NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL SMITH 2$ 



elliptic, apiculate, serrulate, lepidote near the apex ; petals 4 cm. long ; 

 stamens and pistil included ; ovary subcylindric, 1 1 mm. long. 



Type in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (No. 46186), collected at 

 Itabira do Campo, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, June 1902, by A. Melo Matos. 



Cryptanthus pickelii L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 72 



A C. incrassato L. B. Smith et C. diversijolio Beer, quibus affinis, 

 foliorum laminis supra linea lata pallida mediana pictis differt. 



Short-caulescent ; leaves densely brown-lepidote, becoming glabrous 

 above, sheaths elliptic, subdensely serrulate, blades caudate-acuminate, 

 laxly and minutely serrulate, marked above with a broad pale median 

 stripe, dimorphic, those of the outer leaves linear-lanceolate, distinctly 

 contracted toward the base, to 35 cm. long, 25 mm. wide, blades of 

 the inner leaves narrowly triangular, not at all contracted toward the 

 base, not over 15 cm. long, 13 mm. wide; inflorescence compound 

 with the flowers fasciculate in the axils of foliaceous bracts; floral 

 bracts elliptic, exceeding the ovary, membranaceous except for the 

 thick pungent apex, serrulate, brown-lepidote; sepals 16 mm. long, 

 carinate, lepidote, connate for 9 mm., the free lobes ovate, acute, en- 

 tire; petals imperfectly known, about 2 cm. longer than the sepals, 

 exceeding the stamens, white. 



Type in the herbarium of the Instituto de Pesquisas Agronomicas, collected 

 in forest, Toro, Escola de Sao Bento, near Tapera, Municipio Sao Lourengo da 

 Mata, Pernambuco, Brazil, Mar. 12, 1925, by Bento Jose Pickel (No. 909 in 

 part). Also the cotype, collected in the Mata do Corrego da Bexiga, Escola de 

 Sao Bento, May 1927, by B. J. Pickel (No. 909 remainder). 



Cryptanthus pseudoscaposus L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 68 



A C. acauli (Lindl.) Beer, cui afifinis, stolonibus elongatis nudis, 

 foliis subtus brunneo-lepidotis, floribus subduplo minoribus, bracteis 

 sepalisque lepidotis differt. 



Stolons arising from the inflorescence, elongate, naked, at first 

 erect and scape-like; leaves about 15 in each rosette, all alike, to 

 18 cm. long, completely covered beneath with brown appressed scales, 

 soon glabrous above, sheaths small and inconspicuous, blades linear- 

 lanceolate, filiform-acuminate, 22 mm. wide, subdensely serrulate, 

 the center channeled, the sides undulate ; fascicles few-flowered, 

 axillary ; floral bracts broadly ovate, slightly exceeded by the sepals, 

 membranaceous, lepidote; sepals 10 mm. long, connate for 4 mm., 

 the free lobes subsymmetrical, lance-ovate, with a thickened pungent 

 apex, densely pale-lepidote ; petals obtuse, 14 mm. long, white. 



