; 0 several plants were seen, all with a uniform dull wine-maroon color on the outside of the leaves and a dull green color on the inner side; 1 from the center of the plant rises a flowering spike, whose flattened bracts have a russet bronze coloring; 2 although the general habit of the spike and the shape and size of the flowering bracts are similar to those of vriesea splendens var; 3 splendens, the coloring of the leaves is completely different from the striped effect of gray and green or purple and green of var; 4 splendens, known in venezuela as "tigre" or'jaguar" plant; 5 it appears appropriate to the authors to furnish this distinct variety with the following description.Edited from : Bromel. Soc. Bull. 17: 53.. (1967)