NO. I 



BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 



i8S 



Petals obtuse; leaves thin, submembranaceous or papyraceous when dry, 

 finely serrulate. 

 2. Sepals nearly or quite free. 

 3. Inflorescence raised above the leaf -sheaths on a slender scape; leaf- 

 blades 20 mm. wide, green ; sepals subsymmetric 2. W. minuta 



3. Inflorescence sunk in the center of the leaf- rosette ; leaf -blades 45 mm. 

 wide ; sepals strongly asymmetric 3. W. amazonica 



Fig. 87. 



Fig. 87. — Canistrum lindenii var. roseuin f. procerum: a. Habit, X 1/18; 

 b, inflorescence, X i/io; c, floral bract and flower, X^', d, sepal, X i; ^, petal 

 and stamens, X i- (AH after Belgique Horticole.) 



Fig. 88. — Wittrockia stiperba: a. Leaf, X%', b, inflorescence, XJ^J 

 c, sepals, Xi', d, petal and stamen, X i- 



2. Sepals distinctly connate, subsymmetric. 

 4. Inflorescence sunk in the center of the leaf-rosette; leaves dark red, the 



blades to 6 cm. wide ; petals white and green 4. W. smithii 



4. Inflorescence raised above the leaf-sheaths on a long scape ; leaves green, 

 the blades much narrower. (Fig. 90.) 

 5. Sepals 28 mm. long; petals yellow at the apex. (Fig. 89.) 



5. W. campos-portoi 

 5. Sepals 12 mm. long; petals blue at the apex. (Fig. 90.) 



6. W. azurea 



I. Wittrockia superba Lindm. Svensk. Akad. Handl. 24: no. 8:20, pi. 2 

 figs. 13-21. Feb. 1891. Figure 88. 

 Nidularhim karatas sensu Wawra, Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 30 : 70. 1880 

 Not Lem. 1854. 



