108 HANDBOOK OF BROMELIACEiE. 



Hab. Dominica ; epiphytic on forest trees at Landat, Imray 208 ! Ramage ! 

 St. Kitts, Sioartz teste Grisebach. May be identical with P. pendulifiora A. Kich. 



72. P. PENDULiPLORA A. Eicli. in Sagra Fl. Cub. iii. 262. — 

 Leaves lanceolate, 2-3 ft. long, 2-2i- in. broad, white beneath, 

 entire or obscurely dentate. Stem 3 ft. long. Spikes many, dense- 

 flowered, horizontal or drooping ; flowers sessile ; flower-bracts 

 ovate-acuminate, nearly as long as the flower. 



Hab. Cuba, Ramon de la Sagra. Known to me only from a brief descrip- 

 tion. May be identical with P. Plumieri. 



73. P. GouDOTiANA Andre Enum. 4. — Caulescent, with a stem 



3 ft. or more long. Leaves lanceolate -acuminate, not distinctly 

 petioled, 3-4 ft. long, above an inch broad at the middle, spinose 

 on the edge, white-furfuraceous beneath. Stem with inflorescence 

 above 3 ft. long. Panicle ample ; branches few, spreading, a foot 

 or more long, laxly racemose ; flower-bracts ovate, yellowish- 

 white, rather longer than the ascending pedicels, which are ^-|- in. 

 long. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, pale scarlet, IJ-IJ- in. long. 

 Petals 2 in. long, scaled at the base, white, with a reddish tip. 



Hab. Columbia ; province of Cauca, on rocks of the Quebrada of Guavita, 

 Andre 2861. Near P. pulverulenta E. & P. 



74. P. Trian^ Andre Enum. 4. — Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 



4 ft. long, 1|- in. broad at the middle, narrowed in the lowest third, 

 spinose on the edge towards the base. Stem with inflorescence 

 6-7 ft. long, slightly furfuraceous ; bract-leaves many. Eaceme 

 dense, simple, a foot long; rachis slightly floccose ; bracts linear, 

 much shorter than the pedicels, which are ^ in. long in the upper 

 and longer in the lower flowers. Sepals linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 ^ in. long. Petals white or yellowish-white, 1^ in. long, not scaled 

 at the base. Stamens as long as the petals. 



Hab. Forests of the Central Cordillera of Columbia, Andre 2069. 



75. P. ECHiNATA Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4709 ; Lemaire in Jard. 

 Fleur. t. 407 ; Flore des Serres, t. 844. — Acaulescent. Leaves 

 12-20 to a rosette, with an indistinct petiole and a lanceolate 

 chartaceous blade 3-4 ft. long, 1^-2, in. broad at the middle, bright 

 green on the face, white-furfuraceous on the back ; margin entire 

 or with a few small hooked spines low down. Peduncle 2-4 ft. 

 long ; lower bract-leaves with long leafy points. Eacemes several, 

 very lax, arranged in an ample deltoid panicle ; rachises slightly 

 floccose; pedicels -|-1 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate. Sepals 

 lanceolate, yellowish, tinged with red at the base, IJ-li in. long, 

 clothed with spreading gland-tipped processes. Petals white, less 

 than twice as long as the calyx. Capsule much shorter than the 

 calyx. Seeds minute, with a long tail at each end. 



Hab. Fusagasuaja and other mountains of New Granada, Goudot ! Holton 

 152 ! Has flowered at Kew several times of late years. It was first received 

 from Linden in 1853. The alleged locality of Mexico is doubtless a mistake. 



