Tab. 7175. 

 PITCAIRNIA Roezlii. 



Native of South America. 



Nat. Ord. Broheliace.e. — Tribe Pitcaienie^:. 

 Genus Pitcairnia, L'Herit.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL, vol. iii. p. 665.) 



Pitcairnia Roezlii; acaulis, foliis distincte petiolatis laaceolatis chartaceis 

 integria facie viridibus dorso tenuiter albido-lepidotis, pedunculoerecto 

 elongato, floribus splendide rubris in racemum simplicem subdensum 

 dispositis, pedicellis ascendentibus, bracteis magnis lanceolatis, sepalia 

 lanceolatis, petalis calyce 2-3-plo longioribus basi haud appendiculatis, 

 genitalibus petalis subsequilongis. 



P. Eoezlii, E. Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xxxv. (1885) p. 285, tab. 18-19 ; 

 Baker Ifandb. Bromel. p. 106. 



There is a large number of Pitcairnias with red flowers 

 which resemble one another closely both in habit and 

 characters. The present plant, which has only been intro- 

 duced into cultivation within the last ten years, is one of 

 the finest of them. It is marked by its distinctly-petioled 

 comparatively broad leaves and long simple racemes of 

 bright scarlet flowers, which remain in perfection for a 

 long time. It was one of the last Bromeliads that were 

 described and figured by the late Professor Edouard Morren. 

 Like so many other garden plants there is some doubt as 

 to its exact native country. Professor Morren thought 

 that he had received it through M. Binot from the Organ 

 Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. Our plant was sent from 

 Caracas to Herr F. Worlie, of Hamburgh, and by him 

 given to Dr. Goeze, of the Botanic Garden at Greifswald, 

 in Pomerani-i. Dr. Goeze presented a plant to the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, and from this, when it flowered last 

 autumn, our drawing was made. It has also been sup- 

 posed to have been gathered in the Andes of Peru by 

 Roezl, after whom it was named. 



Descr. Acaulescent. Leaves about a dozen in a tuft, 

 with a channelled petiole six or nine inches long, and an 

 entire recurving chartaceous blade two or three feet long, 



May 1st, 1891. 



