230 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS PITCAIRNIA, 
duced about 1820. In Ill. Hort., loc. cit., it is said to have been 
found by Roezl in New Granada. Is not a3 a mistake ? 
¢) Fivune ens, H. B. K. Nov. Gen - Hook in Bot. Mag. 
t. 5856. laine Tufts bulb- like are the base, the outer 
ed, ] y 
furaceous on the back, destitute of prickles. Peduncle 4-1 ft. 
long, cottony, its many leaves all small and bract-like, the lower. 
m 
lanceolate, 4—1 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, aus cottony, $7 in. 
Petals lingulate, . bright red, 2 in. long, scarlet at the base, sub- 
secund. Stamens and style reaching to the tip of the petals.— 
Andes of Ecuador and New Granada, ascending to 9000-10,000 ft., 
Humboldt; Jameson,758! Hall! Spruce, 5878! 6012! Introduced 
into cultivation by I. Anderson Henry, Esq., of Edinburgh, from 
on sent by Prof. Jameson. 
. P. Keeerrina, K. Koch herb. Lower leaves linear acuminate, 
. about a foot long, }-3 in broad, green and naked on the 
upper surface, white beneath, overto opping the roar Peduncle 
slender, about 4 ft. long, with several long leaves. Racem e simple, 
moderately dense, about 3 in. long, with a flexuose cottony rachis ; 
pedicels ascending, the lower }-} in. long; bracts lanceolate 
acuminate, the lower }-1 in. long, the upper much smaller. 
Sepals lanceolate, 3-4 in. long. Petals ah red, twice as long 
as the sepals. Genitalia not exserted.—A n wn 
“8 me only from a engl Leys in a Ko ch’'s herbarium. 
foaditats of teeth. 
9. P. paucrrtora, Baker. Acaulescent. Produced leaves 6-8 to 
a stem, linear, 12 Bi tr . long, +} in. broad at the middle, thi 
texture, very acu inate, almost petioled, naked on the face, 
thinly white txtane ceous on the back. Peduncle above a foot 
Petals bright ie an inch longer than the sepals. Stamens and 
style reaching to ‘the e tip of the petals—British Guiana, far in the 
interior, on high banks of the River Quitara, Sir Richd. canoinbiih gk, 
585! This has the ovary more joined to the calyx than any other 
species I have seen. 
10. P. mnreerivonm, Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1462.—P. dleoora, 
A. Dietr. in Allg. iviniaaiie xv. 852.—P. graminifolia, Hort. 
Acaulescent. Produced leaves linear, 2-8 ft. long, about 4 m 
broad at the rapa tapering to a long point, not distinetly 
petioled, thin in texture, green and naked on the face, closely 
white- citeeaiiae on the back, entirely destitute of teeth. 
Peduncle above a foot long below the inflorescence, with several 
