Tas. 7148. 
RHODOSTACHYS anpina. 
Native of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. BroMetiacez.—Tribe Brome. 
Genus Ruopostacuys, Philippi; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 662.) . 
Ruopostacnys andina s acaulis, foliis multis dense rosulatis linearibus rigidis 
falcatis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus facie glabris canaliculatis dorso y 
persistenter albo-lepidotis margine aculeis crebris uncinatis stramineis 
armatis, Horibus in capitulum centralem subsessilem globosum aggregatis, 
bracteis exterioribus ovatis cuspidatis spinoso-serratis, interioribus ob- 
lanceolato-oblongis scariosis, ovario clavato-trigono glabro, calycis seg- 
mentis lanceolatis albis ovario equilongis, petalis lanceolatis rubellis, 
staminibus styloque petalis longioribus. 
R. andina, Phil. in Linnea, vol, xxix. p. 57; Baker Handb, Bromel. p. 28. 
Bromelia longifolia, Lindl. in Paxt. Flor. Gard. vol. ii. p. 139, tab. 65; 
Lemaire Jard. Fleur. t. 223, non Rudge. - 
Ruckia Ellemeti, Regel Gartenfl. 1868, Pp: 65, t. 571. ae 
This very ornamental Bromeliad is an inhabitant of the 
Cordilleras’ of the northern provinces of Chili. It only — 
requires cool treatment, and at Kew is grownin the cactus- _ 
house. It is the plant on which Philippi founded his genus 
lihodostachys, and Regel, a few years later, his genus 
fiuckia. Tt seems to have been introduced into cultivation 
by Mr. Henderson, who exhibited it in flower at one of the 
Shows of the Royal Horticultural Society in August, 1851. 
For a long time it was confounded with the Bromelia 
longifolia of Rudge, which is a native of Guiana, and now 
‘placed in the genus Streptocalye. Our drawing was made 
from a plant which was flowered by F. D. Godman, Esq., 
F.R.S., at his residence near Horsham, in November, 1889, 
and this year we have again received it in flower from 
H. J. Elwes, Esq., of Cirencester. The sketch showing © 
the general habit of the plant was made in Kew Gardens. 
Descr. Acaulescent. 
dense rosette, linear, rigid, recurved, a foot or a as 2 
a half long, an inch broad at the clasping base, . = : 
Inch in the middle, deeply channelled oo Recta 
December Ist, 1890. 
Leaves about a hundred in @ 
