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54. — Folia homomorpha, persistentia, supra vaginam exteriora conspicue interiora vix 

 angustata nee petiolata, linearia, sueto haud ultra 0,4 m longa, ad 20 mm lata, praeter 

 vaginam exterioribus spinulosam inermia, dorso albido-lepidota. Vaginae scapi permani- 

 festi crassiusculi erecti quam internodia longiores, integerrimae. Inflorescentia submulti- 

 vel multiflora, perdense racemosa, junior ellipsoidea demum subcorymbosa, furfuracea, 

 apice latiuscule rotundata, sueto haud ultra 0,15 m longa, ad 80 mm diain. metiens; bracteis 

 virentibus vel rarius plus minus rubentibus, e late ovato acutis, inferioribus sepala superan- 

 tibus superioribus quoque ea ad % aequantibus, mediis ad 27 mm longis, dorso paullo 

 lepidotis vel rarius glabris. Flores pedicellis infimis vix ultra 8 mm longis, erectis stipitati, 

 ad 53 mm longi, arcuatim decurvi; sepalis viridibus, glabris, 20 — 23 mm longis, late 

 linearibus, apice subrotundatis, plus minus carinatis. Petala rubra, ad 48 mm longa, 

 apice acutiuscula, staminibus paullo longiora, ligulata. Antherae fere 9 mm longae. 

 Ovarium ad 2 / 3 longit. superum. 



Antillen: Martinique (fide Plumier); Guadeloupe (Badier, Bertero, Du- 

 chassaing, Funk und Schlim n. 32, 33, Duss n. 3315). — In Kultur, wie auch 

 die Varietät. 



var. sulfurea Gawl. in Bot. Mag. XXXIV. (1811) t. 1416. — Pitcairnia sulphurea 

 Andr. Bot. Rep. IV. (1802) t. 240. — P. bracteata var. Hör. flavis: Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2. ed. 

 II. (1811) 202. — Tillandsia vincentiensis E. H. L. Krause in Beih. Bot. Zentralbl. XXXII. 

 2. (1914) 337 (e diagnosi). — A typo floribus llavis differt. Si nota cl. Lindley in Journ. 

 Hortic. Soc. VIII. (1853) 54 huc spectat, formae binae ex eadem Capsula proveniunt! 



Antillen: St. Vincent (Anderson, Eggers n. 6836 a) ; Dominica (R am age). 



47. P. albueifolia Schrad. Blumenb. (1827) 24, t. 3; Wittm. in Berl. Gartenzeitg. III. 

 (1884) 482, flg. 142. — P. furfuracea Sims (non alior.) in Bot. Mag. LIII. (1826) t. 2657. — 

 P. furfuracea Beer, Bromel. (1857) 59 e. p. — P. latifolia var. furfuracea Bak. Bromel. 

 (1889) 92 e. p. — P. angustifolia var. furfuracea Hörnern. Hort. Haun. Suppl. (1819) 38. — 

 P. intermedia Hort. (e. p.) ex Sims in Bot. Mag. 1. c. — P. affinis G. Koch in Ind. sein. Hort. 

 Berol. (1857) App. 5. — P. pruinosa Hort, (non II . B. K.) ex C. Koch, 1. c. — Pourretia 

 magnispatha Hort, (non Colla) ex C. Koch, 1. c. — Pitcairnia ringens Beer (non Link, Klotzsch 

 et Otto) Bromel. (1857) 55. — P. angustifolia Hort, (non alior.) ex Bak. Bromel. (1889) 

 92. — ? Pitcairnia spec. fol. lineari-lanc. etc.: Voigt, PI. rar. bort. Belved. in Sylloge II. 

 (1812?) 52. — Folia homomorpha, persistentia, supra vaginam nee angustata nee petiolata, 

 prope basin paucispinulosa, 0,5 — 0,7 in longa, medio ad 17 mm lata, dorso dense lepidota. 

 Vaginae scapi permanifesti, erecti internodia aequantes vel superantes, superiores ex ovato 

 longe acuminatae et ad 30 mm longae, integerrimae, praesertim dorso lepidotae. Inflo- 

 rescentia multiflora, perdense racemosa, thyrsoidea, apice obtusa, usque ad 0,2 m longa, 

 90 mm diam. metiens; bracteis lanceolatis, perlonge acutis, mediis ad 17 mm longis, 

 omnibus pedicellos graciles, ad 10 mm longos bene superantibus. Flores miniati, erecti, 

 45 — 50 mm longi; sepalis angustissime triangularibus, ad 18 mm longis, e basi persensim 

 acutis, subglabris vel paullo furfuraeeis. Petala ad 40 mm longa, apice acutiuscula, stamina 

 superantia, ligulata. Antherae ad 7 mm longae. Ovarium semisuperum. 



Antillen: Martinique (Belanger n. 359, 465); St. Vincent (II. H. und G. W. 

 Smith n. 624). — Seit alter Zeit in Kultur. 



48. P. Schultzei Harms in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. u. Mus. Berlin-Dahlem X. n. 93 (1928) 

 212. — Folia rosulata, (ut videtur) homomorpha, e vagina angusta primum spatio brevi 

 paullo angustata et deinde in laminam longam lineari-lanceolatam dilatata, apicem versus 

 sensim angustata et in mucronulum tenuissimum pro rata brevem vel longiusculum ex- 

 euntia, membranacea, margine integra (vel ima basi tantum paucispinulosa), glabra vel 

 subglabra (inferne parce floeculosa), circ. 15 — 35 cm longa, 2 — 2,5 cm lata; scapus cum 

 racemo ad 35 — 45 cm longus, tenuis, parce albido-floeculosus, vaginis lineari-lanceolatis, 

 longissime tenuissime acuminatis, internodia longe (inferioribus) vel breviter (superioribus) 

 superantibus; bracteae ad basin florum anguste lanceolatae, acuminatae, pedicellos tenues 

 5 — 7 mm longos floeculosos plerumque superantes, circ. 15 — 6 mm longae; flores primum 



