NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 3I 



Neoregelia pauciflora L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 65 



A N. sonata L. B, Smith, cui affinis, foliorum vaginis intus atro- 

 purpureis, laminis brevibus supra regulariter transverseque albido 

 lineatis, bracteis florigeris brevissimis differt. 



Stolons elongate, slender, horizontal; leaves about 12, 15 cm. long, 

 minutely and sparsely lepidote on both sides, sheaths elliptic, as long 

 as or longer than the blades, dark purple above, blades broadly 

 ligulate, rounded and apiculate, 35 mm. wide, laxly serrulate with 

 dark teeth i mm. long, marked above with fine regular white cross- 

 lines; scape very short; inflorescence fusiform, few-flowered, less 

 than 2 cm. in diameter ; floral bracts shorter than the pedicels, ovate, 

 acute, membranaceous ; pedicels slender, 25 mm. long ; sepals slightly 

 asymmetric, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 20 mm. long, connate for 

 I mm. ; petals 35 mm. long, white ( ! Foster) ; ovary slenderly ellip- 

 soid, 7 mm. long. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected at Santa Teresa, State of Espirito 

 Santo, Brazil, altitude 765 meters, July 26, 1939, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 265). 



Neoregelia princeps (Baker) L. B. Smith, var, phyllanthidea (Mez) L. B. 

 Smith, comb. nov. 



Aregelia princeps var. phyllanthidea Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. 9: 76. 1896. 



Neoregelia uleana L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 59 



A N. leucophoea (Baker) L. B. Smith, cui afflnis, foliorum laminis 

 angustioribus acutis et subulato-mucronatis differt. 



Leaves 32 cm. long, bearing dark brown appressed scales, the 

 sheaths broadly elliptic, 10 cm. long, densely lepidote, dark castaneous 

 except for the pale apex, the blades ligulate, acute with a subulate 

 5 mm. long mucro, 3 cm. wide, apparently concolorous, densely 

 lepidote beneath, becoming glabrous above, laxly serrate with black 

 ascending teeth 2 mm. long; scape 8 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter; 

 scape-bracts very broadly ovate with a short triangular apex, thin, 

 densely lepidote, the lowest serrate; inflorescence simple, many- 

 flowered, 6 cm. in diameter; outer bracts like the scape-bracts, the 

 highest nearly equaling the sepals; floral bracts linear, slightly ex- 

 ceeded by the sepals, cucuUate, mucronulate, thin, densely brown- 

 lepidote toward the apex ; pedicels slender, 25 mm. long ; sepals lanceo- 

 late, acute, somewhat asymmetric, 34 mm. long, connate for 5 mm., 

 brown-lepidote inside, glabrous outside ; only very immature petals 

 and stamens seen ; ovary ellipsoid, 18 mm. long. 



Type in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, No. 46406, collected from culti- 

 vated material in the gardens of the Museu, May 1896, by E. Ule. 



