Tillandsia chlorophylla L. B. Sm.

Tillandsia chlorophylla L. B. Smith, sp. nov
Stemless; leaves many in a narrowly crateriform rosette, 5 dm. long, greatly exceeding the inflorescence; sheaths ovate-elliptic, 6 cm. long, green, scarcely darker than the blades, densely and finely appressed-lepidote ; blades linear-triangular, aciuninate, I cm. wide at the base, flat, densely lepidote beneath, soon glabrous above; scape erect, slender, largely hidden by the leaves; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, subfoliaceous but with pink sheaths; inflorescence sublaxly compound from a few simple branches, slenderly pyramidal, 8-12 cm. long; primarj' bracts like the upper scape-bracts, shorter than the axillary spikes but the lower ones with elongate blades exceeding them; spikes divergent to spreading, lance-oblong, complanate, 3-.S cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, 3-6-flowered; floral bracts erect, elliptic, obtuse, over twice as long as the internodes, distinctly shorter than the sepals, ecarinate, chartaceous, nerved, glabrous, pink; flowers subsessile; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 11 nun. long, chartaceous, nerved, glabrous, equally short-connate; petals 25 mm. long, purple; stamens and pistil exserted.
Acaulis; foliis 5 dm. longis, inflorescentiam multo superantibus; vaginis viridibus, quam
laminas haud atrioribus; laminis lineari-triangularibus, 1 cm. latis, subtus dense lepidotis, supra
moi glabris; scapo erecto; scapi vaginis imbricatis; inflorescentia sublaxe composita, 8-12 cm.
longa; bracteis primariis quam spicas axillares brevioribus; spicis lanceolato-oblongis, 3-5 cm.
longis, 3-6-floris; bracteis florigeris ellipticis, obtusis, quam sepala brevioribus, chartaceis,
glabris; sepalis ellipticis, obtusis, 1 1 mm. longis, equaliter brevi-connatis; petalis 25 mm. longis,
purpiu'eis; staminibus styloque exsertis.
Type collected on Monte Santa Teresa, Dept. Petfn, Guatemala, J.undell 2649, in the Gray Herbarium.
Distribution: Guatemala and British Honduras (Schipp S-S04).