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There is no record of the origin of Neoregelia uleana nor of N. 

 leucophoea which appears to be its nearest relative. 



Nidularium apiculatum L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 77 



A N. terminale Ule, cui affinis, fohis multo minoribus angustiori- 

 busque, scapo humile differt. 



Propagating by short basal offshoots; leaves about 15 in a flat 

 rosette, to 33 cm, long, sheaths elliptic, 10 cm. long, sparsely pale- 

 lepidote, blades ligulate, broadly acute and apiculate, 27 mm. wide, 

 glabrous at maturity, laxly serrulate with teeth 0.5 mm. long, bearing 

 a broad pale median channel toward the base ; scape 10 cm. high, 

 distinctly separating the inflorescence from the rosette; scape-bracts 

 f oliaceous but much reduced, densely imbricate ; outer bracts of the 

 inflorescence sub f oliaceous with elongate spreading blades, red-striate ; 

 floral bracts oblong, acute, much exceeded by the sepals, serrulate, 

 membranaceous, lepidote ; sepals 18 mm. long, connate for 7 mm., 

 the free lobes elliptic, broadly rounded and apiculate at least in drying, 

 entire ; petals and stamens unknown. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected under trees, Mount Itatiaia, State of 

 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 30, 1939, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 124). 



Nidularium apiculatum L. B. Smith var. serrulatum L. B. Smith, var. nov. 



Differt sepalis dense serrulatis. 



Differing from the typical variety by its densely serrulate sepals. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected on rocks in shade, Mount Itatiaia, 

 State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 30, 1939, by M. B. & R. Foster (No. 121). 



Nidularium innocentii Lerii. var. lineatum (Mez) L. B. Smith, comb. nov. 

 Nidularium lineatum Mez, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 12 : 412. 1913. 



Nidularium itatiaiae L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 76 



A N. longifioro Ule et N. paucifloro Ule, cuibus affinis, sepalis 

 minoribus altiore connatis late rotundatis mucronulatisque differt. 



Leaves rosulate, to 31 cm. long, coarsely appressed-lepidote be- 

 neath, sheaths broadly elliptic, 12 cm. long, blades ligulate, broadly 

 acute and apiculate, 35 mm. wide, laxly serrulate with teeth less than 

 I mm. long, glabrous above at maturity; scape 9 cm. long; scape- 

 bracts subfoliaceous, densely imbricate ; outer bracts of the inflores- 

 cence broadly ovate with minute blades, red, serrulate, lepidote ; floral 

 bracts elliptic, acute, 25 mm. long, membranaceous, serrulate, densely 

 and coarsely appressed-lepidote; sepals 17 mm. long, connate for 



