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at the middle, cliartaceous, green and glabrous on the face, wliite- 

 furfuraceous on the back, spme-margined towards the base. Peduncle 

 2 ft. or more long ; lower bract-leaves with long points. Kaceme 

 dense, 4-9 in. long, nearly always simple ; pedicels ascending, 

 ^-^ in. long ; bracts green, lanceolate, an inch or more long. Sepals 

 lanceolate, greenish-red, |-| in. long. Petals bright red, 2 in. 

 long, scaled at the base. Stamens as long as the petals. 



Hab. Martinique, Hahn ! Columbia, Karsten ! Intermediate between P. 

 latifolia and P. bracteata. To this belong P. angustifolia of the Morren 

 drawings and P. affi,nis and angustifolia of K. Koch's herbarium. Cultivated at 

 Berlin in 1837. 



9. P. BRACTEATA Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 202 ; 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 2813 (M.D.). P. latifolia Bed. Lil. t. 74, 

 non Ait. P. Gireoudiana Dietr. in AUg. Gartenzeit. xxi. 105. 

 F, commiUata, Regel Gartenfl. t.557. — Acaulescent. Leaves many 

 in a tuft, linear, 1^-2 ft. long, f-1 in. broad at the middle, not 

 petioled, cliartaceous, green and glabrous above, white-furfuraceous 

 beneath, entire or prickly towards the base. Peduncle ^-1 ft. long, 

 stout, iioccose. Raceme dense, simple, 4-12 in. long ; rachis 

 floccose ; pedicels very short, ascending ; bracts lanceolate, 1-1|- in. 

 long. Sepals lanceolate, slightly pubescent, f-1 in. long. Petals 

 Ungulate, bright red, scaled at the base, twice as long as the sepals. 

 Stamens as long as the petals. 



Var. P. suLPHUREA Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 249. P. bracteata var. 

 sulplmrea Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1416. — Flowers yellow. 



Hab. West Indies ; St. Vincent's, Anderson ! Giulding ! Introduced into 

 cultivation about 1800. Billbergia bifrons Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. viii. 54, 

 may perhaps belong here. 



10. P. uAUPENsis Baker. — Shortly caulescent. Leaves with a 

 channelled petiole ^ ft. long with a few black spines and a linear 

 entire chartaceous blade 1^ ft. long, ^ in. broad at the middle, 

 green and glabrous above, obscurely furfuraceous beneath. Flowers 

 only seen detached. Sepals lanceolate, 1:^ in. long. Petals bright 

 red, nearly twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. Amazon valley ; banks of the Rio Uaupes, Spruce 2667 ! Allied to P. 

 subpetiolata. 



11. P. ODONTOPODA Baker. — Acaulescent. Leaves with a chan- 

 nelled petiole a foot long armed with copious toothed black spines 

 and an ensiform chartaceous entire blade 1^-2 ft. long, f in. broad 

 at the middle, green and glabrous above, deciduously white- 

 furfuraceous beneath. Peduncle 2 ft. or more long. Racemes 

 lax, the end one 3-4 in. long, with 2-3 short ones beneath it ; 

 rachis furfuraceous ; pedicels ascending, the lower |— |- in. long ; 

 bracts as long as the pedicels. Sepals lanceolate, f-f in. long. 

 Petals bright red. 



Hab. Andes of Peru below Corvico, alt. 4000—6000 ft., with P. Pearcel, 

 Pearcc ! Collected in 1866. 



12. P. Devansayana Andre. — Leaves linear, acuminate, 2 ft. 

 long, above | in. broad at the middle, nearly glabrous, convolute 

 when dry, spiny towards the base. Stem with panicle 6-7 ft. 



