75a. DYCKIA COXIMENSIS Smith & Reitz, sp. nov.

D. pumilum L. B. Smith simulans sed foliorum laminis lepidibus persistentibus utrinque vestitis, inflorescentiae lepidibus rarissimis minutis- - simisque, sepalis triangulari-ovatis differt.

PLANT flowering 3 dm high. LEAVES incompletely known, over 10 cm long; sheaths suborbicular, 15 mm long, brown; blades recurving, narrowly triangular, 15 mm wide, pungent, covered on both sides with persistent appressed cinereous scales, very laxly serrate with flat spines 1 mm long. SCAPE erect, 2 mm in diameter, very sparsely and minutely white-lepidote; scape-bracts remote, small, ovate,acuminate, pungent. INFLORESCENCE simple, laxly few-flowered, 4 cm long; axis slender, very sparsely and minutely lepidote. FLORAL BRACTS broadly ovate, acuminate, the lower ones about equaling the sepals; flowers spreading; pedicels obconic, 1 m long. SEPALS triangular-ovate, obtuse, 5 mm long, the posterior carinate; petals 10 mm long, orange; blade suborbicular, slightly carinate; anthers slightly exserted; filaments free above the short tube; style very short. Pl. I, fig. 4; Leaf-margin x 1; fig. 5: Flower x 1; fig. 6: Sepal x 2.

BRAZIL: MATO GROSSO: on rocks, Rio Coxim, near Rodovia Federal - BR, 20 November 1968, Reitz 7365 (HBR, type; photo US).