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cuspidate, margined with deltoid teeth, clothed, like the calyx, 

 with reddish woolly toinentum. Sepals oblong, densely tomentose, 

 an inch long. Petals oblong-spathulate, pale green, twice as long 

 as the calyx. Stamens as long as the petals. 

 Hab. Andes of Ecuador, Andre 3739. 



10. P. ^QUATORiALis Andre Enum. 5. — Subcaulescent. Leaves 

 few, arcuate, ensiform, 3 ft. long, above an inch broad, slightly 

 lepidote, very finely striated beneath, bordered with robust yellow 

 hooked spines. Peduncle including the panicle 4|— 5 ft. long ; 

 branches of the panicle short, stout, spreading, reddish, slightly 

 cottony ; racemes dense, cylindrical ; llower-bracts ovate, acute, 

 I in. long ; pedicels stout, nearly as long as the bracts. Sepals 

 oblong, subacute, under an inch long. Petals dark violet, obovate, 

 above an inch long. Stamens and style rather shorter than the 

 petals. 



Var. ALBiFLORA Andre. — Petals white. Flower-bracts longer 

 than in the type. 



Hab. Andes of Ecuador ; fissures of dry rocks in the deep valley of the 

 Rio Chota, alt. 6000—7000 ft., Andre 3564. The variety by the Eio Pisque, 

 Andre 3596. 



11. P. BOLiviENSis Baker. — Leaves rigid, ensiform, a foot long, 

 f in. broad at the base of the blade, armed with large distant mar- 

 ginal spines. Inflorescence an ample panicle with racemose 

 branches, the end one a foot long, the side ones shorter ; rachises 

 and bracts floccose ; pedicels erecto-patent, ^ in. long ; flower- 

 bracts lanceolate. Sepals lanceolate, an inch long. Petals twisted, 

 twice as long as the sepals. Capsule globose, loculicidal, shorter 

 than the calyx. 



Hab. Andes of Bolivia; Cobija, Gaudichaud ! (Herb. Par.). 



12. P. BoNPLANDiANA Schultcs fil. Syst. Yeg. vii. 1236. 

 Pourretia pyramidata H.B.K. Nov. Gen. i. 296, non R. & P. 

 P. Achiipalla Hort. Linden. — Whole plant about 10 ft. high. 

 Caudex woody, 3-4 ft. long. Leaves densely rosulate, ensiform- 

 acuminate, 1^ ft. long, f-1 in. broad at the base, narrowed 

 gradually to the point, not so thick and rigid as in P. chilensis, 

 green and glabrous above, obscurely lepidote beneath, armed with 

 distant middle-sized falcate horny spines. Peduncle much longer 

 than the leaves. Inflorescence a panicle of numerous peduncled 

 dense oblong racemes 5-6 in. long : branch-bracts ovate, acute, 

 2-3 in. long ; pedicels 4-5 lines long, floccose like the rachis and 

 bracts; flower- bracts ovate, woolly outside, above an inch long. 

 Sepals oblong-lanceolate, an inch long. Petals white, twice as 

 long as the calyx. Capsule ovoid-trigonous, brown, glabrous, 

 shorter than the calyx. Seeds small, with a broad white horny 

 border all round. 



Hab. Temperate region of the Andes of New Granada, Humboldt <£• Bon- 

 pland 2120! Goudotl Holtonl Native name " Achupalla," under which it is 

 figured in Humboldt's ' Views of the Cordilleras,' tab. 30. 



13. P. cmLENSis Mohna Sag. Chil. edit. 2, 284 ; Hook, in Bot. 

 Ma"-, t. 4715 ; Flore des Serres, t. 869-870 ; Kegel Gartenfl. t. 225. 



