Gardens at Kew, in the hope that this precious little gem 
might be introduced to horticulture, but both attempts 
were failures. 
Cotomsi1a: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Caqueté, Araracuara. Sa- 
bana de Angostura. Alt. 400 m. Suelo pedregoso, con arena blanca. 
‘“Yerba erecta. Inflorescencia 0.48 m. Flores blancas en el dpice, en 
la base rojas.”” December 21, 1951, H. Garcia-Barriga & Richard 
Evans Schultes 14172. 
BROMELIACEAE 
(Contributed by Lyman B. Smith) 
Pitcairnia macarenensis L. B. Smith sp. nov. 
Pitcairniae pungentt HBK. in systema Mezii proxima, 
sed foliis majoribus integerrimis petiolatis, vaginis folio- 
rum atro-castaneis, laminis foliorum lineari-lanceolatis 
canaliculatis differt. 
Stemless, the flowering shoot 55 cm. high; leaves en- 
tire, dimorphic, some reduced to broadly ovate apiculate 
dark castaneous sheaths, others over 1 meter long with 
slender elongate petioles, the blades linear-lanceolate 
with a strong median channel, filiform-acuminate, 30-35 
mm. wide, flat, glabrous; scape erect, slender, sparsely 
white-flocculose; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, sparsely pale-lepidote; inflorescence 
simple, dense, 7-9 cm. long, white-flocculose except for 
the petals; floral bracts narrowly triangular, much ex- 
ceeding the pedicels, pale green; pedicels slender, 8 mm. 
long; flowers suberect; sepals lance-oblong, acute, 28 
mm. long, the posterior ones strongly carinate; petals 
slightly zygomorphic, linear, obtuse, 45 mm. long, red, 
bearing a large oblong truncate scale at base; stamens 
included; ovary three-fifths superior; ovules caudate. 
Cotompia: Intendencia del Meta, northeastern end of Cordillera La 
Macarena, slopes of Cuchillo Palmitas, Macizo Renjifo. Alt. 1,500 m. 
“On rocks.’’ March 1951, Richard Evans Schultes 12126 (Tyre in U.S. 
Nat. Herb. No. 2048070). 
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