NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 1 5 



long, dark castaneous, the blade ligulate-attenuate with a stout termi- 

 nal cusp, II cm. broad, very laxly serrate with dark uncinate teeth 

 5 mm. long; scape stout, only the upper 15 cm. known, glabrous, dark 

 castaneous ; upper scape-bracts subf oliaceous, entire, large, erect, 

 densely imbricate ; inflorescence simple, densely strobilate, ellipsoid, 

 14 cm. long, 9 cm. in diameter including the sepals, covered with ap- 

 pressed white scales ; floral bracts cymbiform, enfolding the ovary 

 and the bases of the sepals, very thick and woody, broadly truncate 

 with a slender terminal mucro 3 mm. long; sepals 27 mm. long in- 

 cluding the slender 3 mm. long mucro, connate for 3 mm., the free 

 lobes ovate, asymmetric, dark castaneous, coriaceous ; petals and 

 stamens included, imperfectly known ; epigynous tube infundibuliform, 

 5 mm. long, seeds apparently abortive. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, Nos. 1952447 and 1952448, collected 

 between Milagres and Maracas, State of Baia, Brazil, altitude 450 meters, 

 Oct. 18, 1948, by M. B. Foster (No. 2452). 



Aechmea lingulata var. froesii L. B. Smith, var. nov. 



A var. lingulata ramis rectis plus minusve recurvatis, bracteis flori- 

 geris breviter mucronulatis, sepalis majoribus differt. 



Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected between 

 Colonia Itatinga and Bom Gosto, State of Baia, Brazil, November 1942, by 

 Ricardo de Lemos Froes (No. 19970). 



Aechmea lingulata var. patentissima (Mart, ex Schult.) L. B. Smith, comb, 

 nov. 



Billbergia patentissima Mart, ex Schult. in R. & S. Syst. 7 : pt. 2 : 1270. 

 1830. 



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



A Ae. bromeliifolia (Rudge) Baker, cui valde afifinis, vaginis foli- 

 orum et scapi bracteis purpureo-maculatis, bracteis florigeris apiculatis 

 differt. 



Caudex 6-9 dm. long ( ! Foster) ; flowering shoot 45 cm. high ; 

 leaves rosulate, 27 cm. long, the sheath broadly elliptic, 13 cm. long, 

 covered with white appressed scales, densely and coarsely purple- 

 spotted above, serrate toward apex, the blade ligulate, acute with the 

 extreme apex reflexed, 4 cm. wide, flat, white-lepidote beneath, soon 

 glabrous above, laxly serrate with brown spreading teeth 2 mm. long, 

 concolorous ; scape erect, 7 mm. in diameter sparsely white-flocculose ; 

 scape-bracts elliptic, thin, roseate, the lower ones erect, about equal- 

 ing the internodes, white-lepidote, serrulate at apex, the upper ones 



