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Tar. 8348. 
NEOGLAZIOVIA concotor. 
Brazil. 
BROMELIACEAE. Tribe BILLBERGIEAE. 
Negoeuiaziovia, Mez in Mart. Flor. Bras. vol. iii. pars 3, pp. 180, 426; Engl. & 
Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. Nachtr. i. p. 66. 
Neoglaziovia concolor, C. H. Wright; species N. variegatae, Mez, affinis sed 
foliis uniformiter albo-lepidotis distincta. 
Herba, caulis abbreviatus. Folia 5-8, linearia, acuminata, basi crassa vaginata, 
rigida, albo-lepidota, 40-60 cm. longa, 2°5 cm. lata; spinae inter se 
1-1°5 cm. distantes, 4 mm. longae, basi compressae, subulatae, incurvae 
vel rarins rectae, aliquando parte foliorum suprema obsoletae. Racemus 
terminalis, quam folia brevior; pedunculus albo-floccosus ; bracteae Janceo- 
latae, albo-floccosae, infima 10 cm. longa, superiores gradatim minores ; 
pedicelli 5 mm. longi, patentes. Ca/yx cinnabarinus, ovoideus, glaber, 
1-5 cm. longus; lobi breves, obtusi. /etala violacea, oblongo-spathulata, 
obtusa, 2 cm. longa; squamae basilares 2 mm. longae, laceratae. 
Staminum filamenta 1°7 cm. longa, crassa; antherae dorsifixae, ovales, 
albae, 2 mm. longae; pollinis granulae ellipticae, longitudinaliter 1-sul- 
catae, eporosae. Ovarium inferum, ovulis in loculis paucis; stylus 
staminibus aequilongus, ramis 3 brevibus spiraliter contortis instructus.— 
C. H. Wrieat. 
The Bromeliad here. figured is a native of the northern 
portion of the State of Bahia in Brazil, where it is known 
as the Makimbeira; here it grows in association with the 
Carod, a very nearly allied plant referred by Baker to the 
genus Dyckia as D. Glaziovii, but treated by Mez, perhaps 
more satisfactorily, as the type of a distinct genus Neogla- 
ziovia. From the Carodé (NV. variegata) the Makimbeira 
(N. concolor) differs in its shorter stature and in having its 
leaves uniformly white-lepidote, the younger parts are 
indeed almost woolly; the leaves of N. variegata are 
glabrous or only very minutely lepidote, and when fresh 
are conspicuously marked with lighter transverse bars 
which in dried specimens become obscure or disappear 
entirely. The leaves of both species furnish fibre; that of 
the Caroa is well known and comes chiefly from the 
Queimadas District; it is made into ropes for binding 
Decemser, 1910. 
