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21. Floral bracts acute or apiculate. 

 22. Leaves and scape-bracts spotted with red; sepals 8 mm. long, 

 about half connate; petals appendaged near the middle; in- 

 florescence flocculose. (Fig. 107.) 79. Ae. maculata 



22. Leaves and scape-bracts concolorous; sepals 12 mm. long, 

 connate for 2 mm. ; petals appendaged at the base ; inflores- 

 cence appressed-lepidote. (Fig. 108.) 



80. Ae. chlorophylla 



Subgenus Lamprococcus (Beer) Benth. 



1. Aecbmea marmorata (Lem.) Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3:310, pi. 66. 



1892, 

 Billbergia marmorata Lem. 111. Hortic. 2: pi. 48. 1855. 

 Billbcrgia vittata sensu Baker, Handb. Bromel. 78. 1889. In part, not 



Brongn. 

 Quesnelia effusa Lindm. Svensk. Akad. Handl. 24 : no. 8 : 26, pi. 4, figs. 1-6. 



1891. 

 Billbergia speciosa sensu Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. 13, Beibl. 29: 11. i8gi. 

 EspiRiTO Santo: Santa Teresa, Foster 248 (GH). 



DiSTRiTO Federal: Cultivated, Ule 4692 in part (R). Corcovado, Glasiou 8983 

 (P, US). Morro do Archer, Tijuca, Brade et al. 1549 (RB, US). Morro 

 Queimado, Brade 11 272 (R). Rio de Janeiro, /. G. Kuhlmann (RB, US). 

 Sao Cristovao, Glasiou 12233 (F, P) ; 16429 (P) ; Lindman A-23 (S). 

 Tijuca, Smith & Brade 2241 (GH). 

 Sao Paulo: Rio Buturoca, Santos, Mosen 3491 (S, type of Quesnelia effusa 

 Lindm.). Cubatao, Santos, Gehrt (GH, SP). 



2. Aechmea brachycaulis Baker, Handb. Bromel. 53. 1889. 



Ronnbergia marantoides L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 95 : 43, pi. 11, 

 figs. 1-3. 1 93 1. 

 Brazil: Cultivated, impublished plate by E. Morren (K, type). 

 BAfA: Cultivated, Strauss (B, F neg. 11308). Agua Preta, Foster 77 (GH). 

 Rio Grungogi, Curran 142 (US, type of Ronnbergia marantoides L. B. 

 Smith). 



3. Aechmea corymbosa (Mart, ex Schult.) Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3: 



316. 1892. 

 Billbergia corymbosa Mart, ex Schult. in R. & S. Syst. 7, pt. 2 : 1268. 1830. 

 Amazonas: Esperanga, Fires & Black 915 (IAN). Rio Dimiti, upper Rio 

 Negro basin, Schultes & Lopez 10008 (US). Tabatinga, near Colombian 

 boundary. Fires & Black 1069 (IAN). 

 Also: Colombia, PeriJ. 



4. Aechmea brevicollis L. B. Smith, Contr. Gray Herb. 154:32, pi. 3, 



figs. I, 2. 1945. 



Amazonas: Cocui to Rio Igana on Rio Negro, Schultes & Lopez 9538 (US). 

 Rio Igana, Tunui, Black 48-2601 (IAN); Fires 766 (IAN). Ipanore to 

 Rio Negro on Rio Vaupes, Schultes & Fires 9154-A (US). Ira-Igarape to 

 Igarape Abiii, Rio Taraira, Schultes & Lopez 10187 (IAN). 



Also: Colombia, Venezuela. 



