20 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 126 



Type in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Nos. 46221 and 46223, collected 

 near Cabo Frio, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 1899, by E. Ule. 



Araeococcus goeldianus L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 52 



A A. micrantho Brongniart, cui affinis, inflorescentiae ramis diver- 

 gentibus paulo ramosis leviter flexuosis differt. 



Stemless, 7 dm, high ; leaves few in an eUipsoid rosette, the outer 

 ones reduced to acute sheaths, the inner about equaling the inflores- 

 cence ; sheaths elliptic, about 25 cm. long ; blades ligulate, acute, nar- 

 rowed toward the base, flat, 4 cm. wide, laxly serrulate ; scape erect, 

 slender ; scape-bracts imbricate, lanceolate ; inflorescence laxly tripin- 

 nate, 28 cm. long; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts but 

 smaller, much shorter than the axillary branches ; branches divergent, 

 ID cm. long, few-branched, slightly flexuous, slender, very laxly 

 flowered; floral bracts suborbicular, 3 mm. long, apiculate, minutely 

 serrulate, membranaceous ; flowers spreading ; sepals free, oblong, 

 asymmetric, 2 mm. long, truncate and apiculate; petals and stamens 

 unknown ; fruit globose. 



Type in the herbarium of the Museu Goeldi, No. 1067, collected on trees or 

 granite rocks at Cunani, Territorio de Amapa, Brazil, Oct. 15, 1895, by J. Huber 

 (No. 983). Fragment and photograph in the U. S. National Herbarium. 



Billbergia amoena (Lodd.) Lindl. var. viridis L. B. Smith, var. nov. 



Differt petalis omnino viridibus. 



Differs from the typical variety in having its petals wholly green 

 instead of dark blue at the apex. 



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

 Santo, Brazil, July 27, 1939 (bloomed in cultivation June 1940), by M. B. & 

 R. Foster (No. 246). 



Billbergia euphemiae E. Morr. var. nudiflora L. B. Smith, var. nov, 



Differt inflorescentia subdensa, axi fere recto, bracteis florigeris 

 omnibus vel fere omnibus minutis. 



Differs from the typical variety by its subdense inflorescence, 

 nearly straight axis, and in having all or nearly all the floral bracts 

 minute. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected at Itapemirim, State of Espirito Santo, 

 Brazil, altitude 900 meters, July 7, 1939, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 159). 

 Duplicate in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. 



Additional specimens examined: 

 Espirito Santo : Monte Carlo, Collatina, July 19, 1939, M. B. & R. Foster 

 217 (GH). Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Aug. 17, 1940, M. B. & R. Foster 969 

 (GH, US). 



