PITCAIRNIA. BROMÉLIACEAE (AUCTORE C. MEZ) ^ 449 
æquantibus; ovario ad 4/5 long. supero ; seminibus utrinque longe 
caudatis. — Regel in Gartenfl. t. 113; C. Koch in Ind. Sem. hort. 
Berol. 1839, App. p. 4; Bak. Brom. p. 110. — P. Funckii (Regel) Wa- 
wra, It. Sax.-Cob. p. 174 in adnot. (nomen). — Phlomostachys 
Funckiana Beer, Brom. p. 47. — Puya Funckiana Linden, Cat. n. 5 
p. 2 et ap. Beer, Brom. l. c. — Pitcairnia macrocalyx Hook. in Bot. 
Mag. t. 4705 ; Beer, l. c. p. 52. 
Folia extima ovato-triangularia, + brunnescentia; interiora vix 
10 in fasciculum tenuem coalita, basi in vaginam perelongatam, ex 
ovato longe ovalem, dorso dissite brunneo-lepidotam dilatata, tum in 
petiolum profunde canaliculatum, vix ultra 0,1 m. longum contracta, 
denique in laminam lanceolatam, utrinque peracutam apice demum 
subfiliformem, 0,3-0,6 m. longam, usque ad 50 mm. latam producta. 
Scapus erectus, paullo furfuraceus, vaginis ovato-ellipticis, apice 
longe acuminatis, dorso furfuraceis, erectis dense indutus. Racemus 
pauci-v. subpauciflorus usque ad 0,2 m. longus, 80 mm. diam. metiens; 
bracteis per anthesin patentibus + 30 mm. longis. Flores ad 65 mm. 
metientes, pedicellis quamvis brevibus tamen manifestis stipitati, 
glabri; sepalis flavidis, 35 mrh. longis, sublanceolatis, asymmetricis. 
Petala per anthesin arcuatim decurva, lactea apice paullo flavescentia, 
postico quam anteriora bina + 62 mm. longa 10-12 mm. breviore 
valde inæqualia. Stamina antheris ad 11 mm. longis. 
Guyana anglica, loco ignoto : Schomburgk ; Columbia, Sierra Nevada 
de Sta. Martha : Purdie. (V. v. in. hort. Leod., Vratisl. ; v. s. in herb. 
Kew., Paris., Petrop., Monac., Leod.) 
114. P. maidifolia (Dcsne. ap. Planch. in Fl. serres, sér. 1, I 
[1853-54], 154, t. 915); foliis extimis reductis subsquamiformibus, in- 
terioribus super vaginam in petiolum permanifestum contractis, per- 
sistentibus, inermibus, adultis glabris; scapo permanifesto, vaginis 
quam internodia longioribus induto ; inflorescentia densiuscule sub- 
racemosa floribus erectis; bracteis late ovalibus, sepala &quantibus ; 
sepalis apice obtusis, haud carinatis ; petalis eligulatis, virenli- 
albidis, stamina paullo superantibus ; ovario fere supero; ovulis 
perlonge caudatis. — Regel in Ind. Sem. hort. Petrop. 1868, p. 18 ; 
Hamb. Gartenz. 1854, p. 498; Bak. Brom. p. 109. — P. maizaifolia 
hort. ex Beer, Brom. p. 46. — Lamproconus maidifolius Lem. ex Bak, 
l. c. — Neumannia maidifolia C. Koch in Ind. Sem. hort, Berol. 1856, 
App. p. 2 et in Berl. Allg. Gartenz. 1838, p. 268. — Puya maïdifolia 
Morr. in Ann. Soc. Gand. V, p. 453, t. 289. — Puya maydifolia Desne. 
in Rev. hortic. ser. 3, V (1851), p. 241. — Phone cca noie 
Surres AU Prodromus, — IX. 
