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PlTCAIRNIA ANGUSTIFOLIA. NaRROW- 

 LEAVED PlTCAIRNIA. 



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Generic Charatler. — Vide No. 1416. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



PlTCAIRNIA angujlifolia ,• (fios irregularis^ obfoletiusfquamiger { ) 

 foliis plurimis, ereclo-divergentibus, ftri&iufculis, anguftius 

 loratis, longius attenuatis, convoluto-concavis, laxius 

 fpinulofo-marginatis, dorfo pellicula pruinofa albicantibus; 

 caule pubefcente, fimplici, fubramofove j racemo laxe 

 multifloro, patulo ; pedicellis villofis, flore aliquoties 

 brevioribus ; bra&ea illis aequali, villofa, convoluto- 

 fubulata, apprefla; calyce villofo; corolla hurtc triplo 

 excedente, laciniis fuperne verfus explicatioribus atque in 

 labium unicum deteclis antheris incumbens diftortis ; 

 fquama brevi, bifida, incurvula, erofula ; filamentis 

 ahernis angulo fmgulo germinis oppofitis fimpliciffimis, 

 mtermediis membrana breviffima tranfverfe extenfa bi- 

 finuato-repanda infitis; antheris lineari-elongatis; ftigmatibus 

 in lobum contortis. G. 



PlTCAIRNIA angujlifolia. Hort. Krjc. 1. 401. cd, 2. 2. 202. 

 IVilld. Sp. PI. 2. 10. Specimen archetypum ex Hort. Kew. in 

 Herb. Bank/l 



(&) Specimen ex Infula SanBae Crucis in Herb. Bankf. G. 



p ITCAIRNIA angujiifolia. Lil. a Redoute. tab. 76. 



Our plant is evidently the fame with the fpecimen from which 

 l »e fpecies was inftituted ; but it does not feem to agree fo 

 exactly with the fpontaneous one depofited along with that in the 

 Jpnkfian Herbarium ; this had been brought from the I (land of 

 kanta Cruz, by Mr. Ryan, in 1777 j and is certainly the fame 

 w "h the plant given by Redoute; which feems to differ from 

 °urs in having narrower leaves, fhorter flowers, and larger and 

 "jore confpicuous flower-fcales. But as thofe who firft recorded 

 * he fpecies have deemed our plant the fame with that introduced 

 °Y Mr. Ryan, and of courfe with his fpecimen, it is very 



probable 



