PITCAIRNIA. 105 



Hab. Country unknown. Described from a specimen grown at the Jardin 

 des Plantes in 1853. Near P. hracteata sulphurea. 



60. P. Andreana Linden Cat. 1873 ; 111. Hort. n. s. t. 139 '■> 

 Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6480 (M.D.). P. lepidota Regal in Act. 

 Hort. Petrop. ii. 435. — Whole plant under a foot high. Leaves 5-6 

 to a stem, not distinctly petioled, lanceolate, chartaceous, drooping, 

 16-20 in. long, 1-1|- in. broad at the middle, narrowed to a long 

 point and ^ in. above the base, white all over beneath, green with 

 copious scattered lepidote spots above. Peduncle 4-6 in. long, 

 leafy up to the top. Raceme simple, erect, moderately dense, 

 4-6 in. long ; pedicels ascending, the lower J-^ in. long ; flower- 

 bracts small, green, lanceolate. Sepals green, lepidote, lanceolate, 

 under an inch long. Petals 2|-2f in. long, narrow, bright red 

 with a yellow tip. Stamens as long as the petals. 



Hab. Venezuela and New Granada. Introduced into cultivation by Koezl 

 about 1872. Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, July, 1879. 



61. P. FULGENS Dene, in Cat. Linden, 1850, 18; Dietr. in 

 AUgem. Garten, xix. 26. P. Decaisnei K. Koch Monogr. 5. P. 

 L'Herminieri Hort. — Leaves with a channelled petiole a foot long, 

 sometimes but not always margined with small spines and a 

 lanceolate chartaceous blade 2-3 ft. long, 1-1^ in. broad at the 

 middle, green above, persistently white-furfuraceous beneath. 

 Peduncle 2-2|- ft. long, slightly floccose ; lower bract-leaves long 

 and distinctly petioled. Raceme dense, simple, erect, a foot long ; 

 pedicels ascending ; lower f-1 in. long ; bracts lanceolate-acu- 

 minate ; lower 1-lf in. long. Sepals lanceolate, nearly an inch 

 long. Petals bright red, 2-2^ in. long, scaled at the base. Stamens 

 not longer than the petals. 



Hab. Guadeloupe, UHerminier. Introduced into cultivation by Linden in 

 1850. Described from a specimen in the herbarium of Dr. Karl Koch. The 

 plant called P. fulgens in the Morren drawings has deflexed pedicels and small 

 bracts. 



62. P. BRACHYSPERMA Andre Enum. 4. — Rudimentary leaves 

 ovate, not spine-margined. Produced leaves lanceolate, 2-2^ ft. 

 long, 2 in. broad at the middle, subpetiolate, white-furfuraceous 

 beneath. Stem with inflorescence 2-2f in. long, slightly floccose ; 

 upper bract-leaves short, adpressed. Raceme short, simple, mode- 

 rately dense ; pedicels ^ in. long ; lower bracts nearly an inch long. 

 Sepals lanceolate, an inch long. Petals scarlet, scaled at the base, 

 half as long again as the sepals. Stamens shortly exserted. Seeds 

 shortly tailed at each end. 



Hab. Eastern Andes of Columbia, near the Cascade of Chirajara, Andre 

 1088. 



63. P. REFLExiFLORA Andre Enum. 4. — Leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 not spine-margined, 2^-3 ft. long, an inch or more broad at the middle, 

 white-furfuraceous beneath. Stem with inflorescence 2^-3 ft. long, 

 slightly cottony; bract-leaves numerous; lower very long. Raceme 

 dense, simple, 4-6 in. long; rachis cottony; flowers at first 

 spreading, finally reflexed ; bracts linear-lanceolate, |^-| in. long ; 

 pedicels very short. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, i-| in. long. Petals 



