Handbook of the Bromeliaceae / [John Gilbert Baker].

  • John Gilbert Baker
Date:
1889
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    orbicular, an incli broad, bright blue. Stamens not longer than the calyx. Hab. Andes of Western and Central Peru. Gathered by Wallis and first shown by Linden at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. For garden purposes it is tbe finest of all the Tillandsias. Vars. intermedia, luxuriams and nuijor are garden forms. Var. liegeliuna E. Morren {T. Lindeniana Hegel Gartenfl. t. 619 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5850)has a longer peduncle than the type, green bracts and a large while eye to the petal-limb. Var. tricolor Andre, from the western slope of Chim- borazo, is a fine form with red bracts and a white eye to the petals. 235. T. Ii.\MALEANA E. MoiTcn in Gard. Chron. 18G9, ii. 4G0. T. pliitiipetala Baker in Journ. Bot. 1888, 4G. Wallisia Hamaleana E. Morren in Belg. Hort. 1870. 97, t. 5. Phytarhiza Hamaleana E. Morren.—Acaulescent. Leaves 15-20, densely rosulate, lorate, acute, thin, green, subglabrous, a foot or more long, 1-1^ in. broad at the middle. Peduncle 9-12 in. long; bract-leaves many, small, adpressed, scariose. Inflorescence a short congested panicle, com- posed of 4-6 dense distichous spikes 2-3 in. long, an inch broad; branch-bracts small, ovate ; flower-bracts green, oblong, acute, glabrous, fin. long. Calyx as long as the bract; sepals oblong. Petal-blade orbicular, f in. broad, bright blue with a white eye. Stamens shorter than the calyx. Hab. Andes of Ecuador; Cordillera of Cisn6. First gathered by Hartweg. Introduced into cultivation by Wallis. First shown by Linden at l*aris in 1867. Named after M. Cannart d’Hamale. T. nvibellata, Andre in Rev. Hort. 1886, 60, with coloured figure (Ecuador Poortman 469), is, I believe, a form of this species, 236. T. Dyeriana Andre Enum. 8.—Leaves 10-15 in a rosette, lorate from a dilated base, obtuse, obscurely cuspidate, 6-8 in. long, under an inch broad, flat, finely lepidote, blotched with violet. Peduncle slender, 1-1| ft. long; bract-leaves spaced out, linear-oblong. Spike 4-6 in. long, sublax, usually simple; bracts scarlet, thin, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, above an inch long, spreading horizontally. Calyx rather shorter than the bract; sepals oblong, imbricated, finely lepidote. Petals white; limb small, orbicular. Stamens shorter than the calyx. Hab. Central Andes of Ecuador, Andre 4256. Subgenus 10. Vriesea (Lindl.). 237. T. trinitensis Baker.—Leaves thin, flexible, subglabrous, lorate, obtuse, 2f ft. long, 1^-2 in. broad at the middle. Peduncle 2-3 ft. long; bract leaves many, all small, adpressed, scariose. Inflorescence a simple moderately dense spike 6-8 in. long, with all the flowers ascending; flower-bracts ovate, acute, reddish, nearly an inch long. Calyx not longer than the bract. Petals not seen. Hab. Trinidad, Fendler 820 ! 238. T. heliconioides H. B. K. Nov. Gen. i. 284. Vriesea heliconioides Lindl.; E. Morren in 111. Hort. n. s. t. 490; Antoine Brom. 11, t. 8; Gard. Chron. 1884, ii. 140, fig. 26. P. bellida &nd V. Falkenhergii Hort. T. disticha Willd. Platystachys disticha Beer. — Leaves 16-20 in a rosette, lanceolate from an ovate base p 2