NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 2^ 



dense except near the base, 20 cm. long, 4 cm. in diameter, glabrous 

 at least with age ; floral bracts narrowly triangular, exceeding the 

 pedicels ; flowers spreading ; pedicels 6 mm. long, stout, sulcate ; sepals 

 broadly ovate, 5 mm. long; petals and stamens very imperfectly 

 known but apparently free ; capsule ovoid, stout, 9 mm. long, dark 

 castaneous ; seeds surrounded by a falcate wing. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2104402, collected from cultivated 

 material in the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, originating from the region 

 of Diamantina, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Feb. 8, 1952, by L. B. Smith 

 & A. C. Brade (No. 5652). 



Neoregelia bahiana (Ule) L. B. Smith var. viridis L. B. Smith, var. nov. 



Differt foliis omnino viridibus. 



Leaves wholly green in contrast to the typical variety which has the 

 inner leaves red on the upper side. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected on the Serra de Piedade, near Belo 

 Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, altitude 1,300 meters, July 10, 1940 

 (bloomed in cultivation, June i, 1943), by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 573). 



Neoregelia coriacea (Antoine) L. B. Smith, comb. nov. 



Karatas coriacea Antoine, Phyto-Iconogr. 51, pi. 30, fig. i. 1884. 



Neoregelia fluminensis L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 58 



A A'^. macahensis (Ule) L. B. Smith, cui affinis, foliis omnibus 

 similibus angustioribus utrinque lepidibus magnis pallidis adpressis 

 densissime obtectis, pedicellis brevioribus sepalis apiculatis, subsym- 

 metricis differt. 



Stoloniferous ; leaves all alike, to 36 cm. long, completely covered 

 with coarse pale appressed scales, sheaths broadly elliptic, 1 1 cm. long, 

 their scales brownish, blades ligulate, rounded and apiculate, 27 mm. 

 wide, laxly serrulate with teeth 0.5 mm. long, green; scape 6 cm. 

 long; inflorescence simple, about 12-flowered; outer bracts ovate, 

 3 cm. long, membranaceous, densely lepidote; floral bracts oblong, 

 obtuse and apiculate, membranaceous, lepidote ; pedicels slender, 

 14 mm. long; sepals 15 mm. long, connate for 3 mm., the lobes 

 slightly asymmetric, broadly elliptic and apiculate; fruit globose, 

 6 mm. in diameter. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected at Teresopolis, State of Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 21, 1940, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 982). 



