870 BLII.I.KIIN DK i/hKRKIKR BOISSIKR (i'"« SKU.). (5(5) 



+ 0,18 m. longa et usqiie ad 32 min. la la. viridia, sicca chartaceo- 

 coriacea. Scapns gracillimiis. teres, glaber. laxe vaginis haiid foliaceis, 

 non nisi fraginentarie niilii cognilis prsediliis. Inflorescenlia 4-8-nora, 

 laxiiisciila, usqiie ad 90 mm. longa mihi visa; axi in sicco angulato, 

 leviier geniciilalo; bracleis rigide coriaceis, glabris Uevibiisque, late 

 ovalo-ellipLicis, siibereclo-erecLis. + 22 mm. longis. Flores pedicellis 

 crassis. in slatii friiclifero usqiie ad o mm. longis stipitati; sepalis crasse 

 coriaceis, laie elliplicis, band linealis. + lo mm. longis et 8 mm. latis. 

 — Cet. ignota. 



Coslarica, prope la Pahna, ail. ioOO m. : Wercklé. Bromel. Coslaric. 

 n« (56. — (tlerb. Mez.) 



Obs. A simillima Vriesea viminali Ed. Morr. Ibliis brevioribus, inflores- 

 cenlia laxiore salis dilïerl. 



Thecophyllum singuliflorum Mez et Wercklé nov. spec. — 

 Acaulis; foliis haud piclis, e basi in apicern persensim angustatis, 

 + 150 mm. longis; scapo ereclo, vaginis foliaceis, inlernodia superan- 

 libus indiilo; inflorescenlia perpauciflora, simplicissima subspicata, 

 oplime secunda; bracleis qiiaquaversis, ex ovale in laminam anguslam, 

 peracutam, reflexam, florem singiilum axillarem superanlem produclis; 

 floribus patenlibus. 



Florifera +; 0.25 m. alla, gracilis. Folia mulla dense rosulala, omnia 

 suberecto-erecla, basi in vaginas magnas, ovalo-elliplicas, inferne casta- 

 neas prope apicern violascenles producla, super vaginas 15-20 mm. lala 

 inde in apicern subulato-aciitissimiim anguslala elongale triangularia, 

 praeter lepides minulissimas, brunnescenles, quam maxime appressas 

 glabra, sicca rigidiila. Scapus validiiiscnhis, glaber, folia subseqiians, 

 vaginis violaceis, elongale angusteque Iriangularibus, strictissime erectis, 

 sicut folia lepidotiilis prseditus. inflorescenlia in specimine lypico laxe 

 5-flora, 75 mm. longa; bracleis cum floribus secunde versis, e basi 

 lalissinie ovata, rigidula, valde concava florem axillarem subinvol vente, 

 + 17 mm. longa in laminam eleganter reflexo-curvatam, ad 20 mm. 

 longam acuminatim produclis. Flores pedicellis percrassis ad basin 

 bracleola minulissima (3 mm.) ovalo-elliptica, rotundala, lenera inslruclis, 

 + 6 mm. longis stipitati; sepalis crasse coriaceis, glabris Isevibusque 

 miro modo sat ineequalibus : anticis binis 19 mm. longis ex elliplico 

 acutiusculis, poslico 16 mm. longo apice late rotundato. — Cet. ignola. 



Coslarica, loco non indicato: Wercklé, Bromel. Coslaric. n" 89. — 

 (Herb. Mez.) 



Obs. Species salis singniaris, ob bracteas flores singulos gerentes non 

 nisi Th. insigni (Ed. IMorr.) Mez aflinis. 



