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Neoregelia hoehneana L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 56 



A N. ampullacea (E. Morr.) L. B. Smith, cui affinis, stolonibus 

 arcuato-dependentibus, bracteis florigeris sepala subaequantibus, 

 sepalis obtusis valde asymmetricis, petalis obtusis omnino albis differt. 



Stemless, propagating by long slender arching-pendent stolons ; 

 leaves about lo in each rosette, even the inner ones only 15 cm. long, 

 bearing minute dark appressed scales, the sheaths ample, 6 cm. long, 

 forming a subcylindric or ellipsoid tank, densely lepidote, the blades 

 linear, flat, broadly rounded and apiculate, 25 mm. wide, green, very 

 sparsely lepidote, very sparsely serrulate with teeth less than 0.5 mm. 

 long; inflorescence few-flowered, hidden in the center of the leaf- 

 rosette ; floral bracts oblong, obtuse, about equaling the sepals, thin, 

 greenish white, subglabrous ; pedicels slender, 5 mm. long; sepals 

 short-connate, 12 mm. long, broadly obtuse, strongly asymmetric, 

 green centrally ; petals 22 mm. long, white, the blades elliptic, obtuse ; 

 stamens included ; ovary ellipsoid, 7 mm. long. 



Type in the Institute de Botanica, Sao Paulo, No. 44469, collected in Cara- 

 guatatuba. State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 13, 1940, by A. Gehrt. 



Neoregelia johannis (Carr.) L. B. Smith, comb. nov. 

 Nidularium johannis Carr. Rev. Hortic. 56 : 432. 1884. 



Neoregelia kuhlmannii L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 60 



A N. coriacea (Antoine) L. B, Smith, cui affinis, foliis viridibus, 

 pedicellis brevissimis differt. 



Plant propagating by long rhizomes 7 mm. in diameter ; leaves sub- 

 erect, 25 cm. long, the sheaths broadly elliptic, 1 1 cm. long, pale green, 

 densely and finely brown-lepidote, the blades ligulate, broadly 

 rounded or even somewhat retuse and apiculate, 5 cm. wide, sub- 

 entire, green, concolorous, glabrous above, inconspicuously pale- 

 lepidote beneath ; scape 3 cm. long, 4 mm. in diameter ; scape-bracts 

 suborbicular, 1 5 mm. long, thin, densely lepidote ; inflorescence simple, 

 few-flowered, less than 3 cm. in diameter ; outer bracts broadly ovate, 

 acute, nearly equaling the sepals, thin, lepidote toward the apex; 

 floral bracts lance-linear, flat, rounded and apiculate, slightly exceeded 

 by the sepals, thin, sparsely lepidote ; pedicels 5 mm. long ; sepals 

 lance-linear, acute, slightly asymmetric, 30 mm. long, connate for 

 8 mm., glabrous ; only immature petals and stamens known ; ovary 

 subcylindric, 2 cm. long. 



Type in the Institute de Botanica, Sao Paulo, No. 5S35S, collected at Fazenda 

 Japuhyba, Angra dos Reis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Moyses Kuhlmann 

 (No. 2652). 



