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PITCAIRNIA bromeliefolia. 
Pine-Apple-leaved Pitcairnia. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BRoMELIACER. 
PITCAIRNIA, L’Herit.— Calyx inferus duplex uterque tripartitus; ~ 
interior corollaceus; laciniis basi squama instructis. Capsula trigona, tri- 
locularis; loculis polyspermis. Semzna nuda. Caulis herbaceus, erectus, 
simplex. Folia angusta, spinosa. Flores spicati, bracteat?. Kunth. synops. 
1. 297. 
P. bromeliefolia; foliis ciliato-spinosis, pedunculis germinibusque glaberri- 
mis, Azt. Kew. 1.401. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 10. 
P. bromelicefolia, L’Herit. sert. angl. 7. t. 11. Swartz. ind. occ. 1. 580. 
Bot. mag. 824. 
Hepetis angustifolia. Swartz. prodr. 56. 
A handsome stove plant, in its native country growing 
in shady places among rocks and precipices in the island 
' of Jamaica. Our drawing was made in the Garden of 
’ Henry Bellenden Ker, Esq., in the summer of 1825. 
Not having had an opportunity of examining specimens, 
we are unable to give a description of the plant. 
J. L. 
