Tillandsia paniculata (L.) L.

Tillandsia ekmanii Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart Berlin 11: 59. 1930.
TiUandsia magna Ekman & Harms; Ekman, Ark. Bot. 23A': 16. 1930. Not T. magna Baker, 1889.
Plant very large; leaves 5-6 dm. long, very densely and minutely appressed-lepidote; sheaths very broadly ovate, 13-16 cm. long; blades acuminate, subpungent, 9-11 cm. wide; inflorescence amply paniculate, 3 m. long, 2-3-pinnate or possibly even 4-pinnate; lower primary bracts broadly vaginiform with a cuspidate-acuminate apex, the upper ovate-oblong or broadly lanceolate, obtuse, 25-30 mm. long; spikes 4-5 dm. long, laxly flowered, with 3 or 4 sterile bracts at base; rhachis comparatively slender, nearly straight or slightly flexuous, subglabrous; floral bracts ovate-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 25 mm. long or longer, subcoriaceous, minutely lepidote or subglabrous; flowers erect and appressed to the rhachis; pedicels very short and stout; sepals narrowly lance-oblong, appearing acute but obtuse when expanded, 25-27 mm. long; petals narrow, 5—6 cm. long, pale-green with whitish midrib; stamens long-exserted; capstile slender, 5-6 cm. long; seeds slenderly fusiform, 2-2.5 mm. long, with a coma 30-35 mm. long and an apical appendage 5-10 mm. long.
TvPB LOCALITY: Montagnes du Trou d'Eaii, Morne k Cabrils, Bois d'Orme, Haiti, altitude 500 meters.
Distribution: Haiti.