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Vriesia splendens (Brongn.) Lem. var. longibracteata (Baker) L. B. 

 Smith, comb. nov. 



Tillandsia longibracteata Baker, Journ. Bot. 26 : 8r. 1888. 

 Vriesia longibracteata Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. 9: 568. 1896. 



Type Locality: Venezuela; Mountains of Tovar. Type collected by Fendler 

 (No. 2449). 

 Distribution : Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, British Guiana. 



Vriesia splendens var. longibracteata can be said to differ from 

 the typical variety only in its concolorous leaf-blades, yet its different 

 range makes a designation for it desirable. 



Wittrockia azurea L. B. Smith, n. sp. Figure 90 



Ab omnibus speciebus adhuc cognitis sepalis minimis, petalis 

 azureis differt. 



Flowering shoot 2 dm. high ; leaves rosulate, 4 dm. long, green with 

 a pale median band, obscurely pale-lepidote, the sheaths elliptic, 8 cm. 

 long, entire except near the apex, the blades linear, acuminate, con- 

 tracted toward the base, 13 mm. wide, laxly serrulate; scape erect, 

 slender, much exceeding the leaf-sheaths, covered and much exceeded 

 by the f oliaceous bracts ; inflorescence compact, few-flowered, less than 

 3 cm. in diameter; primary bracts subf oliaceous, elongate, forming a 

 stellate involucre about the inflorescence ; floral bracts oblong, obtuse, 

 about equaling the center of the sepals, densely serrulate, membrana- 

 ceous, lepidote ; sepals oblong, obtuse, 12 mm. long, connate for 3 mm., 

 thin, glabrous, nerved; petals 15 mm. long, bearing 2 fimbriate scales 

 at base, the free lobes elliptic, obtuse, cucullate, blue ; stamens in- 

 cluded; ovary obconic, 6 mm. long, epigynous tube 1.5 mm. long, 

 placentae central, ovules apiculate. 



Type in the herbarium of the Institute de Botanica, Sao Paulo, No. 51968, 

 collected in virgin rain forest, Fazenda da Companhia, Coronel Pacheco, State 

 of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Aug. 30, 1944, by Ezechias P. Heringer (No. 1536). 



Wittrockia campos-portoi L. B. Smith, sp. nov. Figure 89 



A W. smithii Reitz, cui afiinis, foliis viridibus, scapo elongato, in- 

 florescentiae bracteis primariis angustis, petalis callosis apice flavis 

 differt. 



Leaves rosulate ; scape elongate ; raising the compact involucrate 

 inflorescence well above the leaf -sheaths ; primary bracts 14 cm. long, 

 obscurely pale-lepidote, the sheaths ovate, ample, concealing all but 

 the apices of the few flowers in each axil, the blades linear, acuminate, 

 15 mm. wide, reddish, laxly and minutely serrulate; floral bracts 



