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MR. RICHARD SPRUCE’S HEPATICE ELLIOTTIANA, 333 
Subordo I. JUNGERMANNIACE. 
Tribus 1. JUBULEZ. 
Genus 1. Frunvanta, Raddi. 
Four species have been recorded from the French Antilles ; 
and of these only one appears in Mr. Elliott’s collections. This 
is F. atrata, a not uncommon plant in the mountains of nearly 
the whole of tropical America. In the Andes I have seen it 
growing in huge masses half-a-yard long. 
1. F. (§ Cnonanruerta) arretina, Tayl. in Syn. Hep. p. 413. 
St. Vincent, Richmond Peak (215). Dominica, River Douce 
Valley (704), Shawford Estate (898). 
2. F. ($ Merroriorsts) arrata, ees, in Syn. Hep. p. 463.-— 
Dominica, Morne Trois Pitons (491), Morne Diablotin (648, 
688). Var.— St. Vincent, Richmoud Peak (215). Pendulous 
from trees. 
3. EF. (§ Tuyopste.ta) spATULIFLORA, Spruce,n.sp. (Tab. XX. 
figs. 1-4.) 
Monoica, pusilla, prostrata, rufo-badia, caule pollicari vage 
sat ramoso. olia fragilia, subplana, subdivergentia, inferiora 
contigua, ramia imbricata, oblique subsemivvata, rotundata, raro 
abrupte subacuta; cellul@ preminute, subpellucide, equaliter 
incrassate, trigonis vix ullis; Jobudus folio triplo fere brevior, 
cauli parallelus et subcontiguus, breviter conico-cylindricus, 
obtusus. Foliola foliis plus duplo breviora, pallida, tenera, 
appressa, oblonga, plana, ultra + fissa, segmentis obtusis. Flores 
2 in caule et ramis terminales; bractee foliis dimidio longiores, 
profunde complicato-bilobe, lobo antico oblique oblongo-rotun- 
dato, postico subminore et angustiore, lanceolato; bracteola 
magna, cuneato-obovata, ad 3 biloba, complicato-carinata, lobis 
lanceolatis conniventibus (arte expansis divergentibus). Per:- 
anthia emersa, compresso-trigona, spatulata, supra basin obconicam 
fere quadrata, apice lato retuso vel subobcordato brevirostria. 
Andrecia brevia, paucijuga.— Folia ‘4 x *8—"35, lobulus .15, celiule 
=l;; foliola 18X12; bractee (lobus) ‘6 x ‘35, bracteola *8 x °65 ; 
perianthia 1°05 X°8 mm, 
Hab. Ad cortices in situ Laudat, ins. Dominica (Ettiort, 
1892).—Florescentia monoica et stipulis planis, 
no. 857, a. 
precipuetamen forma perianthii singular, a plerisque Thyopsiellis 
distat. oe 
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