PITCAIRNTA. 



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

 on both surfaces. Peduncle erect, a foot or more long. Inflor- 

 escence a dense erect cylindrical subspicate raceme ^-1 ft. long ; 

 flower-bracts closely adpressed, ovate-acuminate, claret-brown with 

 a green tip, the lower 2 in. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 

 glabrous, an inch long. Petals lingulate, sulphur-yellow, scaled at 

 the base, more than twice as long as the calyx. Stamens reaching 

 to the tip of the petals. 



Hab. Country unknown. First flowered at Kew in 1853, received from the 

 Hanover Garden. 



91. P. ocHEOLEUCA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1881, 306. Neumannm 

 ochroleuca K. Koch et Bouche Ind. Sem. Berol. 1856, App. 2. — 

 Acaulescent. Leaves not distinctly petioled, lanceolate, 2-3 ft. 

 long, 1|~2 in. broad at the middle, entire, green and glabrous on 

 both sides. Peduncle a foot long, floccose. Inflorescence a dense 

 subspicate raceme a foot long ; flower-bracts greenish-brown, ovate, 

 acute, l|-2 in. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, an inch long. 

 Petals sulphur-yellow, not scaled at the base. 



Hab. Country unknown. Salvin and Godman's Guatemalan plant, figured 

 by Hemsley in Bot. Amer. Cent. t. 85, which I formerly referred here, appears 

 to be properly P. pctioluta, but all the species from 84 to 92 are near allies. 



92. P. iMBRicATA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1881, 307. Keunumnia 

 imhricatci Brong. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xv. 362 (M.D.). Phl.ovio- 

 stachys inihricata Beer Brom. 47. — Acaulescent. Leaves 12-20 to a 

 stem, with a channelled petiole i in. long armed with small 

 prickles and a recurving chartaceous lanceolate blade 1^-2 ft. long, 

 1|— 2 in. broad at the middle, green and glabrous on both surfaces. 

 Peduncle a foot long, hidden by its bract-leaves. Inflorescence a 

 cylindrical subspicate raceme a foot long; flower-bracts ovate, acute, 

 green, closely imbricated, 1^-2 in. long ; pedicels very short. Sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate, an inch long, whitish-green. Petals cream- 

 white, lingulate, more than twice as long as the sepals. Stamens 

 reaching nearly to the tip of the petals. 



Hab. Central Mexico, Bourgeau 1778 1 Described from a plant that 

 flowered at Kew, Oct., 1879. Grown at Berlin in 1843. 



93. P. EHODOSTACHYS Hassk. in Retzia ii. 8. — Leaves with a 

 petiole above a foot long and lanceolate blade 2-3 ft. long, 2-2^ in. 

 broad at the middle, very acuminate, plain green and glabrous above, 

 white beneath. Peduncle arachnoid, 1^ ft. long. Eaceme dense, 

 arachnoid, 8-9 in. long, 1-|- in. diam. ; flower-bracts oblong or 

 ovate-oblong, cinnabar-red, the lowest 2 in. long. Sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, red towards the tip, yellow at the base. Petals whitish. 



Hab. Country unknown. A garden plant, known to me only by Hasskarl's 

 description. 



94. P. NIGRA Andre Enum. 5. Nemnannia niqra E. Morren 

 Cat. 1873, 11 ; Carrierein Rev. Hort. 1881, 390, with figure (M.D.). 

 — Shortly caulescent. Produced leaves about a dozen to a stem, 

 oblong-hmceolate, 9-12 in. long, 2-3 in. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed gradually to the base and an acute point, recurving, 



