PITOAIRNIA. 95 



pound; rachls slightly floccose ; lower pedicels i-1 in. long; 

 bracts lanceolate, about as long as the pedicels. Sepals lanceolate, 

 reddish, nearly glabrous, f-f in. long. Petals bright red, 2 in. 

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



Hab. West Indies, especially Jamaica. This is the original Bpecies, on 

 which the genus Pitcairnia was founded by L'Heritier in 1784. P. platyphylla 

 Schrad., is apparently a robust form, with broad leaves. 



17. P. STENOPHYLLA Andre Enum. 4. — Kudimentary leaves 

 pectinate, ^ in. broad. Produced leaves linear, sessile, 2i-3 ft. 

 long, spinescent on the edge towards the face, furnished beneath 

 with spreading glanduliform scales. Stem slender, reaching with 

 the inflorescence a length of 4-4^ ft. ; bract-leaves many. Eaceme 

 simple, very lax, a foot long ; rachis slightly furfuraceous ; bracts 

 lanceolate, the lower reaching nearly to the tip of the calyx ; 

 pedicels very short. Sepals lanceolate, an inch long. Petals 

 whitish, scaled at the base, half as long again as the sepals. 

 Stamens as long as the petals. 



Hab. Columbia, on the banks of the Eio Magdalena, Andre 1876. 



Group of P. integrij'olia. 



18. P. iNERMis Meyer in Eel. Haenk. ii. 123, t. 23. Ortho- 

 petalum inerme Beer Brom. 72. — Acaulescent. Leaves linear, a 

 foot long, under ^ in. broad, firm in texture for the genus, acumi- 

 nate, not petioled, destitute of marginal spines, green and glabrous 

 above, white-furfuraceous beneath. Peduncle -|-1 ft. long, glabrous ; 

 lower bract-leaves long, upper rudimentary. Panicle a foot long, 

 made up of a longer end-raceme and several short ascending 

 branches ; pedicels ascending, l-\ in. long ; flower-bracts small, 

 lanceolate. Sepals lanceolate, reddish, glabrous, |— fin. long. Petals 

 white, more than twice as long as the sepals, Stamens and style 

 shorter than the petals. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, ascending to 6000 ft., Haenke, Mathews 2088 1 Pearce I 



19. P. ScHTEDEANA Bakcr. — stem-base sheathed by many large 

 ovate brown scariose entire rudimentary leaves. Produced leaves 

 linear, entire, subpetiolate, white-furfuraceous beneath. Peduncle 

 a foot long ; bract-leaves long-pointed, erect. Inflorescence a 

 simple lax raceme nearly a foot long; pedicels ascending, lower 

 -^-f in. long; bracts lanceolate, upper i in., lower long-pointed, 

 1^-2 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, ^ in. long. Petals white, twice 

 as long as the sepals. 



Hab. Central Mexico ; Hacienda de la Laguna Schiede (& Deppe ! (Herb. 

 Mus. Brit.). 



20. P. MicRocALYx Baker in Journ. Bot. 1881, 228. — Acaules- 

 cent.' Leaves linear, indistinctly petioled, 2 ft. long, I— f in. broad 

 at the middle, without marginal spines, green and slightly furfur- 

 aceous on the face, thinly white-furfuraceous all over the back. 

 Peduncle a foot long ; bract leaves several, long-pointed. Flowers 

 in a dense simple raceme, 4-5 in. long, 3 in. broad ; pedicels erecto- 

 patent, the lower ^-^ in. long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 



