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long, obtuse, bright orange; stamens and style included; ovary ob- 

 conic, 5 mm. long. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2121558, collected on micaceous 

 quartzite soil of rocky campo, Serra do Cipo, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 

 November 1949, by A. P. Duarte. Duplicate in the herbarium of the Jardim 

 Botanico, Rio de Janeiro (No. 76607). 



Cryptanthus marginatus L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 70 



A C. lacerdae Antoine, cui afifinis, foliis rubescente marginatis, 

 sepalorum partibus liberis latioribus atrisque differt. 



Plants closely aggregated; leaves about 12 in each flat rosette, to 

 20 cm. long, covered beneath with pale coarse appressed scales, 

 sheaths small and inconspicuous, blades linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 3 cm, wide, becoming glabrous above except near the base, very light 

 green with a narrow reddish margin, the broad flat median band 

 somewhat darker than the equally broad undulate marginal bands, 

 densely serrulate with teeth 0.5 mm. long; fascicles few-flowered, 

 axillary, the distal perfect, the central staminate ( ! Foster) ; floral 

 bracts lance-oblong, acute, exceeded by the sepals, thin, lepidote ; 

 sepals II mm. long, connate for 6 mm., the free lobes subquadrate 

 with broad wings and thick triangular lepidote apiculus, dark ; petals 

 obtuse, 25 mm. long, white. 



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

 Santo, Brazil, July 25, 1939 (bloomed May 14, 1941), by M. B. and R. Foster 

 (No. 243). 



Cryptanthus minarum L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 69 



Foliis homomorphis, laminis ad basin versus attenuatis, subtus 

 brunneo-lepidotis, supra glabris et verisimiliter linea ampla pallida 

 mediana notatis ; laminis sepalorum late ellipticis apiculatis serrula- 

 tisque. 



Complete caudex unknown, stout ; leaves all alike, to 39 cm. long, 

 the sheaths oblong, barely differentiated, the blades ligulate, acuminate, 

 tapered gradually toward the base, 35 mm. wide, covered beneath 

 with brown appressed scales, glabrous above and apparently marked 

 with a broad pale median stripe (not absolutely certain in the dried 

 material), subdensely serrulate with pale upcurved teeth i mm. long; 

 inflorescence 3 cm. in diameter ; floral bracts oblanceolate, acuminate, 

 about equaling the midpoint of the sepals, serrulate and lepidote 

 toward the apex; sepals 15 mm. long, connate for 8 mm., alate- 

 carinate with the wings decurrent on the ovary, the free lobes broadly 



