Tas. 6480. 
PITCAIRNIA ANDREANA. 
Native of Venezuela and New Granada. 
Nat. Ord. Bromren1aces.—Tribe PrtcarRNIEZ. 
Genus Pircarrnta, L’Herit.; (K. Koch in Walp. Ann, vol. vi. p. 78). 
Prrcarrn1a Andreana ; acaulis, foliis basalibus rosulatis, exterioribus rudimentariis 
nullo modo spinosis, interioribus productis 4-6 loratis acutis integris pedalibus 
vel sesquipedalibus facie viridibus conspicue albo-lepidotis dorso subtiliter per- 
sistenter albo-lepidotis, pedunculo brevi lepidoto foliis paucis consimilibus 
reductis predito, racemo simplici compacto paucifloro, pedicellis brevibus 
ascendentibus, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, sepalis lanceolatis viridibus tenuiter 
lepidotis, petalis oblanceolatis obtusis splendide rubro-luteis calyce triplo longi- 
oribus, genitalibus petalis aquilongis. 
P. Andreana, Linden in Ill. Hort. New Series, vol. xx. $. 139. 
P. lepidota, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. ii. p. 435. 
This new Pitcairnia is remarkable in the genus for its 
dwarf habit, broad entire mealy leaves, and simple close 
raceme of very large bright-coloured flowers, which shade 
off from scarlet to bright yellow. -One of its nearest allies 
is P. flavescens, figured Bot. Mag. tab. 6318, a species which 
I find by comparison with an authenticated example kindly 
lent to us by the late Dr. Karl Koch, to be identical with 
the earlier-named P. zanthocalyz of Martius. The present 
plant was introduced by Linden in 1872 from the province 
of Choco in New Granada, and about the same time was 
sent home from Venezuela by Roezl. Our drawing was 
made from a specimen that flowered at Kew in July, 1879, 
which was received from Dr. Regel. 
Duscr. Whole plant under a foot high. Leaves aggre- 
gated in a basal rosette, the outer undeveloped ones 
entirely without spines on the edge, the inner developed 
ones not more than four or six, lorate, chartaceous in 
texture, acute, a foot or a foot and a half long, an inch or 
an inch and a half broad at the middle, narrowed to about 
a third of an inch above the base, the face green, scattered 
MARCH Ist, 1880. 
