Tas. 5225. 
PUYA WarsZEwIczil. 
Warszewicz’s Puya. 
Nat. Ord. BRoMELIACE®.—HEXANDRIA MonoaGynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tap. 4991.) 
Pura Warszewiczii; foliis 2-3-pedalibus -lato-lanceolatis anguste acuminatis 
striatis subundulatis inferne longe anguste attenuatis canaliculatis basi di- 
latatis amplexantibus supra basin solummodo retrorsum aculeatis, scapo 
inferne foliaceo dein in spicam oblongam terminante dense bracteato, brac- 
teis imbricatis rubro-sanguineis lanceolato-acuminatis flores albo-flavescentes 
superantibus, petalis lineari-spathulatis basi squama apice lacera intructa. 
Pura Warszewiczii. Wendland, in litt. 
This may be reckoned among the handsomest of the many 
handsome tropical Bromeliacee. Its leaves are peculiar, very 
long, and rather flaccid and undulated, singularly narrow and 
contracted and grooved towards the base, and there alone fur- 
nished for about the length of four inches at each margin with 
dark brown reflexed spinules. The contrast is striking between 
the yellowish-white and rather large flowers, and the deep blood- 
coloured, long, acuminated, and imbricated bracteas. We are | 
indebted to Mr. Wendland, of the Royal Gardens, Hanover, for 
the plant here figured, which flowered in our stove, August, 
1860. We do not find it anywhere described, and adopt the 
name by which we received it. It yposed to be a native of 
Guatemala. mes 
Descr. Whole plant two to three feet high. Leaves radical, 
two to three feet long, from a broad amplexicaul base gradually 
narrowing, with involute margin, and there alone spiny with re- 
flexed black prickles, again expanding into a long lanceolate acu- 
minated. blade, nearly three inches in diameter in its widest part, 
subcoriaceous, striated, subundulate, quite entire, dark green, 
paler beneath. Scape shorter than the leaves, leafy below; the 
leaves gradually becoming éracteas upwards, and then bearing a 
large, oblong, densely bracteated spike. Bracteas of a deep rich 
JANUARY IsT, 1861. ae 
