; 0 whole plant about a foot high, epiphytic. leaves twelve to fifteen in a sessile rosette, lanceolate acuminate, about a foot long, the dilated base 1 inch, the middle of the lamina ½ inch broad, the face pale green, concave, glabrous upwards, finely thinly lepidote towards the base, the convex back thinly lepidote throughout. inflorescence: peduncle erect, half a foot long, hidden by its linear acuminate falcate leaves. spikes 2, distichous, ½ inch broad, 6–12-flowered, the end one 1½ to 2 inches long, flower-bracts green, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, about 1 inch long. flowers: calyx ¾ inch long, falling a little short of its enveloping bract; its lanceolate glabous sepals free to the base; corolla white, more than twice as; long as the calyx; sepals oblanceolate, with a long claw, not scaled, ¼ inch broad. stamens and style protruded, the longest stamens reaching about ¼ inch beyond the tip of the petals; anther minute, yellow. pistil: style 1½ inch long; stigma spirally twisted.Edited from : Baker 1880c. (protologue) New Garden Plants. Tillandsia (Platystachys) distachya, Baker, n. sp. .