Pitcairnia stricta Andre[as Pitcairnia stricta ]

Diagnose: —folia angustata, lm.70 longa, congesta, supra glabra, infra furfuracea, ad basin fulvam dilatatam 45 cent. longam, spinis nigrescentibus rectis v. recurvis armatam amplectentia, mox in partem petîoliformem 30 cent. longarn, arcte convolutam contracta. denique in laminam lïneari-Ianceolatam acutam 4 cent. medio latarn dilatata. Caetera disiderantur.

Observations: —The specimen, collected at Piedra-Ancha in the southern Colombian Andes at 1340 m altitude, consists of leaves onlv, but these are remarkablv long. It does not remind one of anv other species and it is with great reservations that 1 dare to propose this as a new species.

Edited from : Andre 1889. (protologue) Bromeliaceae Andreanae. Description et Histoire des Bromeliacées, récoltées dans la Colombie, l\'Ecuador et la Venezuela .