4 NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
anthers ovate, acutish, about as long as the filaments. Style 
about equaling the stamens, stout. Capsule 13 to 15 mm. long. 
Collected by M. Bang, near Cochabamba, Bolivia, without 
number. Specimen unique. 
Species near 7. homostachya André. 
Tillandsia attenuata. 
Finely and densely furfuraceous. Leaves from a very short 
thick caudex, 2.5 to 4 dm. long, 7 or 8 mm. wide, regularly 
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Floral bracts about 1 cm. long, broadly ovate, acutish, strongly 
ribbed, the keel muricate. Flowers apparently shorter than 
the scales. Dissection material wanting. 
“On a tree in the forest near Manzanares, 3500 feet, Decem- 
ber 9. No duplicate." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
Tillandsia ($ Platystachya) marantoidea. 
abrous. Caudex stout, 15 to 20 ém. long, 2.5 cm. thick, 
densely clothed with fibrous remains of leaf bases. Leaves 
about 6 dm. long, 10 to 12 mm. wide, long-attenuate at the 
summit, bright-green, finely many-nerved, dilated at the sheath- 
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achis about 4.5 dm. 
long, forming a loose open panicle, the longest branches about 
I dm. long, the lower successively shorter and distant, the upper 
uer more approximate, some of them again branched, 
t 
t ; m. apart. Bracts 13 to 15 mm. long, the 
inner a little shorter, obtusish, not keeled, strongl 
many- 
nerved. Sepals 13 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, lanceolate, obtuse, 
Io-nerved, not keeled. Corolla 16 mm. long, the claw 
long, the limb spatulate, obtuse, 4 mm. broad, to-nerv E 
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nerves in pairs. Stamens m. shorter than the corolla, the 
anthers 3 mm. long, lanceolate, attached just below the middle 
| | . Ovary ovoid, obtuse, 3 mm. long. 
Style spirally twisted at the base. 
Miguel Bang, Bolivia (No. 2570). 
Species near T. rubra 
7 Dioscorea recurva. 
Staminate Plant.—Inflorescence ve 
Branchlets rather stout, 6-angled and s 
ry minutely roughened. 
ulcate, the angles sharp. 
