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flower-bracts ovate, acute, 1^ in. long, bright red with a green tip. 

 Sepals oblong-lanceolate, greenish, an inch long. Petals white, 

 more than twice as long as the calyx. Stamens reaching to the 

 tip of the petals. 



Hab. Guatemala, Warszcewicz. Santa Martha, Purdie 1 Mountains of 

 Venezuela, Funck (& Schlim. Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, 

 Dec, 1879, received from Dr. Eegel, and again in Feb. 1888. First flowered by 

 Linden in 1848. 



80. P. FuNCKiANA A. Dietr. in Otto & Dietr. Allgem. Gartenzeit. 

 xix. 337 ; Eegel Gartenfl. t. 113 (M.D.). Phlomostachys Funkiana 

 Beer Brom. 47. Pitcairnia macrocalyx Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4705. 

 Acaulescent. Leaves 12-20 to a rosette, with an unarmed chan- 

 nelled petiole |~1 ft. long and a lanceolate chartaceous reflexing 

 blade 2-3 ft. long, 2-2J in. broad at the middle, green and glabrous 

 on both surfaces. Peduncle erect, 2 ft. or more long ; bract-leaves 

 lanceolate, adpressed, pale. Inflorescence a simple dense spike, 

 ■J-lft. long; upper flowers ascending, lower spreading; pedicels very 

 short ; flower-bracts ovate, greenish-white, 1-1 J in. long. Sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, an inch long. Petals nearly white, 

 more than twice as long as the calyx. Stamens reaching to the 

 tip of the petals. Capsule as long as the bract. Seeds with a 

 minute nucleus and long tails at each end. 



Hab. Mountains of Venezuela, Funck. Santa Martha, Purdie I Demerara, 

 Schomburgk ! Introduced into cultivation by Linden about 1850. 



81. P. REGURVATA K. Koch Mon. 4. — Puya recurvata Schiedw. 

 in Otto & Dietr. Allgem. Gartenzeit. x. 275. Pitcairnia poly- 

 anthoides Brong. Pepinia recurvata E. Morren (M.D.). — Acaul- 

 escent or shortly caulescent. Leaves 12-20 to a stem, with a short un- 

 armed channelled petiole and a lanceolate chartaceous recurving 

 blade 2-3 ft. long, 1|- in . broad at the middle, minutely serrulate towards 

 the tip, green and glabrous above, white-furfuraceous beneath. 

 Peduncle stout, erect, 1 J-2 ft. long ; bract-leaves all small and 

 adpressed. Liflorescence a dense simple erect subspicate raceme 

 6-9 in. long; flower-bracts all ascending, ovate, acute, entirely 

 green, the lowest 1^ in. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 greenish, an inch long. Petals milk-white, much recurved, 3-3J- in. 

 long, scaled at the base. Stamens reaching to the tip of the 

 petals. 



Hab. Said to be a native of Brazil. Described from a plant that flowered 

 at Kew in June, 1877. Introduced into Belgium in 1839. 



82. P. MACRANTHERA Andre Enum. 5. — Leaves oblanceolate- 

 acuminate, above 2 ft. long, 1^ in. broad at the middle, narrowed to 

 a spine-margined petiole, glabrous beneath. Peduncle clothed 

 with imbricated adpressed oblong bract-leaves. Complete inflor- 

 escence not seen ; pedicels short. Calyx arcuate, above 2 in. long. 

 Petals white, nearly 5 in. long. Stamens as long as the petals ; 

 anthers nearly an inch long. 



Hab. High plateau of Southern Columbia, on the sandy rocks of el 

 Espino, Andre 2593. 



83. P. Brongniartiana Andre Enum. 5. — Leaves very long. 



