NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 23 



Bromelia interior L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 80 



A B, glaziovii Mez, cui affinis, inflorescentia aliquid elongata, 

 sepalis parvis bracteas florales superantibus differt. 



Propagating by rhizomes ; flowering plant low, probably little more 

 than 5 dm. high at most; leaves 5-10 dm. long, sheaths suborbicular, 

 7 cm. wide, glabrous above and the lower half beneath, the upper half 

 beneath covered with coarse brown subspreading scales, blades linear, 

 acuminate, not at all constricted at base, 2 cm. wide, glabrous above, 

 covered with white appressed scales beneath, laxly serrate with un- 

 cinate teeth 4-7 mm. long, the basal teeth recurved, the others ascend- 

 ing ; scape erect, elongate ; scape-bracts subfoliaceous, densely imbri- 

 cate ; inflorescence ellipsoid or short-cylindric, much longer than wide, 

 4 cm. in diameter; primary bracts broadly elliptic, covering all but 

 the apices of the flowers, the lowest with small foliaceous blades; 

 branches short, few-flowered ; floral bracts oblong, obtuse, cucuUate, 

 carinate, serrulate, white-lepidote ; flowers sub fasciculate, subsessile, 

 32-39 mm. long; sepals oblong, obtuse and cucullate, 12-15 mm. or 

 rarely to 20 mm. long, carinate, conduplicate, densely white-lepidote ; 

 petals erect, lilac ; filaments connate for 5 mm. ; ovary slenderly 

 ellipsoid, densely white-lepidote. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2046592, collected in campo at 

 Quintas, Munici'pio Goias, State of Goias, Brazil, July 6, 1951, by A. Macedo 

 (No. 3260). 



Additional specimens examined: 

 Mato Grosso: Between Coxipo da Ponte and Cuiaba, March 191 1, Hoehne 

 in Rondon 4518 (R) ; October 1914, /. G. Kuhlmann 86 (R). Campo Grande, 

 Sept. ID, 1936, Archer & Gchrt 168 (SP, US). Aquiduana, Noreste R. R., 

 Sept. 24, 1940, Foster 1075 (GH). Braco, Rio Arinos, Sept. 26, 1943, Baldzvin 

 3103 (GH, US). 



Sao Paulo: Itapura, Sept. 29, 1940 (bloomed in cultivation April 1944), 

 Foster 11 01 (GH). 



Cryptanthus duartei L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 67 



A C. maritimo L. B. Smith, cui affinis, bracteis florigeris linearibus 

 sepala subaequantibus, petalis aureis differt. 



Stemless ; leaves 35 cm. long, the sheaths broadly elliptic, 2 cm. 

 long, serrulate, glabrous, the blades linear-triangular, filiform-acumi- 

 nate, not at all constricted at the base, 12 mm. wide, glabrous above, 

 covered beneath with pale appressed scales, laxly serrulate with pale 

 ascending teeth 0.5 mm. long ; floral bracts linear, about equaling the 

 sepals, membranaceous, subcucullate, densely lepidote toward the 

 apex ; sepals 13 mm. long, unequally connate 4-5 mm., oblong, broadly 

 cuspidate-acute, subcucullate, membranaceous, lepidote; petals 4 cm. 



