NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 29 



Neoregelia leprosa L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 57 



A N. macahensis (Ule) L. B. Smith, cui affinis foHis angustioribus 

 lepidibus magnis pallidis adpressis densissime obtectis, pedicellis 

 brevioribus differt. 



Leaves all alike, to 22 cm. long, covered on both sides with coarse 

 cinereous appressed scales, sheaths broadly elliptic, 6-8 cm. long, 

 their scales with brownish centers, blades ligulate, rounded and apicu- 

 late, becoming broadly retuse by the reflexing of the apex, 28 mm. 

 wide, subdensely serrulate with teeth less than i mm. long, green, 

 darker beneath ; scape unknown ; inflorescence simple, about 20- 

 flowered ; outer bracts broadly ovate, 3 cm. long, thin, lepidote ; floral 

 bracts exceeded by the sepals, membranaceous, lepidote; pedicels 

 slender, to 13 mm. long ; sepals strongly asymmetric with the acumi- 

 nate apex extending 3 mm. above the wings, subfree, 14 mm. long, the 

 median part red-purple and lepidote toward the apex, the wings white ; 

 petals 18 mm. long, white, their blades broadly ovate, acute; ovary 

 ellipsoid, 7 mm. long. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected on the Serra do Cipo, State of Minas 

 Gerais, Brazil, July 13, 1940, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 656). Duplicate 

 in U. S. National Herbarium. 



Neoregelia macrosepala L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 61 



A A^. farinosa (Ule) L. B. Smith, cui verisimiliter affinis, vaginis 

 foliorium angustioribus, purpureo suffultis, sepalis majoribus paulo 

 asymmetricis lepidotis differt. 



Propagating by short, ascending stolons ; leaves about 1 5 in a 

 spreading rosette, 50-85 cm. long, coarsely pale-lepidote on both sides, 

 sheaths elliptic, 12-20 cm. long, tinged with purple, blades ligulate, 

 rounded and apiculate, 40-45 mm. wide, laxly serrulate with basal 

 teeth 2 mm, long; scape short; scape-bracts densely imbricate; in- 

 florescence many-flowered, 6 cm. in diameter ; outer bracts ovate, 

 acute, thin, densely lepidote; floral bracts lanceolate, to 7 cm. long, 

 nearly or quite equaling the sepals, straight; pedicels slender, to 30 

 mm. long; sepals slightly asymmetric with inconspicuous wings, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 38 mm. long, connate for 2 mm., sparsely 

 lepidote becoming glabrous ; ovary ellipsoid, 12 mm. long. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected at Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, State of 

 Espirito Santo, Brazil, Aug. 17, 1940, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 968). Dupli- 

 cate in U. S. National Herbarium. 



Additional specimen examined: 

 Espirito Santo: Vargem Alta, Aug. 15, 1940, M. B. & R. Foster 929 

 (GH). 



