328 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEST INDIAN PLANTS 
ovate, brown, acute; bristles none; achene obovate-elliptic, I mm. 
long, smooth, light brown; tubercle compressed-conic, acute, one 
third to one half as long as the achene. 
Grassy plain, Aripo Savanna, Trinidad (Britton 2934). Per- 
haps most nearly related to R. Chapmani M. A. Curtis of the 
eastern United States. 
Bromelia aurea sp. nov. 
Leaves numerous, rigid, linear, long-attenuate, 6-8 dm. long, 
about 3 cm. wide, armed with distant curved prickles 4-5 mm. 
long. Scape rather slender, shorter than the basal leaves, bearing 
several prickle-armed small leaves; inflorescence brownish-floccose, 
about 3 dm. long; bracts lanceolate, membranous, acuminate, 
2-4 cm. long; bractlets ovate, membranous, strongly nerved, 
mucronate, oe I cm. long; flowers 2 to several together, the 
clusters 2-3 cm. ap t; sepals sinilar to the bractlets, about 1 cm. 
long; petals tinea shrek, yellow, about 3 cm. long and 2 mm. wide. 
Wooded hillside, near western end of Monos Island, Trinidad 
(Britton, Britton and Brown 2736). In flower Apiil 4, 1921. 
Related to B. chrysantha Jacq. of Venezuela. 
Aechmea porteoides sp. nov. 
Leaves firm in texture, linear with a somewhat broadened 
base, about 8 dm. long, 4-7 cm. wide, sharply acute, the margins 
armed with very numerous, approximate, nearly black, slightly 
curved spinules 4 mm. long or less; inflorescence paniculate, as 
long as the leaves or longer, its ultimate branches spreading, about 
6 ong, stellate-pubescent, slender, few-flowered; bracteoles 
subulate-acicular, 4-6 mm. long; flowers blue, about 20 mm. long; 
sepals striate, about 1 cm. long, with a terminal spinule 2-3 mm. 
long: ia about 1 cm. long, oblong. 
On the ground in mountain forests, Trinidad. Type from 
Mount Tocuche (Britton, Hazen and Mendelson 1 342). In flower 
April 5, 1920. Related to A. Fendleri of Venezuela. 
Tillandsia viscidula sp. nov. 
Basal leaves tufted, linear, 2.5-3.5 dm. long, flat, gradually 
narrowed upward, abruptly contracted at the apex and short- 
acuminate, the base ‘expanded and dark-blotched. Stem 3-5 
dm. high, erect, bearing leaves similar to the basal ones, but smaller, 
the upper ones 7 cm. long or less; panicle 3-5 dm. long, few- to 
several-branched, viscid; flowers yellow, distant, sessile, about 2 
