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bracts foliaceous, large, spreading and exposing most of the scape; 

 inflorescence densely cylindric except at base, 13 cm. long, densely 

 white-lepidote ; primary bracts foliaceous, spreading, the lowest elon- 

 gate, the others not more than twice as long as the axillary spikes ; 

 spikes subglobose, 3 cm. long; floral bracts broadly ovate with an 

 acuminate spreading or recurving apex, 2 cm. long, pectinate-serrate ; 

 sepals narrowly triangular, acuminate, 15 mm. long; petals slightly 

 exceeding the sepals, white, appendaged well above the base. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1952463, collected in Table Rock 

 area near Maracas, State of Baia, Brazil, altitude 900 meters, Oct. 21, 1948, by 

 M. B. Foster (No. 2471). 



Orthophytum navioides (L. B. Smith) L. B. Smith, comb. nov. 



Cryptanthopsis navioides L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 129:31, pi. 3, 

 figs. 4-6. 1940. 



Orthophytum rubrum L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 83 



Ab omnibus speciebus adhuc cognitis inflorescentia digitata, spicis 

 elongatis rubris differt. 



Leaves numerous, 55 cm. long, covered at first with white ap- 

 pressed scales, the sheaths suborbicular, 2-3 cm. long, pale brown, 

 becoming glabrous and lustrous, the blades linear-triangular, caudate- 

 acuminate, 2 cm. wide, laxly serrate with pale ascending spines 2 mm. 

 long, becoming glabrous above; scape elongate; scape-bracts folia- 

 ceous, spreading; inflorescence digitate from a few spikes; primary 

 bracts foliaceous, about twice as long as the spikes, spreading ; spikes 

 ellipsoid, densely many-flowered, 4 cm. long, 25 mm. in diameter, 

 red; floral bracts divergent, broadly ovate, acuminate, 2 cm. long, 

 serrate, nerved, soon glabrous; sepals triangular, mucronulate, 12 mm. 

 long, the posterior ones very broadly alate-carinate ; petals 15 mm. 

 long, white, appendaged well above the base ; stamens included ; ovary 

 subglobose. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 205791 1, collected on Table Rock, 

 near Maracas, State of Baia, Brazil, in 1948, by M. B. Foster (No. 2444), and 

 flowered in cultivation in 1952. 



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



Cryptanthopsis saxicola Ule, Bot. Jahrb. 42: 193, fig. i G-K. 1908. 



Quesnelia edmundoi L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 113 



A Q. laterale Wawra atque Q. blanda (Schott) Mez, quibus affinis, 

 foliis grosse subdenseque serratis, inflorescentia cylindrica magna, 

 bracteis florigeris cucullatis subcoriaceis differt. 



