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PrrcaiRNIA (Puyopsis) Banat Baker, sp. n. 
Basal leaves ensiform, very rigid, 212—3 ft. long, 1% in. broad 
slender spines ¥ in. long. Inflorescence panicled; racemes lax, 
subsecund, reaching a length of 8-9 in.; their rachises white-floc-. 
cose; branch-bracts oblong, cuspidate, serrated, 2-3 in. long; 
flower-bracts ovate-cuspidate, scarious, glabrous, 1—1 1% in. long; 
pedicels 17-34 in. long, white-floccose like the rachis. Sepals 
lanceolate, glabrous, od I inch long. Petals Lipi 15 inch 
beyond the calyx, curled up spirally as the flow 
Near P. Rusóyi and P. Weddeliana Baker. “Hand, Bromel- 
122, both plants of the Bolivian Andes. Vic. Sorata, Nov. 1892 
(1631). 
Puya Morris Baker, sp. n. (ex Mez Mon. Brom. 488). 
Basal leaves ensiform, very rigid, 217—3 ft. long, 2 in. broad at 
the base, tapering gradually to a long point, quite glabrous on 
both surfaces, armed on the margins with curved ascending horny 
prickles, those at the base of the leaf 1/ i in. long, the upper grow- 
ing gradually smaller. Inflorescence panicled; spikes moderately 
dense, 4-6 in. long ; rachis and bracts clothed with soft white woolly 
pubescence; flower-bracts oblong-mucronate, entire, the upper 
I in. the lower above 1% in. long; pedicels densely pubescent, 
ye » in. long; calyx densely persistently pubescent, I in. long ; 
sepals oblong, obtuse, much imbricated. Petals oblong, unguicu- 
late, obtuse, twice as long as the reie sone! greenish-white, 
Stamens distinctly shorter than the p 
Near Puya vestita Andre; Baker, Daub. Bromel. 125. Vie: So- 
rata, Nov., 1892 (1629). 
Guzmannia monostachya (L.) Rusby, ex Mez Mon. Brom. 905. = 
Tillandsia m. L. fide Baker, Handb. Brom. 152 — Gusmannia 
tricolor R. & P. Fl. Per. 2: 38. A. 26. Vic. Mapiri, 10,000 fi, 
Sept., 1892 (1582). . 
Tillandsia recmvata L. Sp. Pl. 287. Vic. Cochabamba, 1891 
(11542) — Mandon’s 1177. (Dr. Mez regards this as 7: Cor- 
dobensis Hieron.) 
Tillandsia stricta Soland. et Sims. Bot. Mag. pl. 7529 (1813), not 
Lindley, 1830. Vic.Sorata, Nov., 1892 (1628). (Dr. Mez regards 
this as 7: pulchella rosea Mez.) 
TILLANDSIA (ALLARDTIA) Banat! Baker, sp. n. 
Basal leaves lanceolate, entire, chartaceous, 17 ft. long, 2 in. 
