NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 35 



Known only from fragments, the flowering shoot over 4 dm. high ; 

 leaves 4-5 dm. long, bearing appressed brown scales throughout, the 

 sheaths elliptic, ample, the blades ligulate, rounded and apiculate, 4 cm, 

 wide, subdensely serrate with straight or slightly curved spines 4 mm. 

 long ; scape straight, 6 mm. in diameter, brown-lepidote ; inflorescence 

 strobilate, cylindric, 15 cm. long, 3 cm. in diameter; floral bracts in 

 about 8 ranks, erect, broadly ovate, acute, cucuUate, 25 mm. long, 

 slightly exceeding the sepals, subcoriaceous except for the thin narrow 

 margins, glabrous, nerved toward the apex; sepals oblong, slightly 

 asymmetric, broadly obtuse, 14 mm. long; petals and stamens un- 

 known ; ovary globose, epigynous tube infundibuliform, 2 mm. long, 

 ovules borne at the top of the cell. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2121556, collected at Barreiras, 

 Baixada Fluminensis, at the base of the Serra de Teresopolis, State of Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 8, 1948, by Edmundo Pereira and A. P. Duarte (No. 

 1522). Duplicate in the herbarium of the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro 

 (No. 65289). 



Vriesia segadas-viannae L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 40 



A V. penduli flora L. B. Smith, cui affinis, ramis inflorescentiae 

 prophyllatis, bracteis florigeris quam sepalis subduplo brevioribus 

 differt. 



Stemless, 8 dm. high ; leaves 4 dm. long, finely and densely brown- 

 lepidote throughout, the sheaths elliptic, 16 cm. long, very dark 

 castaneous except near the apex, the blades ligulate, acute, 45 mm. 

 wide ; scape erect, slender, glabrous ; scape-bracts ovate, acute, slightly 

 exceeding the internodes ; inflorescence bipinnate, 3 dm. long, glabrous 

 at least with age ; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, about equaling 

 the sterile bases of the branches; branches erect or suberect, very 

 slender, the lateral ones 9 cm. long including the abortive apical 

 flower, 3-4-flowered, the terminal 7-flowered, the sterile base short 

 and bearing one or two prophyllae ; floral bracts becoming down- 

 wardly secund with the flowers, broadly ovate, acute, carinate, thin, 

 about half as long as the sepals ; pedicels obconic, 8 mm. long ; sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, 20 mm. long; petals and stamens unknown; capsule 

 cylindric, acute, 3 cm. long, coma pale brown. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 2120196, collected at Palacio, 

 Serra do Cipo, Municipio Jaboticatubas, State of Minas (jerais, Brazil, altitude 

 1,200 meters, Apr. 28, 1952, by L. B. Smith (No. 6755), F. Segadas-Vianna, 

 L. Dau & W. T. Ormond. 



