272 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS PITCAIRNIA. 
red, about 2 in. long, scaled at the base. Genitalia not exserted. 
-—Andes of Peru, Pavon! Matthews, 2089! sno ewe into 
cultivation by Nation about 1850, and again by 
. CORALLINA, Linden et ‘André= Carriere in Rev Hort 
1875, 251, cum chore pean leaves lanceolate, distinctly 
i ine-edged low 
deflected, above a foot long. Pedicels }-$ in. long; bracts 
lanceolate, 3-1 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, shhh bright red, 
above an inch long. Petals bright red, lingulate, 3 in. long, 
sealed at the base, edged with white. Style and stamens reaching 
to the tip of the petals—Choco, New Granada. Introduced by 
Linden about 1874. A very fine and distinct species, well marked 
by its broad : ci It has flowered with Sir G. Maclean, 
at Pendell Court, this sprin é: 
P: ~onhegy “Hook. n Bot. nape t. 5709 ; Lemaire Jard. 
44, 
Fleur. t. 407; Flore des Foting 844.—Whole plant 5-6 ft. 
high. Outer unproduced leaves dclioid, not prickle-edged. Pro- 
Pe leaves 12-20 to a stem, lanceolate, 8-4 ft. long, 1-2 in 
broad at the middle, See eitely ‘pobobods bright green on the face, 
soem no ge on the back, margined all the way up with 
rickles. Peduncle 2-4 ft. long below the inflorescence, 
a8 with 8-10 leaves, the lower a foot long. Racemes several, 
very lax, arranged in an ample ert eel rachises slightly 
floccose; pedicels glandular, 4-1 long; bracts. lanceolate, 
shorter than the pedicels. Sepals ianébolake, densely glandular, 
15-18 lines long. Petals whitish, nearly twice as long as the 
sepals. Stamens and stigma included.—New Granada, ree 
pesticed ! geo in fia mer to be also received from Mexi 
FP. HOC . Ind. Sem. Hort. Monae. 1848, 
isa —P, Paseo "Baker i in Bot. Mag. t. 6818.—Cochliopetalum 
flavescens, Beer Brom. 69.—Produced leaves up to 20 to a stem, 
lanceolate, 2-8 ft. lon g, 1-1} in. broad at the middle, obscurely 
white-furfuraceous on the back. Faas 14-2 ft. long, thinly 
pruinose, the lower leaves 4-1 ft. long. Raceme simple, lax in the 
lower half, 1- i or even 2 ft. aes axis thinly floccose ; dials 
ascending, the lower 4—% in. long; bracts lancelolate, longer than 
the pedicels. eg e lanceolate, 2 in. long. Petals lingulate, 
piinivodi:séld ow, 2 in. long. Stamens. as long as the petals. 
Style finally a litle exaented Brazil. This flowered at Kew in 
mk summer 0 1877. from Dr. Karl Koch’s rater that 
lisidax’ resemblance to the ‘tle nt is P. bracteata Mee sulphure ed. 
P. austrauis, K. Koch Ind. Sem. Berol, 1857, 8.—P. rubi- 
a, K. Koch Mon. 8.—P. Moreliana, Hort jails at Stem 
Dulbiforma at the ions Outer unproduced leaves deltoid, brown- 
black, not peicklaehesd. Produced leaves about half a dozen to a 
tuft, ensiform, 14-2 ft. long, 1-14 in. broad at the middle, 
