804 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS PITCAIRNIA. 
or pendent panicled eg bracts ovate-acuminate, nearly as long 
ch, Mon. 8.—Pepinia punicea, A. 
minutely spine-edged in the upper part, green and pesky on ‘the 
face, with a broad paler central band, white-furfuraceous on the 
back. uncle very short. Raceme ‘ lex simple, 4-6 in . long; 
rachis thinly floccose; pedicels erecto-patent, the Cae, 1-4 in. 
long ; ay lanceolate, as long as the pedicels. Sepals poo 
slightly e, 4-8 in. long. Petals bright red, 14-13 in. long. 
Stamens ory ee included.—Mexico, in the province of ekeoee 
59. 
56. P. aPHELANDREFLORA, Lemaire i in Ill. Hort. xvi. Mise. 90.— 
Pepinia aphelandreflora, André in Linden Ill. Hort., , t. 
—Stems slender, simple, reaching a sia in aber below the rosette 
of leaves. Leaves 30-60, e ornneg 3-6 in. of stem, linear, 
apieate | raceme 4—6 in. long in ‘the centre of the bata: lowes 
bracts linear, leaf-like, 2-8 in. long; upper deltoid, wn 
oN oR 4-3 in. long. pg coral-red, glabrous, lanceolate, 
in. long. Sepals bright red, 24 in. long, org at the res 
Stamens and stigma considerably exserted.—Para, Baraquin. 
troduced into cultivation by Linden about 1867. ave description is 
from a ? arasim that flowered at Kew in 
57. P. re uiz et Pavon Fl. Peruv. iii. 36.—P. astero- 
tricha, Péeppis. et Endlich. Nov. Gen. t. 158.—Puya grandiflora, 
Hook. in Bot. Mag., t. 5284.—Whole plant 10-12 ft. high. Stems 
3-4 ft. long below the rosette of leaves, as thick as a man’s arm, 
and sometimes forked. one perhaps 100 in a very dense rosette, 
mg, 1 i i 
in. 
channelled all down the green naked face, the back densely white- 
lepidote, the margins prickly all the way down, the lower spines 
brown, lanceolate, uncinate, } in. long, the upper eres gradually 
sm Peduncle 2-8 ft. long below the inflorescence. Racemes 
tomentose externally, 2-24 in. long. Petals ‘white, twice as oe 
: nie 
8. P. viresc och, Mon nog. 4,—Puya virescens, Hook. in 
Bot, Mag., t. 4991. < Phuaitaie viridiflora, Regel, Ind. Sem. Petrop., 
