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PITCAIRNIA bromeliaefolia. 
Pine-Apple-leaved Pitcairnia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOG YNIA. 
Nat. ord. BromeliacejE. 
PITCAIRNIA, L’Herit .— Calyx inferus duplex uterque tripartitus; 
interior corollaceus; laciniis basi squama instructs. Capsula trigona, tri- 
locularis; loculis polyspermis. Semina nuda.-Caulis hcrbaceus, erectus, 
simplex. Folia angusta, spinosa. Flores spicati, bracteati. Kunth. synops. 
P. bromelicefolia ; foliis ciliato-spinosis, pedunculis germinibusque glaberri- 
mis. Ait. Kew. 1. 401. Willd. sp. pi. 2. 10. 
P. bromeliaefolia, L’Herit. sert. angl. 7. t. 11. Swartz, ind. occ. 1. 580. 
Bot. mag. 824. 
Hepetis angustifolia. Swartz, prodr. 56. 
A handsome stove plant, in its native country growing 
in shady places among rocks and precipices in the island 
of Jamaica. Our drawing was made in the Garden of 
Henry Bellenden Ker, Esq., in the summer of 1825. 
Not having had an opportunity of examining specimens, 
we are unable to give a description of the plant. 
J. L. 
