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BROMELIADS— (Continued) 
BILLBERGIA euphemia (Brazil), tubular plant with deep green 
leaves, gray cross-bands; pink bracts WAHFD # 206 
BILLBERGIA horrida (Brazil), fluted, stiff brown leaves with 
pronounced silver cross-bands, red inflorescence and blue 
flowers WAHEFD # 207 
BILLBERGIA irridifolia concolor (Brazil), gray-green, recurved 
leaves powdered silver, pink pendant bracts, yellow flowers 
WAHFD #208 
BILLBERGIA leptopoda (Brazil), Permanent Wave Plant; deep 
green wavy leaves, powdered gray WAHFD #209 
BILLBERGIA macrocalyx (Brazil), stiff gray-green tubes with 
silver bands WAHFD #210 
BILLBERGIA meyeri (Brazil), tall, tubular, slender bronzy-gray 
foliage with gray blotches and bands, tips gracefully recurved, 
greenish spider flowers WAHFD #211 
BILLBERGIA nutans (Brazil), Queens Tears; narrow, silvery 
bronze foliage, weeping rose bracts with greenish flower, 
edged purple WAHFD #212 
BILLBERGIA pallescens (Brazil), gray-green leaves, upper part 
of which bend away from closed tube WAHFD #213 
BILLBERGIA pyramidalis (Peru), vase-shaped, papery, light, 
green foliage, blue flowers in red truss WAHFM #214 
BILLBERGIA saundersii (Brazil), green, tubular foliage, dif- 
fused with pink and ivory blotches, spike with pendant blue 
flowers and dark red bracts WAHFD #217 
BILLBERGIA saundersii Hybrids, Rainbow Plant; bronzy or 
variegated bayonet-like foliage, crimson bracts with pendant 
red and indigo flowers WAHFD #218 
BILLBERGIA thyrsoidea (Brazil), broad foliage of friendly 
green; red bracts with blue flowers, robust WAHFD #219 
BILLBERGIA vittata (Brazil), fluted, deep green with silver 
cross-bands WAHFD #220 
BILLBERGIA zebrina (Brazil), tall fluted gray foliage, with 
silver zebra bands on outside, black thorns WAHFD #221 
BILTANTHUS beuckeri (Billbergia x Cryptanthus hybrid) ; 
dainty green, mottled bronze, narrow pointed foliage 
WAHFD #222 
BROMELIA serra yariegata ((balansae) (Brazil), Heart of 
Flame; large thorny but attractive plant, broad white mar- 
gins, scarlet bracts, maroon flowers WPHFD 223 
GUZMANNIA (Caraguata) lingulata splendens (Peacocki) 
(Colombia), glossy lavender-pink foliage with purple pencil 
stripes from base WAHFD 224 
CATOPSIS floribunda (Puerto Rico), pea-green leaves tapering 
sharply, white flowers WAHFD #225 
CRYPTANTHUS acaulis (Brazil), small rosettes, gray green, 
dusted silver WAHFD #226 
CRYPTANTHUS acaulis diversifolius (Brazil), heavy silvery 
leaf to 10 in. long WAHFD #227 
CRYPTANTHUS acaulis ruber (Brazil), small rosettes, dark 
bronze dusted beige WAHFD #228 
CRYPTANTHUS beuckeri (S. Brazil) , spoon-shaped, dark green 
leaves, marbled pale green WAHFD #229 
CRYPTANTHUS bivittatus (Brazil), large flat species, two 
pale green transverse bands on pinkish bronze leaf 
WTHFD #230 
CRYPTANTHUS bromeloides (terminalis) (Brazil), upright, 
loose rosette, glowing bronzy green WAHFD #231 
CRYPTANTHUS bromeloides tricolor; a strikingly variegated 
plant with several length stripes of ivory white on friendly 
green, over-laid with carmine rose WAHFD #232 
CRYPTANTHUS lacerdae (Silver Star), emerald green with 
silver white stripe along center and edge of leaves 
WAHFD #233 
CRYPTANTHUS osyanus (Brazil), flat pink and copper foliage, 
mottled warm green WAHFD #234 
CRYPTANTHUS (bivittatus) roseus pictus; flat reddish star 
with rosy stripes WAHFD #235 
CRYPTANTHUS rubescens; dark brown, broad leaves dusted 
gray WAHFD #236 
CRYPTANTHUS zonatus zebrinus; Zebra Plant, bronzy 
brown, wavy leaf with pronounced silver cross-banding, strik- 
ingly beautiful WAHFD #237 
CRYPTANTHUS zonatus (Brazil), brownish green with tan 
tiger banding WAHFD #238 
DYCKIA fosteriana (Brazil), dense clustering rosette of silvery 
purple leaves WAHFM #239 
DYCKIA leptostachys (Brazil), long tapering foliage 
WAHFM #240 
