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7. Streptocalyx lanatus L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 95 : 45, pi. 11, figs. 4, 



5- 1931. 

 Baia: Rio Grungogi, Curran 138 (US, type). 



8. Streptocalyx curranii L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 95 : 44, pi. 11, figs. 



7-9' 1931. 

 Baia: Rio Grungogi, Curran 143 (US, type). Agua Preta, Foster 51 (GH). 



18. Neoregelia L. B. Smith 



Neoregelia L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 104 : 78. 1934. 



Largely natives of eastern Brazil with a few Amazonian and one 

 species extending into eastern Colombia and Peru. 



I. Inflorescence compound. 

 2. Petals free ; axes glabrous ; leaves thick, coriaceous. 

 3. Inflorescence many-flowered, 6-8 cm. in diameter; leaf-spines 5-7 mm. 



long ; sepals 21-26 mm. long i. N. eleutheropetala 



3. Inflorescence 5-15-flowered, 3 cm. in diameter; leaf-spines 2 mm. long; 



sepals 12 mm. long 2. N. myrmecophila 



2. Petals connate at base ; axes ferruginous-lepidote ; leaves not coriaceous ; 

 floral bracts about equaling the sepals, serrulate; sepals 15 mm. long. 



3. N. fosteriana 

 I. Inflorescence simple; petals connate at base so far as known. 

 4. Inner leaves of the rosette bright red. 



5. Leaves marked with strong transverse bands on the underside and with 

 a red spot at the apex; sepals uncinate, strongly asymmetric, 18-23 



mm. long 4. N. spectabilis 



5. Leaves concolorous or rarely with longitudinal bands ; sepals straight. 

 6. Underside of the leaves covered with coarse appressed cinereous scales ; 

 sepals acute or acuminate. 

 7. Leaf-blades about 15 mm. wide; floral bracts serrulate. 



5. N. pineliana 

 7. Leaf -blades to 40 mm. wide; floral bracts entire. 

 8. Sepals 27 mm. long; (? inner leaves red). 



(28. N. macrosepala) 

 8. Sepals 24-27 mm. long. 

 9. Pedicels s mm. long, exceeding the inner floral bracts. 



6. N, princeps 

 9. Pedicels to 15 mm. long, shorter than the floral bracts. 



7. N. farinosa 

 6. Underside of the leaves bearing minute inconspicuous scales; floral 



bracts entire. 

 ID. Pedicels 10-20 mm. long; sepals to 34 mm. long; scape elongate; 



rosette tubular 8. N. bahiana 



ID. Pedicels shorter; scape short. 

 II. Inflorescence few-flowered. 



12. Leaf -blades concolorous; floral bracts about equaling the 



sepals ; sepals very short-connate 9. N. olens 



12. Leaf -blades bearing a red spot at the apex; floral bracts about 

 equaling the ovary; sepals connate for more than a third 

 of their length 10. N. indecora 



