Tas. 4775. 
PITCAIRNIA tonerrorta. 
Long-leaved Pitcairnia. 
Nat. Ord. BromEeLi1acem.—HExanpria Monoaynla. 
Gen. Char, (Vide supra, Tas. 4241.) 
Pircatrn1a longifolia; caule erecto elongato simplici dense annulato, foliis 
longissimis (4-pedalibus) e lata basi amplexante striato pubescente lanceo- 
latis acuminatissimis supra basin insigniter attenuatis viridibus spinuloso- 
ciliatis, panicule terminalis ramis racemosis, floribus secundis, pedicellis 
bracteolatis, sepalis subulatis viridibus corolla coccinea triplo brevioribus, 
petalis convolutis coccineis apicibus unilateralibus basi intus squamosis, sta- 
minibus styloque subexsertis corolla paulo brevioribus. 
marked species of Pitcairnia, which was 
received from Lima, in 1852, through Mr. William Nation ; rea- 
dily distinguished by the elongated stem or caudex, more than 
an inch thick, annulated by the closely-placed bases of the 
former year’s leaves, and the much-divided panicle of red flowers 
with green calyces. From P. Jacksoni (see our Tab. 4540) it 
is easily known by the tall stem above alluded to, the very long, 
spiny leaves, smaller flowers, green subulate calyces, compound 
or paniculated raceme; but near which it must rank in any 
system. It is a handsome species, and flowered in our stove in 
December, 1853. 
Descr. Our plant has a stem or caudex a span or more high, 
three inches in circumference, scarred with transverse lines, 
whence the leaves have fallen, but above clothed with the 
withered dases of old leaves. From the summit a spreading 
tuft of pale-green coriaceous leaves, of great length (often four 
feet long), appears; they are between lanceolate and sword- - 
shaped, acuminated to a very slender point, towards the base 
gradually and very much contracted, and then carinated ; at the 
setting on upon the stem dilated into a broad, concave, sheath- 
Ing, striated, amplexicaul or semiamplexicaul base, for the whole 
APRIL Isr, 1854. | 
