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PiITcaAIRNIA STAMINEA, ~ Lone- 
STAMENED PITCAIRNIA. 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 3-partitus, inferus, persistens. Petala 3; squama 
nectarifera ad basin petalorum (nunc deficiens). Stigmata 
3, contorta. Caps. 3, introrsum dehiscentes. Semina 
alata, aut utrinque in setam longam terminata. 
Specific Character. 
Prrcarrnia staminea ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis, 
laciniis corolla revolutis, staminibus corolla longio- 
ribus. 
Pircarrnia staminea. Lodd. Cab. 773. 
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. Descr. Leaves \inear lanceolate, two feet long, sharp 
_ pointed, quite entire, with a smooth margin. Scape rising 
from the centre of the leaves, four feet long, jointed, with 
a leaf-like bracte at each joint, smaller and smaller in 
ascending, terminating in a pyramidal raceme of flowers, a 
foot and half long. A lanceolate bracte, at the base of each 
peduncle, grows shorter and shorter at each flower, till 
_ it becomes very minute. Peduncles horizontal, alter- 
_ hate, one-flowered, lower ones am inch and a half long. 
Calyx 3-leaved : leaflets acute, erect; embracing the base 
_ of the corolla very tight, and only one-third of its length. 
Petals three, linear, two inches long, conniving into a 
cylindrical tube, revolute at the points only. Stamens six, 
rxserted. Filaments nearly twice the length of the petals, 
mto the base of which they are inserted.  Anthers 
erect, linear, fixed by the base to the extremity of the 
ent. Germen superior, conical, three -sided, oe? - 
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