No. 722. 
PITCAIRNIA STAMINEA, 
Class, Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A native of South America, which has 
been very lately introduced. It is a stately 
plant, and as far as we know, the finest of 
this genus, which was named after the late 
Dr. Pitcairn, of Islington, who was much 
attached to botany, and possessed a good 
collection: many plants are recorded in the 
Hortus Kewensis as having been introduced 
by him. Our plant flowered in the month 
of December; the stem was full six feet in 
height. The flowers, which were near a 
hundred at their first opening, roll back, 
but after a few days become straight again. 
The leaves are about two or three feet in 
length, without any thorns on their edges, 
roots. The soil should be loam and peat. 
