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Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected between Domingos Martins and 

 Vitoria, State of Espirito Santo, Brazil, altitude 75 meters, July 14, 1939, by 

 M, B. & R. Foster (No. 208). Duplicate in the Museu Nacional, Rio de 

 Janeiro, and in U. S. National Herbarium. 



Cryptanthus sinuosus L. B. Smith, nom. nov. 



Cryptanthus undulatits Otto & Dietr. AUg. Gartenz. 4:299. 1836. In 

 part. Nomen illegitimum, because of the citation of Tillandsia acaulis in 

 its synonymy. 



Dyckia heloisae L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 16 



A D. hilaireana Mez, cui affinis, foliis integerrimis, pedicellis elon- 

 gatis differt. 



Subacaulescent, 4-5 dm. high; leaves 10-12 cm. long, entire, the 

 sheaths large, suborbicular, almost black, the blades narrowly triangu- 

 lar, 2 cm. wide at base, thick, rigid, pungent, glabrous above, covered 

 beneath with cinereous appressed scales ; scape stout, to 6 mm. in 

 diameter, glabrous at least in age; scape-bracts subfoliaceous, the 

 upper ones much shorter than the internodes ; inflorescence laxly 

 racemose, many-flowered, glabrous at least in age ; floral bracts nar- 

 rowly triangular, the lower ones exceeding the pedicels; pedicels 

 slenderly clavate, spreading, frequently curved upward toward the 

 apex, to 14 mm. long ; sepals broadly ovate, apparently broadly acute, 

 9 mm. long ; stamens free above the very short tube with the petals ; 

 capsule ovoid, short-beaked, about equaling the sepals. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2120193, collected on rocky crest, 

 Serra do Cipo, 5 kilometers north of Chapeu de Sol. Municipio Jaboticatubas, 

 State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, altitude 1,100 meters, Apr. 29, 1952, by L. B. 

 Smith (No. 6698), F. Segadas-Vianna, W. A. Egler, L. Dau, Z. Lopes da Silva, 

 W. T. Ormond & G. C. Machline. 



Encholirium bradeanum L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 2 



Inter generis species valde singularis, a speciebus omnibus laminis 

 foliorum angustissimis quam longitudine spinarum angustioribus 

 differt. 



Flowering plant over 7 dm. high ; leaves rosulate, 24 cm. long, ap- 

 pressed-pale-lepidote on both sides, the sheaths small and inconspicu- 

 ous, the blades linear, 4 mm, wide at base, laxly serrate with slender 

 curved mostly subopposite spines 5 mm. long; scape 8 mm. in di- 

 ameter, glabrous at least with age ; scape-bracts suberect, foliaceous 

 and much exceeding the internodes but the highest small, entire, and 

 shorter than the internodes ; inflorescence simple, many-flowered. 



