160. BILLBERGIA MACROLEPSIS. This Panamanian species with the pendant in- 
florescence is a meter long. The plant has the form of a tall, slender tube, and is gray- 
green, marked with large white spots. Not commonly in cultivation. 
162. BILLBERGIA x WINDII. This cross between decora and amoena is one of the 
best small Billbergias and flowers much of the time. 
164. BROMELIA BALANSAE. Formerly B. serra. Hardy in Southern California. A great 
plant, it has long narrow leaves with severely sharp and hooked spines along the mar- 
gins. When in flower the central portion of the rosette turns bright red. The in- 
florescence rises as a white, powdery, wax-like column, into which are imbedded, in 
striking contrast, Numerous maroon tubular flowers with white-tipped petals. 
166. BROMELIA BALANSAE VARIEGATA. Much like the last, except that the green 
leaves are edged with a white and become suffused with red at time of flowering. 
This is a valuable, spectacular plant. 
168. CANISTRUM ROSEUM. We grew this plant before the Second World War from 
seeds received from the famous and since destroyed horticultural establishment of 
Louis Dutrie in Belgium. The genus is closely allied to, and sometimes thrown with, 
Nidularium. C. roseum is a noble plant. The great rosette of green leaves mottled with 
brown spots grows beneath a small rosette of rose-colored leaves that extends out 
from a Neoregelia-like circle of flowers. Brazil. 
170. CANISTRUM INGRATUM x ROSEUM. This plant can be grown with leaves 30 
inches in length that form an impressive rosette 48 inches in diameter and 24 inches 
in height. The leaves are mottled with brown. The floral rosette is a red-mahogany 
color. An accent plant for any tropical setting. 
172. GREIGIA SPHACELATA. A hardy terrestrial that produces many rosettes from 
root-stocks. The numerous leaves are flat, narrow, and spiny. The beauty of the plant 
is in its brilliant red center of leaves during inflorescence. 
174. GUZMANIA BERTERONIANA. Many leaves in a dense rosette. A handsome plant 
with scapebracts of dark red. Puerto Rico. 
176. GUZMANIA LINGULATA VAR. SPLENDENS. Mez. This is a red-leaved form, 
and is also known as Guzmania Peacockii. An outstanding plant. It has under-leaves of 
bright purple-red and upper leaves of reddish-green. The plant is two feet in diameter. 
From the rosette rises a vertical spike that terminates in a funnel-shaped rosette, all! 
of purple-red. The small bracts in the center of this cluster are yellowish and tipped 
with white. 
178. GUZMANIA MAGNIFICA. The most beautiful species of this genus that we have 
seen. The many delicate green leaves comprise a plant with a diameter of 20 inches. 
From the center a green spike suffused with red rises to a height of 7 inches. The 
spike terminates in a flat star, 6 inches in diameter, with 20 pointed leaves of clear, 
brilliant scarlet that stand out against the green of the plant and the white petals 
of the flowers. The beauty of this plant is breath-taking. 
180. GUZMANIA MONOSTACHIA. Many slender, light-green leaves form a dense 
rosette. The spike, with its many white flowers, rises high above the leaves. The floral 
bracts are both brown-striped and 
bright red. 
182. GUZMANIA NICARAGUENSIS. 
A medium sized plant with thin, lon- 
gitudinal red stripes against the green 
leaves. A red cone of bracts forms 
first in the heart of the rosette from 
which the spike breaks. A rarity. 
184. GUZMANIA RUTILANS x LI- 
BERSI. This European novelty has 
long, slender leaves with a purplish 
suffusion and a faint mottling. We 
have not seen it in flower. 
186. GUZMANIA ZAHNII. A gem 
of the plant world. The numerous, 
slender, green leaves are striped with 
dark red. When the many-clustered 
branches of the vivid yellow inflor- 
escence emerge, the plant is ‘’blush- 
ing,’ and the center of the rosette of 
leaves is suffused with red. From 
the slopes of Chiriqui Volcano, Pan- 
Guzmania Zahnii ama. 
