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Parana: Ilha das Pegas, Baia de Paranagua, Hort. Liege (LG, type). 

 Santa Catarina: Mun. Brusque: Ribeirao do Ouro, Reitz (HER); 3917 

 (HER). 



6b2. Forma parvum Reitz, Anais Bot. Herb. Earbosa Rodrigues 4: 19. 1952. 

 Canistrum lindenii var. viride forma exigimm Reitz, Anais Bot. Herb. 

 Earbosa Rodrigues 2 : 38. 1950. 

 Santa Catarina: Mun. Brusque: Brusque, Reits 3918 (HER). Ribeirao do 

 Ouro, Reits 3586 (HER). Mun. Florianopolis : Cacupe, Inst. Malariologia 

 (HER). Ribeirao da Ilha, Reits 3922 (HER). Mun. Nova Trento: Morro 

 do Bom Socorro, Reits 3647 (HER); 3914 (HER). Mun. Palhoga: 

 Garopaba, Reits 3698 (HER). 



6c. Canistrum lindenii var. roseum (E. Morr.) L. B. Smith, Anais Bot. 

 Herb. Earbosa Rodrigues 2 : 14. 1950. 



6ci. Forma procerum Reitz, Anais Bot. Herb. Earbosa Rodrigues 4: 19. 1952. 

 Figure 87. 

 Canistrum roseum E. Morr. Eelg. Hortic. 29: 301. 1879. 

 Aechmea rosea Baker, Handb. Eromel. 68. 1889. 

 ? Aechmea fusca Baker, Handb. Eromel. 69. 1889. 

 ? Canistrum fuscum E. Morr. ex Mez in Mart. FI. Eras. 3, pt. 3 : 257. 



1891. 

 ? Canistrum binotii Mez, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 16:5. 1919. 

 Canistrum lindenii var. roseum forma elatum Reitz, Anais Bot. Herb. 

 Earbosa Rodrigues 2:38. 1950. 

 Brazil: Cultivated, Atkinson 120 (MT) ; Comte de Germiny (LG, type, GH 



neg. 2932). 

 EspiRiTO Santo: Santa Teresa, Foster 292 (GH, R). 



Rio DE Janeiro: Petropolis, Foster 337 (GH, R). Teresopolis, collector? (R). 

 Sao Paulo: Moinho Velho, Gehrt (GH, SP). Sorocaba, Santos, Mosen 



3803 (S). 

 Parana: Curitiba to the sea, Foster 456 (GH). Jacarei, Dusen 15522 (GH, 



S) ; 17054 (GH, S). Volta Grande, Dusen 12069 (S). 

 Santa Catarina: Elumenau, Reits (HER). Mun. Eiguaqu: Fachinal, Reits 

 4155 (HER). Mun. Brusque: Ribeirao do Ouro, Reits (HER); 3561 in 

 part (HER, US) ; 3587 (HER). 



6c2. Forma humile Reitz, Anais Bot. Herb. Earbosa Rodrigues 4: 19. 1952. 

 Canistrum lindenii var. roseum forma exiguum Reitz, Anais Bot. Herb. 

 Earbosa Rodrigues 2:38. 1950. 

 Santa Catarina: Mun. Ararangua: Sombrio, Reits C-ioii (GH, HER). 

 Mun. Brusque: Mata Azambuja, Inst. Malariologia (HER). Brusque, 

 Mata Sao Pedro, Reits 3181 (HER, US). Mun. Florianopolis: Ribeirao 

 da Ilha, Reits 3833 (HER) ; 3928 (HER). 



26. Wittrockia Lindm. 



Wittrockia Lindm. Svensk. Akad. Handl. 24: no. 8: 15, 20. 1891. 



Endemic to Brazil. 



I. Petals acute; leaves coriaceous when dry, bearing spines up to 4 mm. long. 

 (Fig. 88.) I. W. superba 



