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Lophocolea longifulia St. — Uioica, inter luuscos 

 cresceos, pallide-vlreiis. Caulis 2—8 cm longus, in speci- 

 mine unico solum innovato-ramosus ceterum simplex. Folia 

 heteroformia, inferiora contigua minora, piano disticha, ligu- 

 lata late breviterque emarginata vel incisa, lobulis inaequa- 

 libus obtusis vel rotundatis; superiora reraotiuscula sensim 

 majora, pro more plus duplo longiora quam lata, fere linearia, 

 Lreviter lunatlni emarginata , lobis acutis margine ventral! 



recurvo. Cell. 0,025 ram (basi 0,020 : 0,035 mm) trigonis 

 parvis, Ampli. libera, patula, caul! aequilata basi cuneata, 

 profunde emarginata, laciniis divaricatia, extus unidentatia. 

 Periantkia terminalia, semper innovata, turbinata ad ^/s tri- 

 fida , laeiniia apico profunde bifidis , raarginibus remote 

 grosscque spinosis, ala nulla; folia for alia intima objonga 

 ad ^/4 acute incisa, lobis inaequalilms obtusis; amph. invol. 

 intimum obovatum, extus angulatum ad ^/a obtuse incisum, 

 laciniis longe acuminatis hamatis. 



Androecia ignota. 



Bourhon. leg. Rodriguez. 



Lophocolea longispica St. — Dioica , raediocris, 

 pallida, rauscis irrcpens. Caidls 3 — 4 cm longus, vage ra- 

 raosus. Folia alterna, piano- disticha, subrecte a caule 

 patentia, ovata, lunatim excisa, laciniis porrectis, acuminatis 

 vel solum acutis. CeUidae 0,025 ram basi parum majores, 

 incrassatio angulosa nulla. Amph. cauli aequilata, patula, 

 uno latere folio coalita, ad ■^/4 bifida, laciniis lanceolatis 

 divaricatis, utroque margine interne spina singula instructa, 

 Perianfhia terminalia innovatione singula suffulta, pro planta 

 maxima, ad % triloba, lobis ad ^/a bitidis, margine grosse 

 spinosis, ala nulla; folia floralia intima late ovata, ad ^/^ 

 anguste excisa, margine paucispinosa; amph, florale miixnnm 



foliis suis aequimagnum, ad ^/2 bifiduni, utroque latere jsplna 



breviore munituiu. Androecia longispica^ terminalia dein 

 vegetativa, bracteis 9 — 12 jugis hamato decurvis, apice exciso- 

 bidentatis, antice lobulo turgido exciso auctis. 



Mascarenae Insidae, leg. Rodriguez. 



Organa vegetativa L. borhonicam in meraoriam revocant; 

 periauthio tamen valde diversa est. 



Lophocolea rub esc ens St. — Monoica, major, Havo- 

 virens^ apicibus rubescentibus. Caulis 3 — 4 cm longus, mul- 

 tiramosus, repens, inter rauscos adscendens vel dense caespi- 

 tosus. Folia opposita , plano-disticha, dense imbricata, 

 ovato-triangularia, margine ventrali parum arcuata, dorsali 

 substricta, apice triplo angustiora, lunatim -emarginata, 

 laciniis inaequalibus acutis, basi dorsali libera ventre amphi- 



