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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Growing in muddy margins of pools, in small clumps, not 

 common, at Ixiamas, 700 to 800 feet, 0. E. White, December 17, 

 1921 {no. 2312). 



Bromeliaceae 

 Aechmea ellipsoidea 



(Fruiting specimen.) Lower leaf-surfaces and younger parts 

 gray-furfuraceous, the inflorescence white-floccose. Leaf (but 

 one seen) probably 8 dm. or more long, the lower portion want- 

 ing, 5 cm. wide, ligulate, shortly and stoutly cuspidate, serrulate 

 with falcately ascending pungent teeth about 2 mm. long and a 

 little more than 1 cm. apart; thin and semi-rigid, finely many- 

 nerved and lightly channeled, pale-green above, gray-green and 

 moderately furfuraceous beneath. Stem (only the upper 3 dm. 

 seen), stout, erect, densely clothed nearly to the summit with 

 erect or appressed, imbricated bracts, the uppermost and small- 

 est of which is 4 or 5 cm. long and more than one cm. wide, lan- 

 ceolate, with clasping base and attenuate summit. Spike soli- 

 tary, terminal, ellipsoidal, 7 cm. long, 3 cm. thick, the flowers 

 densely crowded. Peduncle short, very stout, densely floccose, 

 the rachis 2 mm. thick. Bracts floccose, closely enclosing the cap- 

 sule, 2- or 3(?)-lobed, concave on the back, where the neighbor- 

 ing capsule adjoins it, the concavity winged. Capsule 1.5 cm. 

 long and half as wide, ovoid, somewhat angled. Persistent calyx- 

 lobes 6 mm. long, black, minutely papillose, ovate, obtuse, erect, 

 thick and coriaceous. Seeds 3 or 4 mm. long, stipitate, com- 

 pressed-triangulate, obtuse, papillose. 



Near Asunto, 2,800 feet, 0. E. White, August 6, 1921 {no. 

 633). 



''Common in leaf -mould, in damp shady woodlands; about 4 

 feet high." 



Guzmania obtusa 



Pale-green, glabrous and a]ipearing as though glaucous. 

 Leaves densely imbricated at the base, mostly shorter than the 

 spike, to 17 dm. long and 3 cm. wide, linear-oblong, or oblanceo- 

 late, acute, dilated at the base, thin, finely many-nerved. Stem 

 in my specimen about 2 dm. long, inclusive of the spike, stout, 

 completely clothed with imbricated and appressed bracts about 

 3 cm. long and 1 to 2 cm. wide, the lower ovate, acuminate and 

 acute, the middle obtuse but with a terminal awn, gradually pass- 



