Aechmea Huebneri Harms in Notizbl. 10 (1929) 
581. 
Described from Mandos in Amazonian Brazil, Aechmea 
Huebner has hitherto not been reported from Colombia. 
Here, it is a large plant of the lightly shaded slopes, as 
shown by the accompanying habit photograph, but it 
apparently does not occur on the sun-flooded tops of 
these sandstone mountains. 
Cotomspia: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Piraparand, Raudal M6-ké, 
Cerro Ee-ree-ee-ké-mee-b-kee. ““Terrestrial. Inflorescence axis and 
bracts scarlet. Flowers purple. Leaves inside deep purple-brown at 
base, full of fierce ants. Small leaves purple within nearly whole 
length.’’ September 18, 1952, Richard Evans Schultes & Isidoro Cabrera 
17494. 
Aechmea stenosepala L. B. Smith sp. nov. 
A Aechmea pubescenti Baker, cui affinis, inflorescentia 
dense bipinnata, sepalis magnis, anguste oblongis differt. 
Over 6 dm. high; leaves presumably rosulate and form- 
ing an ellipsoid tank, to 52 cm. long, covered with closely 
appressed scales, sheaths broadly elliptic, castaneous, 
those of the outer leaves 17 cm. long, those of the inner 
25 em. long, blades of the outer leaves ligulate, broadly 
acute and recurved near the apex, 8 cm. wide, cinereous- 
lepidote, laxly serrate with dark ascending flat teeth 6 
mm. long, blades of the inner leaves vestigial; scape 
erect, 5 mm. in diameter, white-lanate; scape-bracts 
lanceolate, acute, about equaling the internodes, mem- 
branaceous, rose-purple, densely pale-lepidote, laxly and 
obscurely serrulate; inflorescence bipinnate, densely el- 
lipsoid, 12 cm. long; lowest primary bracts like the scape- 
bracts, the others greatly reduced; spikes divergent, 
densely few-flowered; rhachis angled but not alate or 
excavated, densely pale-lanate; floral bracts distichous, 
much more than twice as long as the internodes but 
spreading and not imbricate, broadly ovate, acuminate, 
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