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TAB. 6495.
TILLANDSIA MALZINEI.
Native of Mexico.
Nat. Ord. BROMéLIACéE.•Tribe TILLANDSIEE.
lenus TILLANDSIA, Linn.; {Schulte's Syst. Veg. vol. vii. p. Ixvi. and 1199.)
TILLANDSIA (Conostachys) Malzinei; acaulis, foliis basalibus 15-20 dense roralatia
loratis falcatis chartaceis subpedalibus nullo modo lepidotis apice deltoideo-
cuspidatis facie viridibus dorso rubro-brunneis verticaliter lineatis, pedúnculo
stricto erecto foliis breviori foliis reductis pluribus lanceolatis falcatis prredito,
floribus 12-20 in spicam strictam subdensam multifariam disposito, bracteis
magnis glabris ovatis navicularibus luteis vel rubris, pedicellis brevibus crawis,
calyce protruso glabro sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis lingulatis obtusis albidis
calyce duplo longioribus basi squamatis, genitalibus petalis paulo brevioribus,
antheris parvis luteis versatilibus.
T. Malzinei, Baker in Kew Gard. Report, 1878, p. 59.
Vriesea Malzinei, JE. Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xxiv. (1874), p. 313, tab. 14.
The present species represents the section Conostachys
of the large genus Tillandsia, which is characterized by its
scaled petals and multifarious spikes, and is the first species
of that section which has been figured in the BOTANICAL
MAGAZINE. It was discovered about the year 1870 in the
neighbourhood of Cordova, in Mexico, by the Belgian
gentleman after whom it is named, M. Orner de Malzinc,
and was first flowered in cultivation by M. Jacob Makoy,
of Liege, in 1872. The excellent figure in the Belgique
Horticole above cited represents a variety with red bracts.
In our plant, which flowered at Kew in April, 1879, the
bracts are yellow.
DESCE. Acaulescent. Leaves fifteen or twenty in a dense
rosette, lorate, about a foot long, three inches broad at the
dilated base, an inch and a half or two inches at the middle,
falcate, chartaceous in texture, not at all lepidote, the apex
deltoid cuspidate, the face bright green, the back red-
brown with fine vertical lines. Peduncle simple, rather
shorter than the leaves, stiffly erect, with several falcate
MAY 1ST, 1880.