Tab. 6318. 
PITCAIRNIA ELAVESCENS. 
Native of Topical America . 
Nat. Ord. Bromeliace^e. — Tribe Pitcairnie^e. 
Genus Pitcairnia, L'Herit. {K. Koch in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 78.) 
Pitcatrnia jlavescens ; acaulis, foliis circiter 20 dense rosulatis lorato-lanceolatis 
tenuiter cliartaceis 2-3-pedalibus facie viridibus dorso albidis aculeis 
marginalibus nullis, scapo sesquipedali tenuiter floccoso foliis 3-4-valde 
reductis, linearibus bracteato, racemo laxo subpedali, pedicellis patulis petalis 
2-3 -plo brevioribus bracteis lanceolatis longioribus, ovario basi distincte 
immerso, sepalis coriaceis lanceolatis nudis petalis lingulatis pallide luteis 
basi squamatis subtriplo brevioribus, genitalibus petalis sequilongis. 
Cochliopetalum flavescens, Beer, Die Famil. der Bromel. p. 69. 
This is a fine plant, which has been known in cultivation 
for several years, but which has never been figured or 
even fully described. Its nearest ally is P. alhiflos , Herbert 
in Bot. Mag. t. 2642, ( Cochliopetalum albiflos , Beer), but this 
has milk-white flowers and narrower leaves, green on the under- 
side. By Karl Koch, in his monograph of this large and 
intricate genus above cited, it is placed doubtfully under 
P. odorata , Kegel in Gartenflora, tab. 114, ( Cochliopetalum 
Schuchii, Beer), but this also is a plant with milk-white 
petals and leaves green on both surfaces. Its precise country 
is not known, and I have looked for it in vain amongst the 
wild specimens of Pitcairnia in the London herbaria. Our 
drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the 
Balm Stove at Kew in April of this present year. 
Descr. Acaulescent. Leaves about twenty in a dense 
rosette, linear -lorate, two to three feet long, an inch or 
an inch and a quarter broad at the middle, narrowed to the 
point and downwards to a channelled haft three or four lines 
broad, not a proper petiole, bright green on the face, white 
furfuraceous all over the under surface, entirely without 
marginal prickles. Pcape a foot and a half long, slightly 
SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1877. 
