ing, very slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect and en- 
folding the scape, barely or not imbricate and exposing 
sections of the scape but their caudate apices always ex- 
ceeding the internodes, very obscurely lepidote; inflores- 
cence simple, linear, complanate, 4-6 em. long, 1-1.5 
cm. wide; rhachis slender, subterete; floral bracts laxly 
imbricate and exposing parts of the rhachis, broadly el- 
liptic, subacute, 15-18 mm. long, much exceeding the 
sepals, ecarinate, subcoriaceous, nerved when dry, gla- 
brous outside or sparsely lepidote near the apex, pale 
yellow (! Schultes); pedicels very short, broadly obconic: 
sepals free, oblong, obliquely subtruncate, 8.5 mm. long, 
ecarinate, thin, nerved, sparsely lepidote; petals oblong, 
obtuse, 13 mm. long, bearing 2 large, obtuse, entire 
scales at base; stamens included; capsules shorter than 
the floral bracts. 
In my key to the Tillandsiae (in Contributions from 
the U.S. National Herbarium 29 (1951) 448-455) this 
species would fall next to Tv//landsia incurva Griseb. and 
T. patula Mez, since the arrangement is frankly artificial. 
Its pale leaf-sheaths and small dimensions throughout 
easily distinguish it from both without reference to its 
appendaged petals. The nearest species of Vriesia is V’. 
Barclayana (Baker) L. B. Smith, but this last differs 
basically in its alate rhachis, while also being immediately 
distinguishable by size and brown leaf-sheaths. 
CotompiA: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Apaporis, Raudal de Jiri- 
jirimo. “On ledge of conglomerate quartzite. Savannah (caatinga).*’ 
March 1951, Richard Evans Schultes 12088 (Tyrer in U.S. Nat. Herb. 
No. 2048059).—Same locality. November 25-26, 1951, H. Garcia- 
Barriga 13710. 
VELLOZIACEAE 
Vellozia Maudeana R. i. Schultes sp. nov. 
Frutex usque ad duos pedes altus. Caudex subligno- 
sus, erectus vel saepe procumbens, basi ad 6-8 cm. in 
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