NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 33 



8 mm., the free lobes broadly ovate, mucronulate, entire or erose ; 

 petals and stamens unknown. 



Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected on trees near Maromba Falls, Mount 

 Itatiaia, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 30, 1939, by M. B. & R. Foster 

 (No. 118). 



Orthophytum amoenum (Ule) L. B. Smith, comb. nov. 



Sincoraea amoena Ule, Bot. Jahrb. 42: 191, fig. i A-F. 1908. 



Orthophytum disjunctum L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 85 



A O. folioso L. B. Smith, cui affinis, foliis utrinque lepidibus pa- 

 tentibus obtectis, inflorescentia fere omnino laxa, bracteis primariis 

 spicas subduplo superantibus dense serratis differt. 



Stoloniferous, aggregated, 35-50 cm. high; leaves 15-17 cm. long, 

 covered with pale-cinereous spreading scales, sheaths small and incon- 

 spicuous, blades narrowly triangular, acuminate, 17-20 mm. wide, 

 flat, densely serrate with spreading teeth 3 mm. long; scape erect, 

 slender, densely cinereous-fiocculose ; scape-bracts f oliaceous but 

 spreading and almost completely exposing it; inflorescence elongate, 

 lax except for the extreme apex, densely cinereous-flocculose ; pri- 

 mary bracts foliaceous but only about twice as long as the axillary 

 spikes, curving-reflexed ; spikes subglobose, 1 5-20 mm. long, few- 

 flowered ; floral bracts broadly ovate with an acuminate recurved 

 apex, 13 mm. long, pectinate-serrate; sepals narrowly triangular, 

 II mm. long; petals 12 mm. long, white, the scales borne well above 

 the base. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1952419, collected on rocks at 

 Queimada, between Campina Grande and Caruaru, State of Paraiba, Brazil, 

 altitude 450 meters, Oct. 11, 1948, by M. B. Foster (No. 2419). 



Additional specimen examined: 



Pernambuco: Mun. Quipapa: Engenheiro Felada, Silva & Leal 247 (RB). 



Orthophytum maracasense L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 84 



A 0. folioso L. B. Smith, cui affinis, foliis utrinque lepidibus ad- 

 pressis obtectis, bracteis primariis superioribus spicas subduplo super- 

 antibus differt. 



Caudex short and thick but evident ; flowering plant 3 dm. high ; 

 leaves 3 dm. long, covered with white appressed scales but becoming 

 more or less glabrous above with age, sheaths small and inconspicuous, 

 blades narrowly triangular, acuminate, 3 cm. wide, laxly serrate with 

 spreading teeth 3 mm. long; scape erect, white-flocculose ; scape- 



