404 MS MONOCOTYLEDONEAE, PITCAIRNIA. 
lanceolatis, acutis, inferioribus pedicellos subæquantibus ; sepalis 
spice breviter peracutis, haud carinatis ; petalis rubris, ligulis parvis, 
emarginato-bicuspidatis onustis, quam stamina conspicue breviori- 
bus ; ovario ad 2/3 longit. supero; ovulis breviter caudatis. — Schrad. 
Comment. d. Blumenb. p. 26 et in Comm. Gœætting. VI, p. 112; Poir. 
Encycl. méth. Suppl. IV, p. 423 ; Lk. Enum. p. 308 ; R. et S. Syst. 
VII, p. 1242; ps Brom. p. 60; C. Koch in Ind. Sem. hort. Berol. 
1857, App. p. 5; Bak. Brom. p. 97. — ? P. integrifolia var. major 
Regel in Ind. Bak hort. Petrop. 1869, p. 24; Bak. Brom. l. c. — 
P. decora Dietr. in Allg. Gartenz. 1841, p. 353 eti in Bot. Zeitg. 1848, 
p. 95; C. Koch in Ind. Sem. hort. Berol. 1857, App. p. 5. — P. gra- 
minifolia hort. ap. Schrad. Comm. de Blumenb. p. 46. — P. grami- 
nea Beer, Brom. p. 198 (nomen tantum). 
Acaulis, florifera — 0,5 m. alta, gracillima. Folia multa dense fas- 
ciculata, basi in vaginam exterioribus brevem interioribus elongatam, 
ovato-triangularem, + brunnescentem, integerrimum, dorso paullo 
lepidotam dilatata, ad 0,7 m. longa, 13 mm. lata, anguste sublinearia, 
apicem longe filiformem versus persensim acuta, supra + glabra sa- 
turate viridia. Scapus tenuis, rectus, superne rubens, glaber v. minute 
solum furfuraceus, vaginis ex elongate triangulari longe filiformi- 
acutis, subglabris, erectis, summis — 55 mm. longis conspersus. In- 
florescentia submultiflora, foliis brevior, usque ad 0,4 m. longa, 0,2 m. 
diam. metiens, bene pyramidalis; axibusrubentibus, glabrisv. minute 
furfuraceis ; ramis quaquaverse laxeque 5-20-floris suberectis vel e 
. Subereeto adscendenti-curvatis, sueto vix ultra 0,15 m. longis; brac- 
teolis florigeris subglabris, superioribus ad 8 mm. longis quam pedi- 
celli brevioribus, patentibus. Flores basi aurantiaei ceterum fulgide 
rubri, ad 40 mm. longi, gracillimi, glabri, per anthesin patentes, pedi- 
cellis tenuissimis, usque ad 10 mm. longis stipitati ; sepalis +15 mm. 
metientibus, basi 3,5 mm. latis, sublinearibus. Petala per anthesin 
omnia recta tubulose conniventia, deflorata haud recurva, apice ro- 
tundata, ad 37 mm. longa, generis ex angustissimis. Antheræ 7 mm. 
longæ. Capsulam non vidi. 
Insula Trinidad : Fendler n. 839. (V. s. in herb. Berol., Haun., 
Kew., C. Koch., Petrop., Vratisl., Willd. n. 6319.) 
51. P. ramosa (Jacq. Eclog. p. 154 in Corrig.) ; foliis homomor- 
phis, persistentibus, super vaginam paullo angustatis nec petiolatis, 
margine spinulis parvis, uncinatis, distantibus auctis v. apicem versus 
sepius fere omnino inermibus, dorso lepidibus albidis tenuiter obtec- 
tis; scapo valido, vaginis superioribus internodia paullo solum super- 
