alone, produced its truly delicate and beautiful flowers in the 
month of November of the present year, 1824. 
I cannot find the character of any Tillandsia that will ac- 
cord with this plant. At the same time, it must be observed, 
that the descriptions of most authors being taken from dried 
specimens, and at a period when comparatively few species were 
known, must be in a great measure imperfect and unsatisfac- 
tory. 
The stoves of the gardens, both of Liverpool and Glasgow, 
are, we believe, peculiarly rich in plants of this family, which 
have been principally derived from the kindness of the Baron 
de Shack. By means of these collections, we trust that it will 
be in our power to illustrate several species of this curious ge- 
nus, which till lately had been supposed, like the parasitic Or- 
chidece, to be almost incapable of cultivation in the European 
gardens. 
Fig. 1. Flower seen from the posterior side. Fig. 2, 2. Calyx. Fig. 3. 
Stamen. Fig. 4. Anther, Fig. 5. Tip of the style and stigma. — All 
more or less magnified. 
