NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH 3 



to collect in the two great national parks administered by the Jardim, 

 Itatiaia and Serra dos Orgaos. 



Dra. Heloisa Alberto Torres, director of the Museu Nacional, not 

 only provided me with every facility in the herbarium but also ar- 

 ranged for a rapid series of field trips in Rio and Minas with the 

 help of the whole department of botany under the leadership of Dr. 

 F. Segadas Vianna. Here I should explain that owing to the number 

 of people on these trips I was obliged to abbreviate the citation of 

 collections to "Smith & Mus R," indicating that the number was mine 

 but the expedition a joint enterprise. 



Dr. Alexandre Curt Brade, both when at the Museu and later at 

 the Jardim, has helped me exceedingly with specimens and with his 

 detailed knowledge of botanical history and geography. 



I have studied with Father Raulino Reitz in his Herbario "Barbosa 

 Rodrigues" while enjoying the hospitality of the Seminario at Azam- 

 buja, Brusque, and have collected widely with him in eastern Santa 

 Catarina. 



As my citations will indicate, I have received help by brief meet- 

 ings and by correspondence with a number of other Brazilian bota- 

 nists. Among these are Dr. Felisberto Camargo, former director of 

 the Instituto Agronomico do Norte and authority on the pineapple; 

 Dr. J. Mur^a Fires, head of the department of botany of the same; 

 Dr. A. Ducke, famous explorer of the Amazon ; Father Bento Pickel, 

 formerly of the Instituto das Pesquizas Agronomicas, Pernambuco, 

 and his successor, Dr. Dardano A. Lima; Dr. Joao Jose Seabra of 

 the Faculdade de Filosofia da Bahia; Dr. Amaro Macedo of Ituiutaba, 

 Minas Gerais; Dr. Carlos Stellfeld, Director of the Museu Paranaense; 

 Dr. Guenter Tessmann and Dr. Gert Hatschbach of Curitiba, Parana ; 

 the late Father Eugenio Leite ; and Father B. Rambo, director of the 

 Herbario Anchieta and authority on the flora of Rio Grande do Sul. 

 Finally, there remain a host of Brazilians too numerous to mention 

 whose help in the herbarium and in the field is warmly remembered. 



MATERIAL 



I am indebted to those in charge of the following herbaria for the 

 opportunity to study their material (abbreviations wherever possible 

 follow Lanjouw & Stafleu, Index Herbariorum, part i) : ^ 



Museo Argentine de Ciencias Na- Bailey Hortorium, Ithaca, New York 

 turales Bernardino Rivadavia, (BH). 



Buenos Aires (BA). 



2 Regnum Vegetabile 2 ; 1-167. 1952. 



