NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH I7 



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

 Santo, Brazil, altitude 765 meters, July 2^, 1939, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 

 293). Duplicate in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. 



Additional specimen examined: 

 Espirito Santo: Santa Teresa, Aug. 5, 1940, M. B. & R. Foster 806 

 (GH). 



Aechmea nervata L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 105 



A Ae. lamarchei Mez, cui verisimiliter affinis, bracteis florigeris 

 tenuibus valde nervatis, sepalis breviter connatis differt. 



Flowering plant 6 dm. high ; leaves unknown ; scape straight, 6 mm. 

 in diameter; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, broadly elliptic 

 with a pungent brown terminal cusp, covered with fine white ap- 

 pressed scales, the lowest ones serrulate near the apex, the central 

 ones over lo cm. long, the higher ones entire; inflorescence simple, 

 strobilate, cylindric, acute, 9 cm. long, 25 mm. in diameter, white- 

 flocculose, becoming glabrous ; floral bracts erect, densely imbricate, 

 very broadly ovate with a long soft acuminate apex, 16 mm. long, 

 about equaling the sepals, nearly flat, thin, strongly nerved; sepals 

 8 mm. long, connate for 2 mm., the free lobes asymmetric, subelliptic 

 with an acute but soft apex ; petals imperfectly known, bearing 2 

 subentire scales near the base ; epigynous tube 1.5 mm. long, placentae 

 apical, ovules apiculate. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected on the literal at Vitoria, State of 

 Espirito Santo, Brazil, July 1939, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 176-A). 



Aechmea nudicaulis (L.) Griseb. var. aureo-rosea (Antoine) L. B. Smith, 

 comb. nov. 



Hoplophytum aureo-roscum Antoine, Wien 111. Gartenzeit. 6 : 97, pi. i. 1881. 



Aechmea ornata var. hoehneana L. B. Smith, var. nov. Figure 104 



Differt inflorescentia graciliore, floribus gracilioribus, petalis azureis. 

 Differs from the typical variety in its more slender inflorescence 

 and flowers and blue petals. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected at Paiol do Meio, State of Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil, Sept. 19, 1940, by Augusto Gehrt. Duplicate in the Institute de Botanica, 

 Sao Paulo (No. 43156). 

 Additional specimens examined: 

 Sao Paulo: Sao Bernardo, Aug. 15, 1895, G. Edwall (SP). 

 Parana: In sw^amp near sea level, Caioba, Sept. i, 1939, M. B. & R. Foster 

 452 (GH). 



