54 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I26 



24. Pitcairnia aphelandriffora Lem. III. Hortic. 16: Misc. 90. 1869. 



Pepinia aphelandriflora Andre, 111. Hortic. 17 : 32, pi. 5. 1870. 

 Brazil: Probable, but not yet recorded. 

 Peru: Loreto: Rio Pumayacu (Balsapuerto), Sandeman 136 (K). 



25. Pitcairnia atnazonica Baker, Handb. Bromel. 117. 1889. 

 Amazonas: Serra Dimiti, basin of the upper Rio Negro, Schultes & Lopez 



10009 (US). 

 Also : Venezuela. 



26. Pitcairnia caricifolia Mart, in R. & S. Syst. 7, pt. 2 : 1242. 1830. Fig- 



ure II. 

 Pitcairnia kegeliana Schlecht. Linnaea 24:664. 1851. 

 Pitcairnia pauciflora Baker, Journ. Bot. 19 : 230. 1881. 

 Pitcairnia subjuncta Baker, Handb. Bromel. 116. 1889. 

 Amazonas: Rio Amazonas, Martins (M, type, F neg. 18759). (Cachoeira 



Caranguejo) Rio Cauaburi, Holt & Blake 425 (GH, NY, US). 

 Para: Rio Jaramacaru, Ducke (RB). 

 Also: Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana. 



27. Pitcairnia anomala Hoehne in Comm. Linh. Telegr. Estrat. Matto-Grosso 



[Publ. 47], Annexo 5, Bot. pt. 9: 9, pi. 161. 1919. 

 Para: Capipi Mission, Rio Cururu, Hoehne in Rondon 5151 (R, type). 

 Mato Grosso: Rio Juruena above Salto Augusto, Hoehne in Rondon 5081 (R, 

 US neg. 3390, 3391). 



8. Brocchinia Schult. f. 



Brocchinia Schult. f. in R. & S. Syst. 7, pt. 2: p. Ixx, 1250. 1830. 



Colombia and Venezuela. 



I. Petals without a claw; filaments free or nearly so; ovary wholly inferior. 

 2. Axes of the inflorescence straight; leaf -blades only nerved, not reticulate; 



primary bracts subfoliaceous, to 18 cm. long i. B. tatei 



2. Axes of the inflorescence geniculate ; leaf -blades reticulate ; primary bracts 

 broadly ovate, small; scape-bracts small, remote. 

 3. Scape about 3 mm. in diameter; leaves few, erect. (Fig. 12.) 



2. B. reducta 



3. Scape stouter ; leaves many, spreading 3. B. hechtioides 



I. Petals with a distinct claw; filaments of the second series much cotmate 

 with the petals ; ovary to one-fourth superior. 



4. Inflorescence (including the ovaries) glabrous 4. B. micrantha 



4. Inflorescence (including the ovaries) lepidote 5. B. paniculata 



I. Brocchinia tatei L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 161 : 29, pi. 4, fig. i. 1946. 

 Brocchinia cordylinoides sensu im Thurn ex N. E. Brown, Trans. Lirm. 

 Soc. Bot. II. 2 : 256, 269. 1887. 

 Brazil : Probable, but not yet recorded. 

 Venezuela: Mount Roraima, Tate 514 (NY, type). 



