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EspiRiTO Santo: Santa Teresa, Foster 291 (GH, R). 

 DiSTRiTO Federal: Ipanema, /. G. Ktihlmann (RB). 

 Sao Paulo: Caraguatatuba, Hoehne & Gehrt (GH (US neg. 3955, 3956), SP). 



Ipiranga, Liiederwaldt (SP). Sao Sebastiao, Camargo (IAN). Tatui to 



Sorocaba, Baker & Collins (GH). 

 Parana: Morretes, M. Kuhlmann (GH, SP). 41 km. from Paranagua, Foster 



453 (GH, R). Serra da Prata, 25 km. south of Paranagua, Tessmann (US). 

 Santa Catarina: Sao Francisco do Sul, Reits 3875 (HBR). Ararangua: 



Meleiro, Reits C-3S (GH, HBR). 

 Rio Grande do Sul: Sao Leopoldo, Eugenio 446 (NY) ; 1897 (GH). 



2. Ananas fritzmuelleri Camargo, Bol. Teen. Inst. Agron. Norte, Para No. 1 : 



16, figs. 2, 3. 1943. Figure 127. 

 Ananas sylvestris Fritz Mueller, Bericht. Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. 14 : 4. 



1896. In part, not as to Bromelia sylvestris Veil. 1825. 

 Ananas bracteatus var. albus L. B. Smith, Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard 7 : 76. 



1939- 

 Brazil: Telles (GH, SP). 

 Sao Paulo: Itapecerica, Camargo (GH) ; Hoehne & Gehrt (GH, type of 



Ananas bracteatus var. albus L. B. Smith; SP). 

 Parana: Dusen 15469 (S). 

 Santa Catarina: Brusque, Reits 3957 (HBR, US); 4011 (HBR). Itajai, 



Reits 4157 (HBR). Mun. Ararangua: Sombrio, Reits C-1344 (HBR). 



3. Ananas comosus (L.) Merrill, Interpr. Rumph. Amb. 133. 1917. 



Bromelia ananas L. Sp. PI. 285. 1753. 



Bromelia comosa L. Herb. Amboin. 21. 1754; Amoen. Acad. 4: 130. 1759. 



Ananas sativus Schult. in R. & S. Syst. 7, pt. 2 : 1283. 1830. 



Ananassa sativa Lindl. ex Spach, Hist. Veg. 12 : 400. 1846. 



Ananas ananas Voss, Vilm. Blumeng. ed. 3. i : 964. 1895. 

 Brazil: Cultivated, Baker & Collins (GH) ; Reits 36s4-b (HBR). 

 Baia: Machado Portella, eastern Baia, Luetzelburg (! Mez). Serra de Sao 



Jose, Luetzelburg ( ! Mez). 

 Mato Grosso: Cuiaba, Lindman A-23S1 (S). 



4. Ananas erecdfolius L. B. Smith, Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard 7 : 78, />/. i. 



1939- 

 Ananas sp. Ducke, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 5 : 81. 1930. 

 Brazil: Cultivated, Baker & Collins 9 (GH) ; Foster 11 14 (GH). 

 Amazonas or Para: Amazon Basin, Ducke (GH, type, US neg. 3953). 

 Para: Belterra, Fires 4072 (IAN, US). Santarem, Carr (F) ; Ginsbergcr & 

 Zerny 393 (F). 



5. Ananas ananassoides (Baker) L. B. Smith, Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard 



7 : 79, pl 2. 1939. 

 I. Apex of the scape weak and easily broken; syncarp many-flowered, up to 



15 cm. long Var. a. ananassoides 



I. Apex of the scape tough; syncarp few-flowered, only about 4 cm. long. 



Var. b. nanus 

 5a. Ananas ananassoides var. ananassoides. Figure 128. 



Acanthostachys ananassoides Baker, Handb. Bromel. 25. 1889. 

 Ananas microstachys Lindm. Svensk. Akad. Handl. 24 : no. 8 : 39 pi. 7, 

 figs. 20-23. 1891. 



