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DiSTRiTO Federal: Rio de Janeiro, Glaziou 15672 (GH, P). Sao Cristovao, 

 Glasiou 16420 (F). 



35b. Aechmea ramosa var. {estiva L. B. Smith, p. 18. 



EspiRiTO Santo: Mun. CoUatina: Linhares, Foster 770 (GH, type, US neg. 

 4280), 



36. Aechmea tocantina Baker, Handb. Bromel. 39. 1889. 

 GoiAs: Rio Tocantins, Weddell 2365 (P, type, GH neg. 2365). 

 Mato Grosso: Diamantino, Lindman A-3425 (S). 



Also : Bolivia. 



37. Aechmea araneosa L. B. Smith, Arquiv. Bot. Estado Sao Paulo nov. ser. 



1 : 53, pl. 64. 1941- 

 EspfRiTO Santo: Santa Teresa, Foster 241 (GH, type; R) ; 836 (GH, US). 



38. Aechmea chantinii (Carr.) Baker, Handb. Bromel. 49. 1889. 



Billbergia chantinii Carr. Rev. Hortic. 50: 112, fig, 22. 1878; 52:272, 

 f'ds- 54-56. 1880. 

 Amazonas : Described from cultivation. 



The first publication of Aechmea chantinii was based on sterile material and 

 consequently noted only the handsomely cross-banded leaves. The second in- 

 cluded flowering material and gave figures of the inflorescence. From these is 

 indicated a species with lax spikes and flowers in more than two ranks as shown 

 in the foregoing key. 



However, there is material now in cultivation purporting to be Ae. chantinii 

 but with dense spikes and two-ranked flowers. The floral bracts and winged 

 rhachis form pouches around the flowers, a character not easily verified in the 

 second publication of Ae. chantinii. 



The present plant has a long history of cultivation and can not be identified 

 with any other species. If the two have a common ancestry, then the type of 

 Ae. chantinii may have been a depauperate or injured individual or even a 

 hybrid. In that case the present material is more typical in a genetical sense 

 than is the taxonomic type. 



39. Aechmea fosteriana L. B. Smith, Arquiv. Bot. Estado Sao Paulo nov. 



ser. 1 : 54, pl. 67. 1941. 

 EspiRiTO Santo: Vitoria, Foster 177 (GH, type; R) ; 878 (GH, US). 



40. Aechmea schultesiana Mez in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, pt. 3 : 334. 1892. 



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

 Not Aechmea paniculata R. & P. 1802. 



Aechmea friedrichsthalii Mez & Donn.-Smith, Bot. Gaz. 19:263. 1894. 



Aechmea inermis Mez, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 4:620. 1904. 

 Amazonas: Rio Japura, Martins (M, type, F neg. 8637). 

 Also : Costa Rica to Venezuela and Peru. 



Subgenus Hoplophytum (Beer) Mez 



41. Aechmea macrochlamys L. B. Smith, Arquiv. Bot. Estado Sao Paulo nov. 



ser. 1 : 54, pl. 68. 1941. 

 EspiRiTO Santo: Santa Teresa, Foster 244 (GH, type; US) ; 837 (GH, US). 



42. Aechmea Candida E. Morr. ex Baker, Handb. Bromel. 41. 1889. 

 Brazil: Cultivated, Liege (LG) ; Strauss (B, F neg. 11309). Unpublished 



plate, E. Morren (K, type). 



