Tab. 7607. 

 CORTADEHIA Jubata, Stapf. 



Native of the Andes-. 



Nat. Ord. Gkamine/E.— Tribe Auuxdine^e. 

 Gonus Coataderia; (Stapf in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. ii. p. 396.) 



CoRTADEaiA jubata; gramen perenne, culmia validia dense coeapitoaia 

 biannuia, internodiis aupremia ultra pedalibua, foliia ba^in veraua 

 culmum congestis ^-poll. latia tenuisaime caudato-acuminatia, ligula e 

 pilis sericeia, panicula plumoaa 1-2-pedali laxiusculaaub-erecta v. nutante, 

 ramia inferioribua 1-li-pedalibus gracillimia flexnosia, apiculia unisexua- 

 libua nitidia purpureo aubtiliter tinctia, glumia vacuia sub-aequalibua 

 anguste linearidanceolatia apicibua acutis v. bidenticulatia 1-nerviis 

 nervo infra apicem evanido, glumis floriferis vacnia anb-aimilibua 3-nerviia, 

 masculis glabria, fern, copioae et longe piloaia, pilis £ poll, longia, 

 palea brevi hyalina 2-nervi, lodicnlia ciliatis, staminodiia fl. fem. gracilibus 

 apicibua antheriferia v. clavellatia, ovario glabro, caryopside anguate 

 oblonga hilo lineari. 



G. jubatum, Lemoine ex Carr. in Rev. JETorl. vol. xlix. p. 419. 

 G. roaenm Rendatleri, The Garden, vol. viii. p. 165 (nomeri). 

 ?G. argenteum carminatnm Rendatleri, Flore des Sevres, t. 2075. Chron. 

 1874, p. 419. 



To those who know Gi/nerium sacckaroides, Humb. & 

 Bonpl. (Tab. Nostr. 7352) it will be no surprise to learn 

 that the Pampas Grass of our gardens has been removed 

 from that genus. This has been done by Dr. Stapf, in the 

 Gardener's Chronicle cited above, where the name Gorta- 

 deria is given to the Pampas Grass and its congeners, 

 from their being known as " Cortadora " by the Spanish- 

 speaking people of America. The species of Cortaderia 

 are confined to the Andes from Ecuador to Chili, 

 together with New Zealand, if the Arundo consjdaui, 

 Forst. f. be included. Other species are G. argentta, 

 Stapf (the Pampas Grass, which is, however, not a native 

 of the Pampas, but of the Cordillera), G. chiloensis, Stapf : 

 G. speciosa, Stapf (G. speciosum, Nees), and G. Qnila 

 Stapf. 



Cortadenia jubata is a native of the Andes of Ecuador, 



Bolivia, and Peru. It was first collected about 1830, by 



the late Col. Hall, the energetic explorer of Ecuador, in 



ravines near Quila, alt. 10,000 ft. It was introduced into 



August 1st, 1898. 



