PITCAIRNIA. 117 



|-2 in. long. Petals bright red, 2 in. long. Stamens as long as 

 the petals. 



Hab. French Guiana, Leprieur I Described from Brongniart's type- 

 specimen, grown in the Paris Garden in Nov., 1851, and Prof. Morren's drawing, 

 made from a plant that flowered at the Botanic Garden of Liege, July, 1873. 

 Habit of P. latlfolia. 



105. P. SEMijuNCTA Baker. — Leaves with a channelled petiole a 

 foot or more long margined with small black spines and a lanceo- 

 late very acuminate chartaceous blade 3 ft. long, above an inch 

 broad at the middle, margined with small black teeth in the upper 

 half, green and glabrous above, thinly brown-furfuraceous beneath. 

 Peduncle much shorter than the leaves. Inflorescence a dense 

 simple raceme 3-4 in. long ; pedicels erecto-patent, finally ^ in. 

 long ; bracts green, lanceolate, 1-2 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, an 

 inch long. Petals not seen, probably red. Capsule with an 

 obconic base adnate to the ovary ^ in. long ; free ovoid apex i in, 

 long. Seeds with a small nucleus and broad horny wing on three 

 sides. 



Hab. British Guiana ; Camounie Creek, Jenman 2041 ! 



106. P. AMAZONicA Baker. — Acaulescent. Leaves with an un- 

 armed channelled petiole a foot long, and an ensiform acuminate 

 unarmed entire chartaceous blade 2 ft. long, an inch broad at the 

 middle, green and glabrous above, thinly clothed with brown- 

 furfuraceous tomentum beneath. Peduncle 1^-2 ft. long ; bract- 

 leaves with long points. Raceme lax, simple, 4-6 in. long ; 

 pedicels ^-f in. long; bracts shorter than the pedicels. Sepals 

 lanceolate, |-1 in. long. Petals bright red, twice as long as the 

 sepals. Seeds with a horny border, not tailed. 



Hab. Amazon valley, near San Carlos, Spruce 3054 ! Very near P. 

 ruhiginosa. 



107. P. Leprieurii Baker. — Leaves thin, long petioled, lanceo- 

 late, entire, 3-4 ft. long, 2 in. broad at the middle, not distinctly 

 furfaraceous beneath. Peduncle a foot long. Inflorescence a 

 simple raceme 6-8 in. long, dense in the upper half; lower pedicels 

 "I in. long ; bracts lanceolate, lower longer than the pedicels. 

 Ovary adnate J in. ; sepals lanceolate, f in. long. Petals red, 

 twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. French Guiana, Leprieur \ (Herb. Mus. Paris). Gathered in 1838. 



Subgenus 8. Puyopsis. 



108. P. FiRMA Baker in Journ. Bot. 1881, 268. — Leaves linear, 

 very firm in texture for the genus, 1-1^ ft. long, ^-\ in. broad, 

 sessile, acuminate, the margin armed throughout with distant 

 ascending stramineous teeth ^-i in. long, the upper surface bright 

 green, the lower paler, but not furfuraceous. Peduncle sub- 

 glabrous, 1|— 2 ft. long ; bract-leaves all small. Piaceme lax, 

 simple, 6-9 in. long; rachis nearly naked ; pedicels ascending, the 

 lower J-^ in. long ; bracts small, lanceolate. Sepals lanceolate, 



