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naked, ^-f in. long. Petals Ungulate, bright red, 2 in. long. 

 Stamens as long as the petals. 



Hab. Country unknown. Described from a cultivated specimen in the 

 herbarium of Dr. Karl Koch, where it was labelled " P. Jacksoni.'' 



109. p. BRACHYSTACHYA Baker. — Acaulescent, the whole plant 

 9-14 in. high. Leaves in a dense basal rosette, ensiform-acuminate 

 from an ovate base, -J ft. long, ^-^ in. broad above the base, 

 tapering gradually to a long point, green, glabrous and channelled 

 down the face, persistently lepidote on the back, armed with small 

 hooked brown homy marginal spines. Peduncle erect, 6-10 in. 

 long ; upper bract-leaves ovate, adpressed, scariose. Flowers few, 

 in a dense erect simple subspicate raceme 2-3 in. long; flower- 

 bracts ovate, acute, membranous, an inch long ; pedicels very short. 

 Sepals ovate, acute, J in. long. Petals apparently pale, twice as 

 long as the calyx, twisted after flowering. Capsule under -|- in. 

 long, rigid, septicidally 3-valved. Seeds with a broad horny border 

 all round. 



Hab. Mountains of Santa Marta, Purdie ! Collected in 1844. 



110. P. PRUiNosA HBK. Nov. Gen. i. 395. — Leaves lanceolate, 

 a foot long, 1^ in. broad, firm in texture, deltoid-cuspidate at the 

 apex, armed from base to apex with spreading blackish deltoid- 

 cuspidate prickles ^-| in. long. Inflorescence a lax simple raceme ; 

 pedicels erecto-patent, ^-f in. long ; flower-bracts ovate, very 

 small. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, an inch long. Petals bright 

 red, twice as long as the sepals. Seeds with a horny border, not 

 tailed. 



Hab. Island of Pararuma in the Orinoco, Humboldt d- Bonplajid 870! 

 (Herb. Paris). 



111. P. DYCKioiDEs Baker. — Leaves naked, linear, rigid, ^ ft. 

 long, ^ in. broad, armed with small distant hooked spines. 

 Peduncle slender, ^ ft. long ; bract-leaves long-pointed, erect, 

 spine-margined. Inflorescence simple or slightly compound, 6-9 in. 

 long; flower-bracts ovate, rigid, spine-margined, -i— 1 in. long; 

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

 twice as long as the sepals. 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia ; Chuquisaca, Weddell 3739 1 Pomabamba, Weddell 

 3881 ! (Herb. Paris). 



112. P. viOLACEA A. Brong. in Ann. Flore et Pom. 1847, 116, 

 with figure ; Allg. Gartenzeit. xv. 299. — Leaves rigid, linear, a foot 

 long, J-^ in. broad low down, green above, thinly white-lepidote 

 beneath, armed all the way up with small toothed spines. 

 Peduncle twice as long as the leaves ; bract-leaves small, scariose. 

 Inflorescence a lax panicle 6-8 in. long and broad, with 3-4 laxly 

 racemose branches ; flower-bracts very small, ovate ; pedicels 

 erecto-patent, J in. long. Sepals lanceolate, ^ in. long. Petals 

 violet, an inch longer than the sepals. 



Hab. Said to be Mexican, but more likely to be Andine. Introduced in 

 1833. Described from a specimen in the Paris Herbarium, flowered by M. 

 Neumann at Neuilly, m Aug., 1847. 



