in short race- 

 mose sj)ikes. Native to the West In- 

 dies and northern South America. 



89501 and 89502. Tillandsia lindeni 

 Kegel. 



An Andean tillandsia with a dense 

 rosette of acuminate-ensiform leaves a 

 foot or more long, longitudinally 

 striped with brown on the back near 

 the base, and bright-blue flowers with 

 petals an inch wide in a compact spike 

 up to 6 inches long. 



89501. Variety intermedia violacea. 



89502. Variety regeliana. A form 

 with longer peduncle, green bracts, 

 and a large white eye on the 

 petals. 



89503. Tillandsia ortgiesiana Morren. 



A Mexican epiphyte with stout subu- 

 late densely white scurfy leaves a foot 

 or more long and pale-violet flowers in 

 a small sessile spike. 



89504. Tillandsia stricta (Beer) 

 Soland. (Anoplophytum strictum 

 Beer). 



The leafly stem of this epiphyte is 

 either short or several inches long. 

 The numerous rigid linear acuminate 

 falcate leaves are 4 to 6 inches long, 

 and the lilac or white flowers are in a 

 simple dense spike an inch long. Na- 

 tive to South America. 



89505. Tillandsia tenuifolia L. 



A small reddish tillandsia with nu- 

 merous erect subulate scurfy leaves, 

 and bluish-violet flowers in small dense 

 spikes. Native to tropical America 

 from Mexico to Brazil. 



89506. Tillandsia vestita Cham, and 

 Schlecht. 



A Mexican tillandsia with a leafy 

 stem 3 or 4 inches long, and rigid sub- 

 ulate densely scurfy leaves about 7 

 inches long. The yellow flowers are 

 in a compact simple spike 1 or 2 inches 

 long. 



89507. Tillandsia sp. 



These plants are suited for growing 

 on the bark of trees. 



89508 to 89521. Vriesia spp. Bromelia- 

 ceae. 



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89508. Vriesia barilleti Morren. 



The 15 to 20 bright-green leaves of 

 this Andean species are lanceolate, 

 thin, and flexible, and over a foot long. 

 The pale-yellow flowers are in a sim- 

 ple dense spike 8 to 12 inches in 

 length. 



89509. Vriesia carinata Wawra (V. 

 brachystachys Kegel). 



The rosette of this species consists 

 of 15 to 20 thin flexible plain-green 

 leaves, 6 to 8 inches long, and the 

 pale-yellow flowers are in a dense 

 spike 2 or 3 inches long. The oblong 

 flower bracts, over an inch long, are 

 bright red at the base and yellow in 

 the upper half. Native to forests in 

 southern Brazil. 



89510. Vriesia ddvaliana Morren. 



The thin strap-shaped leaves of this 

 vriesia, 15 to 20 in number, are 6 

 inches long, green on the face, and 

 tinged with purple beneath. The yel- 

 lowish-green flowers, with petals an 

 inch long, are in a fairly dense spike 

 about 6 inches long. Native to south- 

 ern Brazil. 



89511. Vriesia fulgida Duval. 



A hybrid between Vriesia duvaliana 

 and V. incurvata, distinguished by the 

 brilliant red color of the flowers and 

 the deep-green rosette of the leaves. 



89512. Vriesia hieroglyphica (Carr.) 

 Morren. 



A very showy vriesia with a dense 

 rosette of 30 to 40 stout recurved 

 leaves 2 or 3 feet long, green marked 

 with very conspicuous broad irregular 

 brown-purple transverse bands. The 

 dull-yellow flowers are in a lax panicle 

 over 2 feet long. Native to Brazil. 



89513. Vriesia incurvata Gaud. 



With about a dozen plain-green thin 

 flexible leaves a foot long, this vriesia 

 has greenish-yellow flowers an inch 

 long in a dense spike shorter than the 

 leaves. The lower flower bracts are 

 greenish yellow, the upper ones reddish 

 yellow. Native to southern Brazil. 



89514. Vriesia platynema Gaud. (En- 

 cholirion roseum Hort.). 



A Brazilian epiphyte with 20 to 30 

 thin flexible green leaves up to 3 feet 

 in length, purplish green below. The 

 yellowish-green flowers, with bright- 

 red bracts over an inch long, are in 

 a lax spike up to 2 feet long. 



89515. Vriesia psittacina Lindl. 



The yellowish-green leaves of this 

 species are 6 to 10 inches long, and 

 the large flowers, yellow with green 

 tips, are scattered along a distichous 

 spike about as long as the leaves. The 

 scape and rachis are bright red. The 

 lower bracts are red and the upper 

 ones yellow. Native to southern 

 Brazil. 



89516. Vriesia regina (Veil.) Beer (V. 

 glazioviana Lemaire). 



A very large tillandsialike epiphyte. 

 The plant is sometimes 8 to 10 feet 

 high. The dense rosette is made up 

 of 30 to 50 thin pale-green leaves 3 to 

 4 feet long. The white flowers, with 

 narrow petals 2 to 3 inches long, are 

 in a deltoid panicle 4 to 5 feet long. 

 Native to southern Brazil. 



