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The Botanical Gazette. 



[January, 



conspicuous. — 

 Yzabal, alt. 900 



Shrub 6^8 ft. high, Monte Cachirulo, Dept. 



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cit. 1^44). 



Triuris brevistylis. — About 3 in. high, aphyllous: Inflor- 



in. long, 



escence uniparous, twice furcate, peduncles ^-1 

 scmi-amplexicaul bracts with rounded lobes at base: perianth- . 

 segments with twice longcr appendagcs 3-4 lines long: styles 

 pubescent, sub-terminal, capillary, deflexed, shorter than ob- 

 tuse carpels of ovary; stigma oblique; fruit obovate, puberu- 

 lous.— Z". diaphana Miers, one-third as large, with cauline 

 leaves, sheathing entire bracts, less developed inflorescence, 

 is distinguished best by carpels elongated into terminal subu- 

 late styles. — On decayed trunks of trees, Pansamahi forcst, 

 alt. 3,800 feet, Sept. 1888, v. Turckheim (Ex Pl. cit. 1384). 

 Nkphrodium DUALE, described as new, BOT. Gaz., XV. 

 29, must be refcrred to Aspidiitm ascendcns Hew., which in 

 view of the distinctly reniform involucre of the present speci- 



tni ascendens. It 



Baltimorey Md, 



Nephrodi 

 . Jamaica, 



