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majusculo. Folia floralia caulinis vix majora, laxe amplectentia, 

 lobulo magno, lanceolato-obtuso, breviter soluto ; amphig. florale 

 magnum linguaeforme ad | bifidum, rima angusta lobulisque 

 acutis vel obtusis. Androecia in caule primario lateralia, magna, 

 bracteis 8-jugis laxe dispositis, ad medium bifidis lobi aequales 

 ovato-acuti. 



Proxima Pycnolejeunece longidenti et curvatilohce, Steph. (Hed- 

 wigia, 1889, p. 260). 



12. Lophocolea erectifolia, Steph., sp. n. (PL XXVII. 

 figs. 12-15.) 



Dioica, flavo-virens, laxe caespitosa, majuscula. Caulis 2-4 cm. 

 longus, crassus, vage pauciramosus, ramis sterilibus simplicibus 

 elongatis procumbentibus, fertilibus brevibus adscendentibus. 

 Folia opposita, postice stipulis coalita, basi antica libera, conferta, 

 basi ad dimidium imbricata, apice libera, late ovato-triangularia, 

 apice plus duplo angustiora, profunde emarginato-bideatata, 

 dentibus inaequalibus (supero majore) acutis, e basi erecta de- 

 curvula, marginibus convolutinis, juniora inagis adscendentia, 



fere erecto-accumbentia. Cellulae 0*025 mm., aequales, angulis 

 parum incrassatis. Amphig. foliis vix duplo breviora, circum- 

 scriptione reniformi, a caule oblique patula, ad medium grosse 

 quadrifida, laciniis utroque latere per paria approxiinatis foliisque 

 alte connatis. Flores feminei in ramulis brevibus terminales 

 utraque latere innovati ; bracteae quadrijugae, interiores foliis 

 majores apice longius bidentatae, margiae postico grosse quadri- 

 dentatae, cum bracteola quadridentata, latissime coalita). Peri- 

 anthia parum emersa, ore breviter trilobata, lobis aliisque grosse 

 laciniatis, laciniis lanceolatis integris. Androecia in medio caulis, 

 bracteis confertis 4-6-jugis, foliis multo minoribus erecto-decurvis, 

 antice lobulo ovato inflato longe deutato instructis. 



LophocoJece triangulifolice (qua? sequitur) peraffinis ; haec differt 

 colore, foliis plano-dibtichis, apice multomagis aagustatis, cellulis 

 haud incrassatis stipulisque profundius fissis, setaceo-laciniatis. 



13. Lophocolea filicicola, Steph., sp. n. (PI. XXVII. 



fig. 10.) 



Sterilis, tenera, ^re^arie crescent, flavo-virens. Caulis 6-8 cm. 

 longus, vage pauciramosus, in cortice arete repens (in trunco 

 Filicum). Folia alternantia, per paria] tamen approximata 

 parum imbricata, recte a caule patentia, plano-disticha, ovato- 

 rectangularia, basi antica libera, postice amphigastriis uno vel 

 utroque latere coalita, apice parum angustata, lunatim excisa, 



