NO. I BROMELIACEAE OF BRAZIL — SMITH l8l 



25. Canistruitt E. Morr. 



Canistrum E. Morr. Belg. Hortic. 23 : 257. 1873. 



Endemic to Brazil except for one species in Trinidad. 



I. Scape completely covered by its entire bracts ; pollen-grains with many pores ; 



sepals strongly asymmetric, 15-17 mm. long i. C. aurantiacum 



I. Scape largely naked; pollen-grains biporate so far as known. 

 2. Inflorescence and scape glabrous or inconspicuously appressed-lepidote. 

 3. Leaf-spines not more than 3 mm. long; scape long and slender; sepals 

 16-30 (rarely to 34) mm. long. 

 4. Sepals narrowly triangular, subsymmetric, 22-34 m™- long; scape- 

 bracts and primary bracts serrate. (Fig. 86.) 



2. C. cyathiforme 



4. Sepals strongly asymmetric with a broadly truncate apex, 16 mm. 



long ; scape-bracts and primary bracts entire — 3. C. f osterianum 



3. Leaf-spines to 7 mm. long ; scape short and stout so that the inflorescence 



is but little elevated above the leaf-sheaths ; sepals 38 mm. long. 



4. C. giganteum 

 2. Inflorescence and scape densely ferruginous-lanate. 

 5. Scape 4 mm. in diameter ; inflorescence 6-7 cm. in diameter without the 



bracts ; petals bearing 2 narrow calli 5. C. perplexum 



5. Scape stout ; inflorescence 7-12 cm. in diameter without the bracts ; petals 

 bearing 2 fimbriate scales at the base. (Fig. 87.) 6. C. lindenii 



1. Canistrum aurantiacum E. Morr. Belg. Hortic. 23:257, pi 15. 1873. 



Aechmea aurantiaca Baker, Journ. Bot. 17:235. 1879. 

 Brazil: Cultivated, E. Morr en (LG, type ?). 



Pernambuco: (Dois Irmaos), Ridley, Lea & Ramage (BM). Recife, Foster 

 2428 (GH, US). 



2. Canistrum cyathiforme (Veil.) Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3:252. 1891. 



Figure 86. 

 Tillandsia cyathiformis Veil. Fl. Fluminensis 137. 1825; Icon. 3: pi. 144. 



1835. 

 Karatas regnellii Baker, Handb. Bromel. 10. 1889. In part, not as to type 



(Nidtdarium giganteum). 

 Regelia regnellii Lindm. Oefvers. Vet. Akad. Forhandl. 47 : 543. 1890. 

 Mosenia sicarius Lindm. Svensk. Akad. Handl. 24 : no. 8 : 27, pi. 5, 



figs. i-ii. 1 89 1. 

 Canistrum regnellii Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3:252. 1891. 

 Canistrum schwackeaniim Mez, Bot. Jahrb. 30, Beibl. 6y : 4. 1901. 

 Brazil: Sellow (B, F neg. 11304) ; Voss (GH, SP). 



MiNAS Gerais: Pedra Branca, Caldas, Regnell III-1259 (B (F neg. 11303), 

 S, US). Corrego Alegre, Kiihhnann & Gehrt (GH, SP). Pouso Alegre, 

 Salvador (GH, SP). 

 Rio DE Janeiro: Cachoeira do Rancho Frio, Serra dos Orgaos, Erode 16627 



(RB). Teresopolis, Foster 1014 (GH, US). 

 Sao Paulo: Alto da Serra, Hoehtie (GH, SP) ; L. 5. Smith 1843 (B, GH, S). 

 Apiai, M. Kuhlmann (GH, SP). Campos da Bocaina, Loefgren & Edwall 

 (SP, GH neg. 7174). Serra da Bocaina, Erode 21150 (RB, US). Campos 



