NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 21 



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



Differt foliis pallide maculatis, hand transverse vittatis. 



Differs in its leaves which have pale spots instead of transverse 

 bands. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2120883, collected near Maracas, 

 State of Baia, Brazil, Oct. 19, 1948 (bloomed in cultivation December 1953), 

 by M. B. Foster (No. 2470). 



Billbergia fosteriana L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 122 



A B. saundersii Hort. Bull, cui affinis, inflorescentia erecta, foliis 

 transverse zonatis differt. 



Terrestrial, stoloniferous, flowering shoot 45-60 cm. long; leaves 

 few, to 85 cm. long, densely pale-lepidote and cross-banded beneath, 

 the sheaths as long as or longer than the blades, forming a very 

 slender tube, the blades ligulate, acute and apiculate, 3 cm. wide, laxly 

 serrulate ; scape erect, slender, white-flocculose ; scape-bracts suberect, 

 lanceolate, 9 cm. long, membranaceous, rose fading to stramineous 

 by anthesis, white-flocculose, the upper ones much exceeding the 

 internodes; inflorescence erect, simple, laxly few-flowered, white- 

 flocculose ; axis slender, geniculate ; floral bracts much shorter than 

 the pedicels, ovate, acute ; pedicels divergent to spreading, very slender, 

 to 18 mm. long ; flowers erect, making an angle with the pedicels ; 

 sepals elliptic, apiculate, 20 mm. long, lavender ; petals 50 mm. long, 

 green with blue-green apices, bearing 2 fimbriate scales at the base 

 and 2 dentate lateral folds above them ; stamens and pistil included ; 

 ovary subcylindric, 12 mm. long, epigynous tube infundibuliform. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2120880, collected near Maracas, 

 State of Baia, Brazil, Oct. 18, 1948 (bloomed in cultivation December 1953), 

 by M. B. Foster (No. 2447 in part). 



Billbergia iridifolia (Nees & Mart.) Lindl. var. concolor L. B. Smith, var. 

 nov. 



Differt petalis omnino pallide aureis. 



Differs from the typical variety in having the petals pale yellow 

 throughout instead of dark blue at the apex. 



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

 Santo, Brazil, in 1939, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 160). 



Additional specimen examined: 



Espirito Santo : On rocks, Vitoria, Aug. 9, 1940, M. B. & R. Foster 873 

 (GH). 



