SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 126 



British Museum of Natural History 



(BM). 

 Jardin Botanique de I'fitat, Brussels 



(BR). 

 Jenman Herbarium, Department of 



Agriculture, British Guiana 



(BRG). 

 University of Cambridge, Great 



Britain (CGE). 

 Chicago Natural History Museum, 



formerly the Field Museum (F). 

 Faculdade de Filosofia da Bahia (FF 



Bahia). 

 Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique, 



Geneva (G). 

 Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer- 

 sity (GH). 

 Herbario "Barbosa Rodrigues," Itajai, 



Santa Catarina (HBR). 

 Institute Agronomico do Estado de 



Sao Paulo, Campinas (lAC). 

 Institute Agronomico do Norte, 



Belem, Para (IAN). 

 Institute Biologico de Pesquisas Tec- 



nicas, Curitiba, Parana (Inst. 



Biol. Pesq. Tec). 

 Institute de Pesquisas Agronomicas, 



Recife, Pernambuce (IPA). 

 Jardim Botanice de Belo Horizonte, 



Minas Gerais. Material studied 



new transferred to the Museu 



Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K). 



Institut et Jardin Botanique, Liege, 



Belgium (LG). 

 Institute Miguel Lille, Tucuman, Ar- 

 gentina (LIL). 

 Linnean Society of London (LINN). 

 Botanisches Museum, Munich (M). 

 Museu Goeldi, Belem, Para (MG). 

 University of Michigan (MICH). 

 Missouri Botanical Garden (MO). 

 Institut Botanique, Montreal (MT). 

 New York Botanical Garden (NY). 

 Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 



Paris (P). 

 G. F. J. Pabst, private herbarium, 



Santa Catarina (Pabst). 

 Museu Paranaense, Curitiba (Paran.). 

 Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (R). 

 Jardim Botanice do Rio de Janeiro 



(RB). 

 Riksmuseet, Stockholm (S). 

 Institute de Botanica, Sao Paulo 



(SP). 

 University of California (UC). 

 United States National Museum 



(US). 

 United States National Arboretum. 



Material studied now transferred 



to the United States National 



Museum. 

 Botanischer Garten imd Botanisches 



Institut der Universitat, Vienna 



(WU). 



The following are cited on the basis of duplicates, descriptions, 

 and photographs: 



Herbario Anchieta, Porto Alegre, Rio 

 Grande do Sul (Anchieta). 



Botanisches Museum, Berlin (B). 

 Bromeliaceae mostly lost. 



Botanical Museum and Herbarium, 

 Copenhagen (C). 



Komarov Botanical Institute of the 



Academy of Sciences of U. S. S.R., 



Leningrad (LE). 

 Botanisches Institut der Universitat, 



Leipzig (LZ). Bromeliaceae all 



lost. 

 Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna 



(W). Bromeliaceae all lost. 



Whenever it seems significant, I have cited personally unverified 

 collections and followed them with the name of the person responsible 

 for the record. Thus there are a number of collections in European 

 herbaria that are cited on the authority of Mez in order to give the 

 full distributional data for the species. One instance in particular 



