No. 462, 
GUZMANNIA TRICOLOR. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
We received this elegant plant in the 
year 1819 from Jamaica, through our kind 
friend Mr. Balmanno, and in October last 
it flowered. The leaves, which are quite 
smooth and tapering, end in a soft point E 
they are nearly a foot and a half in 1 
and the flower stem is. about the same | 
height. The flowers are white, and do 10! 
has thriven very well with us in a 2 a pot) in de- Ber 
cayed vegetable earth, and must be kept at | 
all times in the stove. According to Ruiz 
and Pavon, it is also found in the moun- 
` tains of Peru, on the trunks of trees. In 
the System. Veget. Peru. they have called 
it Pourretia sympaganthera. It forms a 
connecting link between Pitcairnia and 
Tillandsia, 
