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longer than broad, dense and sunk in the center of the leaf-rosette. 



2. S. longifolius 

 2. Floral bracts entire. 

 3. Flowers fasciculate on abbreviated branches ; floral bracts broadly ovate, 

 apiculate, exceeding the ovary ; sepals 16-22 mm. long. . . 3. S. poitaei 

 3. Flowers spicate on distinct branches. 

 4. Spikes distichous-flowered ; sepals 16-19 mm. long. 

 5. Floral bracts reniform, apiculate, much shorter than the ovary. 



(Fig. 54.) 4. S. poeppigii 



5. Floral bracts ovate, acuminate, equaling or exceeding the ovary. 

 6. Inflorescence pyramidal, subsessile in the center of the leaf-rosette. 



5. S. fuerstenburgii 



6. Inflorescence cylindric, distinctly scapose 6. S. williamsii 



4. Spikes polystichous-flowered. 



7. Inflorescence densely lanate; sepals much connate, 7 mm. long ex- 

 clusive of the stout mucro 7. S. lanatus 



7. Inflorescence sparsely furfuraceous, soon glabrous ; sepals free, 

 8 mm. long, merely apiculate 8. S. curranii 



1. Streptocalyx fforibundus (Mart, ex Schult.) Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, 



pt. 3:284. 1892. Figure 53. 

 Aechniea floribunda Mart, ex Schult. in R. & S. Syst. 7, pt. 2: 1271. 1830. 

 Pironneava platynema Gaud. Atl. Voy. Bonite pi. 64, 1843. 

 Aechmea platynema Baker, Journ. Bot. 17: 166. 1879. 

 Pironneava floribunda Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. 13, Beibl. 29: 14. 1891. 

 Brazil: Foster 378 (R). 

 EspiRiTO Santo: Vitoria, Foster 200 (GH, R, US). Mun. Collatina: Monte 



Claro, Foster 223 (GH), 

 Rio DE Janeiro: Caxias, Passareli (R). Maua, Hemmendorff 440 (R, S). 

 Niteroi, Smith & Brade 2348 (B, BA, BM, F, GH, K, P, S, US). Porto 

 da Caixa, Brade 15025 (RB, US). Restinga da Piratininga, /. G. Kuhl- 

 mann (RB). Surui, Foster 328 (GH). 

 DiSTRiTO Federal: Morro da Babilonia, Hoehne (GH, SP). Copacabana, Ule 

 4053- A (R). Corcovado, Duarte (RB). Rio de Janeiro, Burchell 76-a 

 (GH) ; Glasiou 8027 (BM, S) ; Hombron (P) ; Martins (M, type, F neg. 

 18762); Miers 3211 (BM) ; Mosen 4662 (S) ; Ule 4053 (R). Sao 

 Cristovao, Glasiou 5465 (P). 



2. Streptocalyx longifolius (Rudge) Baker, Handb. Bromel. 31. 1889. 



Bromelia longifolia Rudge, Guyan. i : 31, pi. 49. 1805. 

 Streptocalyx angustifolius Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3 : 283, pi. 62. 1892. 

 Amazonas: Ega (Tefe), Poeppig 2599 (W, type of Streptocalyx angustifolius 

 Mez). Cachoeirinha, Manaus, Luetzelburg 22106 (GH, M, R). Rio Negro, 

 Manaus, Ule 5280 (MG). 

 Also: Colombia, Peru. 



3. Streptocalyx poitaei Baker, Handb. Bromel. 31. 1889. 



Streptocalyx tessmantiii Harms, Notizblatt 9:1x51. 1927. 

 Amazonas: (Boa Sorte), Rio Jurua, /. G. Kuhlmann 1587 (RB). 

 Also: Peru, Colombia, French Guiana. 



