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New York, NY, The New York Botanical Garden, 1967. 8vo (25.3 x 17.7 cm). 8vo. 54 pp.; two groups of figures (on one full page). Original printed wrappers. = Written by the American botanist Lyman Bradford Smith (1904-1997). "He studied botany during the 1920s at Harvard University and received his PhD from Harvard in 1930. Between 1928 and 1929, he worked for the first time in Brazil. Most of his life's work came to involve the taxonomy of the flowering plants of South America, in particular the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). Smith worked on the Bromeliaceae for the North American Flora published by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton" (Wikipedia). Published in the Garden's Memoirs, 14(3), together with two other parts of the series, viz. the Rutaceae (by R. S. Cowan; 14 pp.), and the Orchidaceae (by C. Schweinfurth; 146 pp.). Spine foot cover frayed, otherwise a very good, clean copy.