Tas. 6600. 
PITCAIRN ITA wvORALLINA, 
Native of New Granada. 
Nat. Ord. Brometracr®.—Tribe Pircatrniex. 
zequilongis. 
Baker in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 272. 
care of Mr. Charles Green. 
JANUARY Ist, 1882, 
Genus Pircartrnia, L’ Herit. ; (Baker in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 225.) 
PircairniA corallina; acaulis, cespitosa, foliis rosulatis, exterioribus rudimentariis 
scariosis integris, centralibus 6-8 productis longe petiolatis lanceolatis acumi- 
natis medio recurvatis plicatis facie viridibus glabris dorso albo-furfuraceis, 
pedunculo cernuo subpedali glabro rubro, racemo pendulo subdenso, pedicellis 
brevibus, bracteis parvis lanceclatis, sepalis lanceolatis splendide rubris, petalis 
lingulatis basi appendiculatis calyce triplo longioribus, genitalibus petalis 
P. corallina, Linden et André; Carriére in Rev, Hort. 1875, p. 321, cum icone ; 
This is a most distinct plant, the finest for decorative 
purposes of all the seventy known species of the genus. Its 
= broad plicate leaves narrowed into a long petiole, and its 
: dense drooping racemes of large spreading flowers, in which 
peduncle, axis, calyx and corolla are all of one brilliant 
Z, coral-red, mark it at a glance from all the other species, 
and stamp it as one of the most effective of all the cultivated 
Bromeliaceze. It was introduced about 1870, by Linden 
from the Andes of the province of Choco, in New Granada. 
It flowered for the first time in Europe with Baron Roths- 
child at Ferrieres near Paris in 1874. Our drawing was 
made from a plant that flowered last spring with Sir George 
Macleay at Pendell Court, near Bletchingley, under the 
Duscr. Acaulescent, densely ceespitose. Leaves rosu- 
late, the outer unproduced ones hard and dry, without any 
marginal spines ; produced leaves six or eight to a rosette, 
with an erect petiole about a foot long, which is margined 
by small decurved horny brown spines, and a lanceolate 
lamina two or three feet in length, three or four inches 
