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8. Upper and lower sides of the leaf-blades alike, green, nearly glabrous ; 

 flowers to 41 mm. long; sepals acuminate, more than half connate. 



9. C. brotnelioides 

 7. Leaf-blades marked with spots or lines on the upper side. 



II. Leaf-markings consisting of irregular dark transverse bands. 

 12. Sepals 19 mm. long, three-fourths connate, the free lobes acuminate, 

 auriculate, entire; leaves relatively thin and flexible. 



ID. C. zonatus 



12. Sepals 8 mm. long, connate for 5 mm., the free lobes broadly acute 



and apiculate, broadest at the base, serrulate; leaves thick and 



fleshy II. C. fosterianus 



II. Leaf-markings consisting of regular pale longitudinal bands. 



13. Leaves glabrous above, their bands due to pigmentation. 

 14. Colored band single and median; sepals alate. 



15. Leaves white-lepidote beneath; flowers less than 30 mm. long; 

 sepals 1 1 mm. long 12. C. praetextus 



15. Leaves brown-lepidote beneath; flowers to 51 mm. long; sepals 



IS mm. long, connate for 8 mm. (Fig. 69.) 



13. C. minarum 

 14. Colored bands two or more; sepals more than half connate. 



16. The colored bands numerous and various; flowers to 41 mm. 



long 9. C. bromelioides 



16. The colored bands two and of the same color ; flowers 26 mm. 



long 14. C. bivittatus 



13. Leaves partially lepidote above, contrasting with glabrous bands, 

 the blades 30 mm. wide; sepals 11 mm. long. 

 17. Sepals concolorous, the free lobes narrow; leaves scarcely more 



than 8 cm. long 15. C. lacerdae 



17. Sepals with the free lobes broad and much darker than the tube; 



leaves 20 cm. long. (Fig. 70.) 16. C. marginatus 



6. The leaves dimorphic. 



18. Leaf-blades petiolate and maculate. (Fig. 71.) 17. C. beuckeri 



18. Leaf-blades gradually narrowed at the base but not petiolate, not 

 maculate. 

 19. The leaf-blades with a pale median stripe above, 25 mm. wide ; sepals 



acute. (Fig. 72.) 18. C. pickelii 



19. The leaf-blades concolorous above. 

 20. Faces of the leaf of different colors; floral bracts shorter than the 

 ovary; sepals rounded and apiculate; leaf -blades 15-20 mm. wide. 



19. C. incrassatus 



20. Faces of the leaf the same color; floral bracts to 17 mm. long, 



exceeding the ovary ; sepals acuminate ; leaf-blades 45 mm. wide. 



20. C. diversifolius 



1. Cryptantbus glaziovii Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3 : 202. 1891. 

 MiNAS Gerais: Caraga, Glasiou 15672a (B, type; P (GH neg. 2946)) ; Foster 



706 (GH). 



2. Cryptantbus babianus L. B. Smith, Arquiv. Bot. Estado Sao Paulo nov. 



sen 1 : 106, pi. 104. 1943. 

 Cryptanthus glaziovii sensu L. B. Smith in Addisonia 20: 9, pi. 645. 1937. 

 Not Mez 1 891. 



