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12. Inflorescence ellipsoid or short-cylindric, distinctly longer 

 than broad ; flowers 32-39 mm. long ; scape elongate. 



(Fig. 80.) II. B. interior 



9. Floral bracts elliptic-dilated at the apex. 



13. Sepals elliptic, 12 mm. long 12. B. exigua 



13. Sepals narrowly oblong, to 22 mm. long, serrulate. 



13. B. rondoniana 

 I. Scape completely lacking; inflorescence corymbose, sunk in the center of 

 the leaf-rosette. (Fig. 81.) 

 14. Leaf-blades not at all petiolate. 

 15. Filament-tube only 3 mm. long ; sepals serrulate at the apex, 25-30 mm. 



long; indument of the inflorescence whitish 14. B. legrellae 



15. Filament- tube 12-20 mm. long or more. 

 16. Scales of the inflorescence pale, slender and almost filiform; sepals 

 obtuse, 17 mm. long; filament-tube only 12 mm. long. (Fig. 81.) 



15. B. villosa 

 16. Scales of the inflorescence dark brown, broad ; sepals acute or 

 subacute, 



17. Ovary 2 cm. long; sepals 25-27 mm. long 16. B. lagopus 



17. Ovary to 8 cm. long; sepals 30-40 mm. long 17. B. karatas 



14. Leaf-blades (or at least the outer ones) distinctly petiolate; sepals wholly 

 or in greater part exserted above the floral bracts. 

 18. Petals dark-lepidote, connate for three-fourths of their length; sepals 

 oblong, obtuse, cucullate, 21 mm. long, 7 mm. wide. 



18. B. morreniana 



18. Petals glabrous, short-connate; sepals linear, apiculate, 15 mm. long, 



3 mm. wide 19. B. scarlatina 



1. Bromelia laciniosa Mart, ex Schult. in R. & S. Syst. 7, pt. 2: 1278. 1830. 



Figure 79. 

 PiAui : Buriti, Dahlgren 971 (GH, US). Sao Joao do Piaui, Luetselburg 



(!Mez). 

 Paraiba: Soledade, Luetselburg (! Mez). 

 Baia: Cultivated, Occhioni (RB). Jacobina, Foster 100 (GH, R), Joazeiro, 



Luetselburg ( ! Mez). Machado Portelo, Rose & Russell 19904 (NY, US). 



Queimadas to Vila Nova da Rainha, Martins 2228 (M, type, F neg. 8641). 

 EspiRiTO Santo: Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Foster 168 (GH, R). Vitoria, 



Foster 195 (GH, R). 



2. Bromelia reversacantha Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3 : 198. 1891. 

 GoiAs: Rio Bagagem, Pohl 2205 (W, type), 



3. Bromelia arenaria Ule, Bot. Jahrb. 42:194. 1908. 

 Baia: Remanso, Ule 7151 (B, type, F neg. 11249). 



4. Bromelia binotii E, Morr. ex Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3: 192. 1891. 

 EspiRiTO Santo: Santa Teresa, Foster 857 (GH, US). Mun. Collatina: Colla- 



tina, Foster 226 (GH, R). Linhares, Foster 7%7 (GH, US). 

 Rio DE Janeiro: Cultivated, Jard. Bot. Liege (LG, type). 



5. Bromelia antiacantha Bertol. Virid. Bonon. 4. 1824; 4, Misc. : 6, pi. i. 1844. 



Bromelia acanga sensu Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 346. 1809. Not. L. 1767, 

 Bromelia fastuosa sensu Regel, Gartenflora 15 : i. 1866. Not Lindl. 1821. 



