266 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS PITCAIRNIA. 
naked on the face, white-furfuraceous on the back, spine- -margined 
towards the base. Peduncle 2 ft. or more long, with many ‘erect 
leaves. Raceme dense, cost simple, 3-9 in. beng axis slightly 
cottony; pedicels ascending, the lower %-4 in. long; bracts 
a gat often twice as long as the pedicels. Sepals lanceolate, 
| n. long. Petals bright red, twice as long as the sepals, scaled 
at the base. Stamens and style not exserte oe rtinique, Hahn, 
855! 582! 879! 1052! Venezuela, Cruger! Differs from latifolia 
by its simple dense racemes and large Cae ; so that itis midway 
between latifolia and bracteata. 
21, P. pracreata, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. rae - ii. 202; Hook. 
in Bot. Mag. t. 2813.—P. latifolia, Red. Lil. on Ait.—P. 
Gireoudiana, Dietr. in Allgem. Gartenzeit. xxi. me a F commutata, 
Regel Gartenfl. 1867, 289, t. 557.—Le in a dens t, linear, 
aves tuft, 
13-2 ft. long, 3-1 in. broad, acuminate, not p etioled, ae ately 
firm in texture, entire or slightly prickly eat the base, green 
and naked on the face, white-furfuraceous on the back. Peduncle 
a foot long, stout, floecose, with numerous reduced leaves. Raceme 
lowe 1-14 | in. lon ot the upper shorter. Sepals lanceolate, 3-1 in. 
bea. Petals in the type bright red, decurving, wunecand, 2 pee 
as long as the sepals, scaled at the base. Stamens and style a 
long as the sepals alae Vincents, Ander ‘son! Guilding! LP. sulphur io 
Andrews Bot. Rep. t. 249, is a variety we alloy flowers. 
jaa have Pe en vila in cultivat 
22. P. aura, Sata Retzi i B.-P.2 nosa, K. Koch Monogr. 
5, non. Jacq.—Acaulescent, Hen ts Ha Heine Leaves 12-20 toa 
eGR, hag 8 ft. long, 3-1in. broad at the middle, very acuminate, 
arrow in. oi the dilated base but not distinctly 
spaticlod, pt -edged towards the base, green and naked on the 
face, white-furfuraceous on the back. Peduncle WB . one below 
the inflorescence, floccose, with many reduced Racemes 
e 
which | are b) imitiabaisia intermedia, and Skinneri. My deotription 
is mainly taken from a plant that flower ed at Kew in August, 1877. 
Mr. Bull had it in flower in October, de 
. CoNsIMILIS, Baker.— ery like P. ferruginea, but much 
smaller in all +04 hago mien linear, sessile, 
broad at the e, firm in texture, very acuminate, channelled 
down the alii face, white- furfuraceous on the back, prickle- 
margined all the way up. Pedunele glabrescent, a foot long be below 
the inflorescence, all its leaves oe act-like. Racemes: 8-6, very lax, 
in. 
arranged in an ample panicle, the end one a £00 Jon, ng; pedicels 
daeadinty 4-3 in. long; bracts obieag: intoedets) scariose, densely 
