103 
Liliacee. H. per. resembling P. Co- | Pitcairnia ^ Darbla allier. 
lensoi, with "Maced kapa l., fissured (Jard. 1888, p. 201; Yon W. d 1888, 
at the apex, of a pale green without a p. 383.) Puuaelisseni: "Garden hybrid. 
coloured margin ; and a tall panicle of : 
— eurved fl, with the outer s. (G 
nts yellow, and the —€— and F. 1888, v. 1, p. 195.) An attrac- 
pm red. New Zen tive species with a bulb-lik , com- 
posed of very short, broadly sheathing 1., 
Phillyrea decora, Boiss. ed spi 
CU C. 1888; V. 4& p. era, $ $5 m L. linear, erect, ed, 
Oleacee. H. shr. The above is the scurfy beneath. ^ Fl-stem glabrou 
earliest name for P. Vilmoriniana, bracteate. Fl. numerous, pedicellate ; 
Boiss bracts n cal » VE pnis i 
corolla nearly long, carlet. 
Phiytilaios decandra albo-varie- Mexico. go he Reg: in aur dir 
ata. (Jard. 1888, p. 59, with fig.) Pitcai s (G 
PAMOlOmINS.- O4 F.1888,v.1,p. 209, and 211 f.38.) A 
Picea pungens, var. M cres Engelm. small species, with a bulbous base formed 
Gl 6 8, p. 70.) Conifere. H. of b e h — and — filiform 
vem is e coneced name for the tree * n the barren shoots 
gardens as P. Parryana var. eges hairy, bns on ae flowering 
Somat shoot, bar . stem with de 
subulate enti tire 1. m in A ne — e, 
Pilocereus Bruennowii, Haage. (H. bracts narrow, half 
G. 1888, p. 85, with fig.) Cactacee. 
G. or S. succolent ca columnar, 9-12 
ith 
ee Y and stouter um longer 
hairs. Boliv 
Pilocereua oasi, Pen, sot 
1888, p. 8, with fig.) G. o suc- 
acute grooves poes n them Pulvini 
about 20 E DAL in len ngth, the lower 
ones lon S white, central 
spines 6-8, brownish, stout at the base, 
lower ade Ln much as 2} in. long. 
Mexico. 
Pinanga LN. Bull. (Bull Cat. c 
e d og ort. Int. Cat. 1888-9, p. 5 2.) 
elegant palm with short 
ond petioles, and the blade pin- 
nately divided i unequal xul 
c oung leaves inan red, changing to 
eep tms faintly mottled with darker. 
Ean Ind 
Pinus ponderosà, var. SCO 
Engelm. (H. G. 1888, p. 559.) j o! 
nifere. ee. ` A variety with coded 
l. and smaller cones. Roc ky M 
tains. 
— rubrovenosum, Rodigas. is 
1887, ve 91, pl. 33; and H. G. 
Pi 
1888, 24.) iperaees. 8S 
St climber, t ordate- 
acuminate, ght green 1 
above, with rosy along the course of 
the veins, green beneat [ 8 
ely to differ from the plant I 
t f. 
scare 
Geactibadd as Piper Ornatum.— 
B.] 
- Pirus. See Pyrus. 
vare oper Corolla pr in. do 
light re red. Mex 
Piihecoctenium DUE cinstorium, Be. 
1888, p. 272, t. 11.) 
ss Robe This is the Tonite * 
climber, figured by Lindley in the 
Botanical R Beier, 1. 1301 as Bignonia 
cherere, but is distinct from B. cherere, 
Aubl. 
Pittosporum phillyreo: 
coides, DC 
T.O. npn S aaa ttosporeæ. 
A graceful G. shr. with slender drooping 
br: Lin nd L, 2-3 in. ong, and 
` axillary 'yellow fl. about 3 of an in. in 
valle 
platystachys, 
Pleurothallis Regel. 
CGA. 1888, p. 459.) Orchideæ. Tufted. 
d pm sone sete iN 2-toothed 2 
aslong 
4 Pkecled, pikes. | "dull green bi: 
and a compressed spike of small green 
fl., dotted with purple. Brazil. 
Pleurothallis punc 
unctulata, Rolfe. (G. 
C. € v. 4 p ee Rather a pretty 
E L. 
u 
glaucous below, on stems about 2 in. 
high. long. Fl. ani 
brown. Up 
acute ; side sep. united into a concave 
New 
oblon me body, bifid at apex. 
Gre 
PENTR Roezli, 
species, with large purple-brown fl. 
L. 3-5 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, oblong- 
lanceolate, 2-toothe at the apex. 
Pedunele rather rer than the 1., the 
flo enden ng pa angi ger em t 
in a one-sided raceme, about ong, 
the a sep. nearly reap with the 
