Tillandsia hotteana Urb.

Tillandsia hotteana Urban, Ark. Bot. 17^: 16. 1921
Plant stemless, up to 65 cm. high; leaves many in a dense infundibuliform rosette, 35 cm. long; sheaths broadly elliptic, nearly as long as the blades, densely brown-punctulate, the upper half deep-purple, the lower pale-ferrugineous; blades narrowly triangular, acuminate with the extreme apex subiJate-involute, 4 cm. wide, pale-green with large irregtdar piu-ple spots, obscurely punctulate below, subglabrous above; scape erect, stout; scape-bracts erect, foliaceous, densely imbricate; inflorescence compound, very densely cylindric or subfusiform, 2-3 dm. long, 3-5 cm. in diameter; primary bracts erect, densely imbricate, suborbicular, 5 cm. long exclusive of the blades and exceeding the axillary spikes, subinflated, even or faintly striate, pale-reddisliviolet, the lower ones with strict foliaceous blades up to S cm. long, the upper merely apiculate; spikes sessile, broadly ovate, complanate, densely 2-6-flowered; floral bracts broadly elliptic, acute, up to 3 cm. long, equaling the sepals, ecarinate, subcoriaceous, even, glabrous outside, finely punctulate-lepidote inside; flowers erect; pedicels 2-3 mm. long; sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, even, glabrous outside, connate posteriorly; petals linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 4 cm. long, 7 mm. wide; stamens included.
Type locality: "Morne de la Hotte in montibus Ma Blanche ad arbores regionis Pinorum cr. 1.500 m. alt."
Distkibution: Eastern Cuba and Haiti.