. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2705. Erieeion mucronatus, known in the trade as Vittadinia triloba. iXii.) somewhat glaucous, not spotted': spike with wide- spreading nearly divaricate acuminate bracts which are scarlet at the base and yellowish green at the end: fls. protruding, pale yellow. Brazil. 6014. 2706. Vriesia splendens. psitt
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2705. Erieeion mucronatus, known in the trade as Vittadinia triloba. iXii.) somewhat glaucous, not spotted': spike with wide- spreading nearly divaricate acuminate bracts which are scarlet at the base and yellowish green at the end: fls. protruding, pale yellow. Brazil. 6014. 2706. Vriesia splendens. psittacina, Lindl. {TiUdndsia psittacma., Hook.). About 1 ft. high when in bloom: lvs. rosulate, 6-10 in. long, dilated at the base, yellowish green: fls. large, yellow with green tips, scattered on a distichous spike, the bracts red at the base and yellow at the top. Brazil. 29:10, where the genus is founded. 2841. 1855:221. —A showy species when in bloom. AA. Stamens shorter than the petals. B. Lvs. not barred, niottled or tessellated. heliconioides, Lindl. ( K. MUula, Hort. Tillandsia heliconio'ides, HBK.). Dwarf and tufted, with many rosulate recurving or arching lanceolate lvs. {about 12 in. long), which are bright green above and purple tinged beneath. Scape overtopping the foliage, simple and erect, with wide-spread- ing distichous boat-shaped bracts that are light red at the base and greenish at the tip, showy : fls. white. Colombia. I. H. 30:490. 11. 21:140. BB. Lvs. tessellated {marked in small checker-work) or minutely variegated. tessell^ta, Morr. [TiUdndsia fessclld-ta, Lind.). Lvs. short and rather broad, rosu- late, dilated at base, short-pointed, rather stiff, channeled, tessellated with green and yellow: inflorescence paniculate, the green- ish bracts remote: fls. yellow. Bra- zil. LH. 21:179. 1889, p. 573. fenestralis, Lind. & Andr6 (Til- ld}idsia fcnestrdlis. Hook. f.). Robust, densely tufted, the lvs. stout (1-2 ft. long) and recurv
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