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12. Abolboda acicularis Idrobo & Smith, Caldasia 6: 250. 1954. 



Key to the Varieties of A. acicularis 



1. Leaves smooth, subsubulate, densely rosulate, 1-2 cm long; cephalar bracts and 



sepals obtusish, conspicuously aristate. var. acicularis. 



1. Leaves strongly granular, piano-triquetrous, little or not densely rosulate, (1) 2-6 

 cm long; cephalar bracts and sepals finely acute and merely mucronulate; flowers 

 white. var. granularis. 



Abolboda aciularis var. acicularis. 



Specimens examined: terrestrial herb, Savanna de Yapoboda, Alto Rio Cuduyari, Vaupes, 

 Colombia, Dec 10, 1943, Paul H. Allen 3150 (holotype, COL) ; Rio Parana, Pichuna, Vaupes, 

 Colombia, Schultes 4- Cabrera 19926 (COL); 19966 (COL); open savanna, 1 km. west Caea- 

 gual, Colombia, Rio Atabapo, Maguire, Wurdaclc 4' Bunting 36288 (intermediate). 



Abolboda acicularis var. granularis Maguire, var. nov. 



Folia valde granularia, plano-triquetra, vulgo 2-6 mm longa ; bracteis eepha- 

 laribus acutissime aeutis et tantum mucromilatis. 



Type : perennial herb with white flowers, occasional in open marshy area, 

 Sabana Venado, left bank Cano Pimichm, above Puerto Pimichin, at 140 m alt,, 

 Nov 23, 1953, Rio Guainia, Terr. Amazonas, Venezuela, Maguire, Wurdaclc d° 

 Bunting 36341 (holotype NY). 



Additional specimens: Sabana Yenado, Maguire 4' Wurdaclc 35594; Cerro Yapoboda, 

 Yaupes, Colombia, Schultes 4- Cabrera 14379-C [fragment] (COL). 



13. Abolboda ciliata Maguire & Wurdack, sp. nov. Figure 2. 



Herbae perennes caudieibus erectis 6-8 cm longis, 2.5-3.0 mm diam. ; foliis 

 rosulatis linearibus 4-9 cm longis, 1.5-3.0 mm latis, plano-triquetris marginibus 

 involutis serrulato-ciliatis, apice truncato, unilateraliter mucronato-aduneulatis, 

 basi expansa scariosa amplectanti; scapo solitario axillari, 15-25 em longo, ca. 

 1.5 mm diam. ; bracteis 1 jugo subappositis amplectantibus lineari-lanceolatis ca. 

 4 cm longis, late scariosomarginatis obtusis, in medio scapo vel sursum affixis ; 

 spicis globosis vel obpyriformibus, ca. 15 mm longis, ca. 10-floris; bracteis sub- 

 tendentibus 2, lanceolatis late scariosomarginatis. 12-14 mm longis; sepalis 2, 

 navicularibus carinatis ca. 8 mm longis, late searioso-marginatis ; ovario obpyri- 

 formi, ca. 5 mm longo, 2.5-3.0 mm lato. apice 3-lobato, lobis 0.8 mm longis erosis ; 

 scminibus oblique ovali-oblongis, 10-12 spiraliter costatis, rubro-brunneis, 1.0- 

 1.2 mm longis, 0.6 mm latis. 



Type : perennial herb, fruiting only, locally frequent in boggy open cumbre 

 savanna. 5 km. west Cumbre Camp, at 1900 m alt,, Cerro de la Neblina, Terr. 

 Amazonas, Venezuela, Jan 6. 1954. Maguire, ~Wurdaelx & Bunting 37132 (holo- 

 type NY). 



Known only by the type collection. 



14. Abolboda ebracteata Maguire & YYurdaek, sp. nov. 



Herbae perennes rhizomate horizontali brevi ; foliis primariis convolutis 6-12 

 cm longis, ca. 1 mm diam. (convolutis), basi va^inata, marginibus conspicue 

 scariosis, apice abrupte obtuso, seta caduea instructis, foliis secondariis (vel 

 juvenilibus) 1.5-2.5 cm longis; scapo solitario. 10-20 cm longo, ad basim 3 vel 4 

 lineari-acuminatis subscariosis bracteis 1-3 cm longis subtento, aliter scapo ebrac- 

 teato ; spicis 3-4-floribus, 2 bracteis cephalaribus subtentis, exteriore ca. 15 mm 

 longa et spicam exsuperanti, interiore ca, 10 mm longa et spicae subaequali. 

 ambobus laneisubulatis, deorsum expansis et amplectantibus, sursum subulatis 

 obtusis probabiliter seta caduca instructis ; floribus vulgo 3 ; sepalis 2. 8-10 mm 



