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BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 



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2. Neoglaziovia concolor C. H. Wright, Bot. Mag. 136: pi. 8348. 1910. 

 Baia: Cultivated, Kew (K, type, GH neg. 2721). Mun. Gloria: Schery 528 

 (GH). 



33. Portea C. Koch 



Portea C. Koch, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. for 1856, App. : 7. 1857. 



Endemic to Brazil. 



I. Inflorescence dense; primary bracts large, erect, nearly concealing the 

 branches; floral bracts ample, equaling the sepals i. P. kermesina 



Fig. 123. Fig. 124. 



Fig. 123. — Billbergia zehrina: a. Inflorescence, X^A', b, flower, X I. 

 (Both after Belgique Horticole.) 

 Fig. 124. — Neoglaziovia variegata: a. Habit (after M. B. Foster), X i/io; 

 h, floral bract and flower, Xi; c, longitudinal section of ovary, X 5- {b and c 

 after Flora Brasiliensis.) 



I. Inflorescence lax; primary bracts not concealing the branches; floral bracts 

 very narrow, surpassed by the sepals. 

 2. The inflorescence corymbose, as broad as long; sepals short-connate. 



(Fig. 125.) 2. P. leptantha 



2. The inflorescence much longer than broad; sepals connate for about half 

 their length. 

 3. Floral bracts high-connate with the pedicels and exceeding them. 



3. P. filifera 

 3. Floral bracts slightly if at all connate with the pedicels and much 

 shorter than they. 



