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TAB. 6480.
PITCAIRNIA ANDEEANA.
Native of Venezuela and New Granada.
Nat. Ord. BEOMELIACE^:.•Tribe PITCAIRNIE-E.
Genus PITCAIENIA, L'JTerit.; {K. Koch in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 78).
PITCAIRNIA Andreana; acaulis, foliisbasalibus rosulatis, exterioribus rudimentariis
nullo modo spinosis, interioribus productis 4-G loratis aeutis integris pedalibus
vel sesquipedalibus facie viridibus cohspicue albo-lepidotis dorso subtiliter per-
sistenter albo-lepidotis, pedúnculo brevi lepidoto foliis paucis consimililms
reductis prsedito, racemo simplici compacto paucifloro, pedicellis brevibus
aseen dentib us, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, sepalis lanceolatis viridibus tenuiter
lepidotis, petalis oblanceolatis obtusis splendide rubro-luteis calyce triplo longi-
oribus, genitalibus petalis sequilongis.
P. Andreana, Linden in III. Hort. New Series, vol. xx. t. 139.
P. lepidota, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. ii. p. 435.
This new Pitcaimia is remarkable in the genus for its
dwarf habit, broad entire mealy leaves, and simple close
raceme of very large bright-coloured flowers, which shade
off from scarlet to bright yellow. -One of its nearest allies
is P.flavescens, figured Bot. Mag. tab. 6318, a species which
I find by comparison with an authenticated example kmdly
lent to us by the late Dr. Karl Koch, to be identical with
the earlier-named P. xanthocalyx of Martius. The present
plant was introduced by Linden in 1872 from the province
of Choco in New Granada, and about the same time was
sent home from Venezuela by Roezl. Our_ drawing was
made from a specimen that flowered at Kew in July, 18/9,
which was received from Dr. Regel.
DESCE. Whole plant under a foot high. Leave* aggre-
gated in a basal rosette, the outer undeveloped ones
entirely without spines on the edge, the inner developed
ones not more than four or six, lorate, chartaceous in
texture, acute, a foot or a foot and a half long, an inch or
an inch and a half broad at the middle, narrowed to about
a third of an inch above the base, the face green, scattered
HAUCH 1ST, 1880-