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ultrti SS^^^longis composita, foliis brevior, in scapi gracilis, 

 glabri vel perparce lepidoti, yaginis pulchre rubentibus mem- 

 branaceis, suberectis, lanceolatis perlongeque acutis, inferiori- 

 bus margine minutissime spinulosis superioribus integerrimis, 

 paullo lepidotis, internodia superantibus praediti apice elata, 



ovoidea vel ellipsoidea, =bo. 15"" longa, 90™™ diam. metiens, 

 glaberrima; ramulis conspicue undulatis, 6— lO-floris; bracteis- 

 primariis infimis anguste lanceolatis, peracutis, ramulos axil- 

 lares ultra dimidium aequantibus, reflexis; bracteolis florigeris 

 3- S-S"""" longis, reflexo-patentibus, submembranaceis, tenuis- 

 sime solum saepiusque obscure venoso-Iineatis, glabris, latis- 

 sime ovatis breviterque (nec pungenter) acuminulatis, satis 

 concavis. Flores per anthesin secus ramulos stricte erecti, 

 sessiles, 17""" longi, glabri; sepalis liberis vel basi minutissime 

 solum connatis, 5. 5'"™ longis, apice in aciculum minutissimum, 

 brunneum, dorsalem productis, latere tecto in alam maximam 

 aciculo multo altiorem dilatatis. Petala 13"'"' Ionga,ex ungue 

 lineari in laminam angustam, sublanceolatam, peracute in 

 spinulam terminalem transeuntem dilatata, 2""' a basi ligulis 

 bfnis profunde fimbriato-incisis aucta. Stamina petalis paullo 

 breviora, filamentis anguste linearibus, tenuibus, ser. I liberis, 

 ser. II cum petalis peralte (ultra laminne basin) intime con- 

 natis; antheris luteis, fere 3""° longis, lanceolatis. utrinque 

 sed praesertim apice acutis, prope medium dorsifixis. Ovar- 

 lum subglobosum, longitudinaliter sulcatum, ad 7™'" longum; 

 tubo epigyno subnullo; stylo antheras exacte aequante, grac- 

 ili; stigmatibus longe divisis, perangustis, laxe spiraliter con- 

 tortis. Bacca coerulea !, globosa, Pist magnitudine, sepalis 

 persistentibus tenuiter conice conniventibus coronata; semini- 

 bus allutaceis, vix 2"""' longis. 



Isla de Catina, Rio San Juan, Nicaragua, ^ 1839, Friedrichs- 

 thal, no. 609, (herb. Vindob.). Rio Jimdnez, Llanos de 

 Santa Clara, Comarca de Limon, Costa Rica, alt. 650'*, Apr. 

 1894, J, D. S., no. 4,962. 



Pitcairnia pul)erula Mcz et Donnell Smith; foliis exteri- 

 oribus ignotis, intcrioribus haud petiolatis, anguste lanceola- 

 tis, integerrimis, subtus junioribus lepidibus albis pilos mag- 

 nos simulantibus furfuraceis; inflorescentia simplicissima, 



*Mr. Hemsley has remarked, that aU of Friedrichsthars plants in the Kew 

 herbarium are ticketed as from Guatemala; and this is the case also with the 

 Vienna specimen above cited. In fact, the collections were made in Nicaragua 

 and Costa Rica. 



