l86 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I26 



Nidulariunt wawreanum Mez in Mart. FI. Bras. 3, pt. 3 : 245. Nov. 1891. 



Canistrum cruentum F. Mueller, Gartenflora 42: 717. 1893. 



Canistrum superbum Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3 : 620. 1894. 



Nidularium superbum Ule, Verb. Bot. Ver. Brand. 48 : 149. 1907. 

 DiSTEiTO Federal : Tijuca, Glasiou 13251 (GH). 

 Sao Paulo: Santos, Foster 487 (GH) ; Mosen 3704 (S). 

 Parana: Near Santa Catarina boundary on Joinvile-Curitiba road, Reits 



3758-b (HBR). 

 Santa Catarina: Brusque, Reits (HBR). Mun. Ararangua: Sombrio, Reitz 

 C-493 (GH, HBR, US). 



2. WittTOckia minuta (Mez) L. B. Smith, Arquiv. Bot. Estado Sao Paido 



nov. ser. 2: 197. 1952. 

 Nidularium minutum Mez, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 16 : 4. 1919. 

 Canistrum minutum L. B, Smith, Proc. Amer. Acad. 68: 145, pi. i, figs. 4, 5. 



1933- 

 Sao Paulo: Alto da Serra, Foster 359 (GH) ; King (SP) ; D. Lemos (SP, 

 US); L. B. Smith, Hoehne & Kuhlmann 1829 (GH, US). Cultivated 

 from material sent from Alto da Serra by Wackett, Mes (B, type). 



3. Wittrockia amazonica (Baker) L. B. Smith, Arquiv. Bot. Estado Sao 



Paulo nov. ser. 2 : 197. 1952. 

 Karatas amasonica Baker, Gard. Chron. nov. ser. 25 : 814. 1886. 

 Nidularium amasonicum Lindm. Oefvers. Vet. Akad. Forhandl. 47 : 541. 



1890. 

 Canistrum amasonicum Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3 : 249. 1891. 

 Brazil: Cultivated, Royal Bot. Gard. (K, type, GH neg. 2686); Jard Bot. 

 Liege (LG). 



4. Wittrockia smithii Reitz, Anais Bot. Herb. Barbosa Rodrigues 4 : 19, pi. 5. 



1952. 



Parana : Curitiba to Paranagua, Reits 5760 (HBR, US). 



Santa Catarina: Ribeirao Grande, Taio, Reits 4150 (HBR). Mun, Bignaqu: 

 Fachinal, Reits 4207 (HBR, type). Mun. Blumenau: Morro Spitzkopf, 

 Reits 4658 (HBR); Smith & Reits 6282 (US); 6292 (R, US). Mun. 

 Brusque: Ribeirao do Ouro, Reits 3561 in part (HBR, US). Mun. Imarui: 

 Vargem do Cedro, Reits 4532 (HBR). Mun. Itajai: Morro do Bau, Reits 

 (HBR, US). Mun. Palho^a: Anitapolis, i?Hi5 4536 (HBR). 



5. Wittrockia campos-portoi L. B. Smith, p. 36, fig. 89. 

 Brazil: Cultivated, L. B. Smith (US, type; HBR). 



6. Wittrockia azurea L. B. Smith, p. 36, fig. 90. 



MiNAS Gerais: Coronel Pacheco [Agua Limpa], Heringer 1536 (SP, type, 

 US neg. 4250). 



27. Hohenbergia Schult. f. 



Hohenbergia Schult. f. in R. & S. Syst. 7, pt. 2: p. Ixxi, 1251. 1830. 



Guatemala, West Indies, Venezuela. 



I. Floral bracts acuminate. 

 2. Inflorescence bipinnate with the spikes in a dense head, or rarely simple. 



I. H. littoralis 



