PITCAIRNIA. 97 



lower J-i in. long; bracts lanceolate, a little longer than the 

 pedicels. Calyx about an inch long, with an oblong tube adnate to 

 the ovary nearly to its tip and not much shorter than the linear 

 segments. Petals bright red, an inch longer than the sepals. 

 Stamens reaching to the tip of the petals. 



Hab. British Guiana ; banks of the Kiver Quitara, Schoviburgk 585 1 

 Eemarkable for its much-adnate calyx. May belong to section Melinonia 

 near P. suhjuncta, but not known in fruit. 



25. P. sTAMiNEA Loddiges Bot. Cab. t. 773 ; Sims in Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2411; 111. Hort. n.s. t. 205 (M.D.). Orthopetalum stamineum 

 Beer Brom. 70. — Acaulescent. Leaves 20-30 to a stem, indis- 

 tinctly petioled, linear, l|~2ft. long, J~|-in. broad, entirely destitute 

 of marginal spines, green and glabrous above, thinly white-furfur- 

 aceous beneath. Peduncle slender, l-|-2 ft. long ; lower bract- 

 leaves long, upper rudimentary. Inflorescence a lax simple raceme 

 l-l-l ft. long, i ft. broad when fully expanded ; pedicels deflexed, 

 reddish, the lower an inch or more long ; bracts green, lanceolate, 

 ■|~| in. long. Sepals greenish, lanceolate, glabrous, f-^ in. long. 

 Petals bright red, 2 in. long, rolling up spirally. Stamens and 

 style red, longer than the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil; forests about Eio Janeiro, &c., Burchell, 29341 

 Gardner 846 ! Sello ! Collie ! Introduced into cultivation about 1820. The 

 alleged locality of New Granada is doubtless a mistake. 



26. P. iNTEGRiFOLiA Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1462. P. decora Dietr. 

 in Allg. Gartenzeit. xv. 352. P. graminifolia Hort. — Acaulescent. 

 Leaves linear, not distinctly petioled, 2-3 ft. long, ^-f in. broad at 

 the middle, chartaceous, destitute of spines, green and glabrous 

 above, white-furfuraceous beneath. Peduncle slender, above a foot 

 long ; lower leaves with long points. Kacemes 1-5, very lax, the end 

 one 9-12 in. long ; rachises cottony ; pedicels ascending, ^-f in. 

 long; bracts small, lanceolate ; sepals lanceolate, nearly naked, 

 ■^-1 in. long. Petals an inch longer than the calyx, bright red, 

 scaled at the base. Stamens and style as long as the petals. 



Yar. MAJOR Eegel in Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1869, 24. — Leaves 

 3 ft. long, an inch broad. Raceme 2 ft. long. 



Hab. St. Lucia, Anderson ! St. Domingo, Mayerhoff 133 ! Andes of New 

 Granada, Funck 58 1 Columbia, Moritz 451 ! Introduced into cultivation by 

 Lady Amelia Hume about 1810. P. meridensis Klotzsch (Merida, Moritz 1233 !) 

 differs from the type by its broader subpetiolate leaves and longer pedicels. 



27. P. TuRCKHEiMii Donnell Smith in Amer. Bot. Gaz. 1888, 

 190, t. 24. — Base of the stem swollen, surrounded by ovate brown 

 rigid rudimentary leaves with a pectinate linear tip. Proper leaves 

 few, linear, entire, 6-8 in. long, under -| in. broad at the middle, 

 cano-floccose beneath. Peduncle a foot long; bract-leaves with 

 linear free tips. Raceme very lax, simple, § ft. long ; pedicels 

 erecto-patent, lower J-^ in. long ; bracts ovate, lower f in. long. 

 Calyx an inch long ; sepals lanceolate. Petals narrow, bright red, 

 3 in. long. Stamens just protruded. 



Hab. Guatemala, Turckheim 1298. 



28. P. PUNGENS H.B.K. Nov. Gen. i. 294 ; Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 

 5356. — Acaulescent. Tufts bulb-like at the base, the outer coria- 



