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0.5 mm. long ; petals fleshy, imperfectly known ; epigynous tube con- 

 spicuous, broad-based. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected at Santa Teresa, State of Espirito 

 Santo, Brazil, Aug. 5, 1940, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 831). 



Aechmea chlorophylla L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 107 



K Ae. hromeliijoUa (Rudge) Baker, cui affinis, bracteis florigeris 

 sepalisque nullo modo retusis, petalis basi appendiculatis differt. 



Leaves 5 dm. long, green, wholly covered with coarse pale appressed 

 scales, sheaths broadly elliptic, 12 cm. long, blades ligulate, acute, 



3 cm. wide, laxly serrate with spreading teeth 3 mm. long; scape 



4 dm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, densely white-flocculose ; scape-bracts 

 thin, roseate, white-lepidote, the lower ones elliptic, about equaling 

 the internodes, serrate near their apices, the upper ones lanceolate, 

 much exceeding the internodes and massed below the inflorescence, 

 entire ; inflorescence simple, densely strobilate, ellipsoid, 7-9 cm. 

 long, 35-40 mm. in diameter, covered with white appressed scales ; 

 floral bracts suberect, broadly cymbiform, broadly acute or obtuse 

 and apiculate, thick-coriaceous and bicarinate or tricarinate but near 

 the apex rather thin and distinctly nerved, about equaling the ovary ; 

 sepals strongly asymmetric, 12 mm. long, connate for 2 mm., un- 

 armed; petals erect, 20 mm. long, bearing 2 lacerate scales at base, 

 fleshy, quickly turning black; epigynous tube broad, conspicuous, 

 placentae apical, ovules long-caudate. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected at Santa Teresa, State of Espirito 

 Santo, Brazil, Aug. 6, 1940 (bloomed in cultivation, June 1942), by M. B. & 

 R. Foster (No. 830). 



Additional specimen examined: 

 Espirito Santo: Near Santa Teresa, 1939, M. B. & R. Foster 176-b (GH). 



Aechmea comata (Gaud.) Baker var. makoyana (Mez) L. B. Smith, comb, 

 nov. 



Aechmea lindenii var. makoyana Mez, Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 32:159. 

 1934- 



Aechmea leucolepis L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure iio 



A Ae. sphaerocephala (Gaud.) Baker, cui affinis, bracteis superi- 

 oribus scapi integris, inflorescentia lepidibus albidis adpressis obtecta 

 differt. 



Forming dense clusters ; flowering shoot to 4 m. high ( ! Foster) ; 

 leaves to 4 m. long ( ! Foster), the single leaf of the type i.i m. long, 

 wholly covered with pale appressed scales, the sheath elliptic, 3 dm. 



