Tab. 4;309. 
PUYA Altensteinii ; var. gigantea. 
Altemteins JPuya; gigantic variety. 
Nat. Ord. BEOMELiACEiE.—H exandeia Monogynia. 
Gen, Char. Perigonii liberi sexpartiti lacinia exteriores calycina, sequales, 
subconvolutse, interiores petaloidea, inferne convolutse, apice patentim reflexae 
marcescendo spiraliter convolutse. Stamina 6 hypogyna; filnmenta siibulata, 
anthercB inciimbentes, lineares, basi emargijiatae. Ovaritim liberum, trigonum, 
triloculare. Ovula plurima, in loculorum angido centrali biseriata, horizontalia, 
anatropa. Stylus filiformis; stigmata 3, linearia, spiraUter contorta. Capsula 
cartilaginea, pyramidato-trigona, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvig. Semina plunma, 
compressa, hiuc auguste membranaceo-marginata.—Herb* in America tropica 
et australi extratropica monticolee, caule simplid interdum subarhoreo folioso, 
foliis angustis spinosis, spicis hracteatis solitariis v. paniculatis. Pndl. 
PUYA Altensteinii ; caule brevi erecto, foliis inermibus distichis an^stis longis- 
simis arcuato-pendulis acuminatis nervosis integerrimis aridis margine 
undulatis in petiolo conduplicato-eqiutantia attenuatis, spica solitaria pe- 
dunculata strobiliformi, bracteis inferioribus fobaceis lanceolato-acuininatis 
basi semi-amplexantibus superioribus amoene puniceis oblongo-acutis con- 
cavis enerviis sessilibus erectis, floribus sessilibus candidis longe exsertis, 
foliobs perianthb versus apicem ocliraceis, staminibus aequbongis. 
PuYA Altensteinii. Link, Kl. et Otto, Ic. PI. Par. Berol. v. 1. 1. 1. 
PiTCAiRNiA undulatifoba. Hortulan. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4241. 
^.gigantea-, 5-6-pedalis, Mbs spica triple majoribus. 
Some time ago, we received at the Royal Gardens of Kew a 
plant, under the name of “ Pitcairnia undulatifolia, which 
was published at Tab. 4241 of the present work. The same was 
afterwards sent from Berlin under the name of Puya Alten¬ 
steinii *: those two plants were identical, and our figure above 
quoted represents as accurately the one as the other. In the 
spring of the present year, 1847, we were astonished by the 
splendour of a plant, liberally presented to the Gardens by 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of the Exeter Nursery, of so 
* Let it be observed, too, that the figure, in Link, Klotzsch, and Otto s 
‘ leones ’ above quoted, is as dwarfish as, and in every respect resembles, the 
Bot. Mag. representation of Pitcairnia undulatifolia. 
JULY 1st, 1847. 
