156 JBS 58(4). 2008 JBS 58(4). 2008 157 A new species of racinaea from Peru Scientific and more apiculate, erect with recurv- ing apex, densely cinereous-lepidote; primary-bracts spreading, elliptic, the lower ones like the peduncle-bracts, 2-3 cm long, 0.8-1 cm wide, slightly exceeding or shorter than the stipe, apiculate, densely cinereous lepidote, branches 3-12 cm long, with a stipe of 1.2-3 cm length and without sterile bracts, lower branches divided into 3-6 (the upper less divided) spikes, lax, polystichous; secondary-bracts ellipti- cal, lepidote, 6-8 mm long exceeded by the sterile bases of the spikes. Spikes arching-pendulous, laxly distichously 3-8-flowered, 1-3.5 cm long, 0.6 cm wide, rachis exposed by the bracts, flexuous to geniculate, subterete, internodes 3-5 mm, green, lepidote; stipes 1-1.5 cm long, without sterile bracts, subterete; floral- bracts 3-5 mm long, 4,5 mm wide, ovate, apiculate and the apex incurved, in the upper part carinate, densely cinereous-lepidote, much shorter than the sepals, remote to each other, cinereous-green. Flowers subsessile, the lower ones pendulous-secund, corolla yellow; sepals free, 6 mm long, extended 3 mm wide, obovate, asymmetrical, the adaxial ones carinate, obtuse, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely covered with fer- rugineous trichomes, brown to yellow; petals 7 mm long, yellow, spathulate, acute, the blade spreading with recurving apex; stamens basally adnate to the petals; filaments 2-3 mm long, flat, white; anthers sagittate and closely arranged arround the stigma, 1 mm long, yellow; ovary 1.5 mm long, ovoid; style 1 mm long, with a 0.5 mm long stigma. Fruit subcylindric. Holotype: Robin B. Foster 9043 (holotype: MO), PERU, Pasco, Cerro Pajonal “Chacos”, 12 km al SE de Oxapampa, Cordillera Yanachaga, Oxapampa, 10 o 35´S 75 o 20´ W, Alt. 2700-2800 m, 7 Oct. 1982. Paratypes: C. Porter, R. Fernandez & P. Wittman PE08-60 (USM), PERU, Dpto. Cuzco, Prov. Cuzco, Acjanaco, on Acjanaco-Pillahuata Road, 13 o 10.688´S 71 o 35.123´W, Alt. 2.969 m. 4 Mar. 2005. C. Porter, R. Fernandez & P. Wittman PE08-358 (USM), PERU, Dpto. Cuzco, Prov. Paucartambo, Pillahuata, 13 o 10.689´S 71 o 3.125´W, Alt. 2.904 m. 1 Apr. 2005. C. Porter, R. Fernandez & P. Wittman PE08-298 (USM); PERU, Dpto. Cuzco, Pillahuata, 13 o 10.759´S 71 o 35.023’W, Alt. 2,178 m. 27 Mar. 2005. Habitat and distribution: misty, cloudy and cool montane forest at the Amazonian side of the Andes of Dept. Pasco to Dept. Cuzco, Peru (not yet known from Dept. Junin but probably there), betweent about 2100-3000 m. Scientific A new species of Racinaea (Bromeliaceae) from Peru Eric John Gouda and José Manuel Manzanares. Photographs by Philip Wittman. By coincidence both authors were initially working independently on manuscripts describing material that, we later found out, related to the same new species. Man- zanares had the specimen collected by Robin B. Foster on loan from the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) and Gouda was working on the C. Porter et al. specimen after Ricardo Fernández contacted Gouda by email for a name for their 3 collections from Cuzco. The much smaller Foster specimen has been chosen for the holotype because it was collected at anthesis. This specimen seems to be slightly more bulbose than the comparatively utriculate Porter et al. collections. The taller plants of the Porter et all. collections are from the Dept. of Cuzco and are collected not more than 50 km apart of each other, but the Foster collection is 500 km to the North-East in the Dept. of Pasco. All collections are from the damp montane forest at the Amazonian side of the main ridge of the Andes, Peru. Racinaea penduliflora Gouda & Manzan., sp.nov. Planta florens 30-40 cm alta rosula utriculata. Laminae triangulares basi 3 cm latae, cinereo- lepidotae. Inflorescentia inclinata, bis vel ter ramificata ramulis distincte stipitatis, spicis deflexis vel pendulis. Flores deorsum secundi vel penduli. Bracteae florales carinatae dense lepidotae, sepalis 6 mm longis superatae. Plant an epiphyte, flow- ering 30-40 cm tall, rosulate, rosette utriculate, ca. 24 cm wide, with 20-30 leaves, the inflorescence much exceed- ing the leaves. Leaves densely cinereous-lepidote, numerous; sheaths 7-11 cm long, 5.5 cm wide, conspicuous, sub-erect, ovate-elliptic, densely lepidote, brown castaneous to brown reddish in the upper part; blades 15-20 cm long, ca. 3 cm wide at the base, triangular, spreading, nearly flat, attenuate, recurving, often with purple spots and/or margins, densely lepidote, cinereous green. Inflorescence 17-45 cm long (stretched), 12-15 cm wide, arching to one side, laxly paniculate, green, densely cinereous lepidote except the sepals ferrugineous lepidote, 2 times branched or slightly 3 times branched, with 10-15 branches 2 cm apart from each other; peduncle about equaling to exceeding the leaves, 18-30 cm long, 3-4 mm in diameter, erect to curved; peduncle-bracts: the lower ones exceeding the internodes and imbricate, soon shorter than the internodes, 3.5-6 cm long, extended 1 cm wide, the lower ones triangular, attenuate, the upper elliptic Figure 1. A, flower; B, floral bract; C, sepal; D, petal, stamen, pistil and ovary. Drawing by J. Manzanares. Figure 2. Racinaea penduliflora in fruit (coll. PE08-60).