[Prats 86.] 
THE LONG-LEAVED PUYA. 
(PUYA LONGIFOLIA). 
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A Stove Herbaceous Plant, supposed to come from the Canaccas, belonging to the Order of BROMELIADS. 
Specific Character. 
THE LONG-LEAVED PUYA. A bulbous, stemless plant. | PUYA LONGIFOLIA ; bulbosa, acaulis, foliis biformibus, 
Leaves of two forms; the external spiny, leathery, exteriori i iacei i 
narrowly pinnated, with a long awl-shaped point ; the subulato interioribus gramineis levibus spicá pluries 
linear-lanceolate, keeled, shorter than the petals, which fissum convolutis dupló brevioribus. 
Puya longifolia : Morren, in Annales de la Société Royale de Gand, vol. ii., p. 483, t. 101. 
A SPECIMEN of this plant was sent to us in March last by Messrs. Weeks & Co. of the King’s Road, 
with the flowers in the pallid state now represented. Since the plate was prepared, we have 
discovered that the species has been figured in the work above quoted, and that the flowers are, when 
in health, as deep in tint as the most scarlet Tillandsia. In Professor Morren’s plant, the outer 
leaves were moreover broader and nearly pinnatifid, not cut down to the middle, as in ours. The 
account which he gives of it is this. 
“This new kind of Puya possesses the coral-red brilliancy of the flowers of its congener, the 
P. Altensteinii, but its spike is much smaller. It has the habit and appearance of the 
P. heterophylia of Lindley (Botanical Register, 1840, t. 71), which it resembles in the bulbs, which do 
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