species. A. bracteatus var. hondurensis is reduced to A. 
comosus because it is obvious from the description that 
it was based on a well known form of the cultivated 
pineapple. Baker and Collins were unable to find any 
material of this variety in Bertoni’s collection. A.bracte¬ 
atus var. paraguariensis they found still growing in his 
garden and obtained specimens which are beyond doubt 
A. comosus . 
Ananas erectifolius L. B. Smith sp. nov. 
Ananas sp. Ducke in Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Jan¬ 
eiro 5 (1930) 81. 
Foliis rosulatis, strictis, erectis, 1 m. vel ultra longis, 
laminis ca. 35 mm. latis, apice involuto pungenti excepto 
omnino inermibus, supra glabris, subtus minute albido- 
lepidotis; scapo erecto, elongato, gracili, vivo ad 15 mm. 
diametro; scapi bracteis foliaceis, erectis; syncarpio sub* 
cylindrico, vivo ad 12 cm. longo et 5 cm. diametro, basi 
apiceque ramulis brevibus foliaceis proferente, coma 
magna; bracteis florigeris parvis, inermibus; sepalislate 
ovatis, obtusis, 7 mm. longis; petalis 17 mm. longis. 
seminibus perpaucis vel nullis. 
Brazil, cultivated in Estancia Rio Pedras, Campinas, State of S»° 
Paulo in 1938 from material brought from the Amazon Basin by • 
Adolpho Ducke, Baker $ Collins 9 (Type in Gray Herb.); State® 
Para, SantarSm, 1932, Roy Carr s.n. (Field Museum, No. 659515, 
659516, 659517). 
The stiff* upright entire leaves of this species 
diately distinguish it from all others. They yield a g 
fiber for which the plant has been cultivated. The fr^ 1 / 
although practically seedless, is so poor as to be neg ig 1 
ble. The species grows abundantly in low open country 
on the point west of the mouth of the Rio Tapajoz. 
is also said to be common in northwestern Maran 8 
between the Rio Maracassume and the Rio Tury-Assu- 
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