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TILLANDSIA flexuosa; y. pallida. 
Flexuose Tillandsia; pale-flowered variety. 
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Nat, ord. BRoMELIR. Sect. J. Germen superum. Juss. gen. 50. — 
TILLANDSIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 105. _ 
T. flexuosa spicis laxis flexuosis, floribus distichis remotiusculis, fo 
‘ ceolato-linearibus reclinatis, caule apice subdiviso. Swartz prod 
Ji. ind. occ. 1. 590, Willd. sp. pl. 2.12. Ait. Kew. ed. 2%, 2. 
nm. 1. 345, ; E 
B. fasciata; foliis fasciatis. : 
T. tenuifolia, foliis lineari subulatis integerrimis imbricatis, spica ‘simplici 
laxa.. Jacq. amer. 92. t. 63. Berne: 
y. pallida, floribus pallidis, spica sub simplici. ee 
~  Parasitica. Radices filiformes, longi, rigidi. Folia plerumque radica- 
lia, lanceolato-linearia, basi latiora, sessilia, ventricosa, amplectentia, mar- 
gine integra, laxa, apice reclinata, striata, membranacea, ‘subtus viridi- 
exalbida, subtomentosa, v. farinosa, ex squamis minutissimis peltatis medio 
excavatis margine hyalino striato cinctis, oculo armato distinguendis. Cau- 
lis v. Scapus polis longior, 2-3 pedalis, laxus, teres, vaginatus, vaginis al- 
ternis, lanceolatis, acutis, rubris, inferioribus in foliola linearia desinentibus: 
apice subdivisus, spicis terminatus. Spice 2 v.38, solitarie, longe, laxe, 
rachibus triquetris, flecuosis, flosculis alternis, distichis, remotiusculis. Brac- 
tex v. Spathe 1-phylle, lanceolate, concave, striate, cincte. Calyx 3- 
partitus, basi trigonus, persistens, laciniis erectis, coloratis. Petala 3, li- 
nearia, calyce longiora, apice reflexa, coccinea, v. carulea. Filamenta 6, 
alterna parum breviora, receptaculo inserta, filiformia, longitudine feré pe- 
talorum. Anthere ovate, basi bifide, albide. Germen ovatum, trigonum. 
Stylus filiformis. Stigma 3-jidum. Capsula elongata, cylindracea, acu- 
minata, trigona, 3-carinata, 3-locularis, 3-valvis, intus nitida, nigra. Se- 
mina papposa. Pappus capillaris, lutescens. Swartz 1. c. 
We have placed this TiuuaNnpsia provisionally only as a 
variety of flecuosa, because, although it is probable that it 
may be a distinct species, we, not having seen while in 
flower the plant from which our drawing was made, are 
not prepared to point out its distinguishing characters. 
T. flecuosa must either be a very variable plant, or more 
species than one are already included in it by those 
who have described the wild subject; to say nothing of 
Jacquin’s T. tenuifolia, which is referred hither by Swartz 
and other botanists. The last-mentioned writer says, the 
Jamaica plant varies with scarlet and blue flowers! Jac- 
- quin’s plant has leaves banded like those of some species of 
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