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beautiful as many others, but of noble habit and very distinct. Oni 
grand example was exhibited at the E.H.S. Temple Show recently under 
the name of P. chilensis. It was grown in the open air at the Tresco 
Abbey Gardens of the Scilly Isles, and placed in front of the royal da'is 
P. lanuginosa, that the plants in the Scilly Isles, which flowered in 
1872, and were pourtrayed in the columns of a contemporary as 
P. chilensis, and this seems to refer to the same plant as that exhibited. 
Some of the Puyas attain a great height; for instance, P. gigas is 
FIG. 75.—A GIGANTIC BROMELIAD. 
Us tall flower stems rising from a dense rosette of long leaves had very 
imposing effect. Of this plant a representation is given in fig. 75. It 
has been depicted elsewhere under the name given above, t ut according 
to Mr. J. G. Baker the correct name is Puia lanuginosn. In his mono¬ 
graph of the Bromeliace® he mentions, under the description of 
said to grow 20 or 30 feet high, while another has been described by a 
traveller as 33 feet high, and bearing a panicle of 8000 flowers. Of the 
true P. chilensis a painting is included in Miss North’s gallery at Kew, 
and it is one of the few that possess any economic use, for it is said 
the stems arc cut up and used as corks or bungs, the spines being 
