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I, Leaves glabrous or, if lepidote, always less than 20 mm. wide; inflorescence 

 remaining pale. 

 3. Axis of the inflorescence glabrous; leaves glabrous. 



4. Inflorescence lax, few-flowered Var. c. corcovadensis 



4. Inflorescence dense, at least toward the apex, many-flowered. 



5. Petals red Var. d. glabrior 



5. Petals yellowish white Var. e. pallida 



3. Axis of the inflorescence lepidote Var. f. iloccosa 



8a. Pitcairnia Hammea var. Sammea. Figure 8. 



? Tillandsia laevis Veil. Fl. Fluminensis 133. 1825 ; Icon. 3 : pi. 126. 1835. 



Not Pitcairnia laevis Willd. 1830. 

 ? Pitcairnia fulgens Poit. Rev. Hortic. 3:157. Jan. 1836; Mez in DC. 



Monogr. Phan. 9:430. 1896. 

 Pitcairnia morelii Lem. Hort. Univ. 7:231, pi. 1846. 

 Pitcairnia laevis Beer, Bromel. 60. 1857. Not Willd. 1830. 

 Pitcairnia roezlii sensu Baker, Bot. Mag. 117: pi. 7175. 1891. Not E. 



Morr. 



Fig. 8. 



Fig. 7. — Deuterocohnia meziana: a, Habit (after M. B. Foster), X 1/40; 



b, flower, y^i; c, sepal, Y^i; d, petal and stamen, X i- 



Fig. 8. — Pitcairnia flammea var. flammea: a, Habit, Xi/io; b, flower (after 



Botanical Register), X J^ ; ^ ^ sepal, y,i; d, petal, X !• 



Brazil: Cultivated (K, basis of "Pitcairnia roezlii" in Bot. Mag. pi. 7175). 



Cultivated, "Rivage" (G, basis of citation of Pitcairnia ftilgens Poit. in 



DC. Monogr. Phan. 9:430). 

 EsPiRiTO Santo: Cuibiga, Foster 894 (GH). Domingos Martins, Foster 233 



(GH). 



