24 FRULLANIA. [cHONANTHELIA 
Tenella seepe pallida pellucidaque vel flavida, rarius e viridi olivacea 
rufulave, strato tenui effusa. Caules 1-38-pollicares pinnatim 
decompositi, ramis pro m. breviusculis. 
Folia plus minus imbricata—raro ad 4 lat usque—subplana apice 
decurvula, late oblique semicordato- oblonga rotundata, caulina fere 
orbiculata ; lobulus=lobi 3, apice uncinato- cucullatus vel anguste 
galeatus (probosciformis) deorsum in laminam latiorem acinaciformi- 
oblongam, margine interno (i.e. plica) cauli parallelo concavo vel 
fere recto, externo rotundato, sinuato-repandam, basi ampliata 
rotundata lobi marginem sat longe transeuntem protractus, vix 
unquam (nisi ad ramos floriferos) evolutus ; cellulee parvee, inferiores 
submajores, subeequilateree subpellucidee. 
Foliola subcontigua dimidium folium  excedentia planiuscula late 
orbiculati. ad vel ultra 3 bifida, sinu lato subobtuso, segmentis 
patulis subacutis raro subapiculatis, seepe inaequilongis, sinuato- 
repanda, basi breviter cordata. 
aes monoici; @ in ramo previ, raro longiore, terminales, _Bractese 
3- (4-) jugee, intimee foliis caulinis subsequales, in excipulum late 
obpyramidatum, ore patulum, alte (ad }#) connatze, lobis late ovato- 
triangularibus perabrupte subacutis, lobulis subminoribus acutis, 
externe spina auctis, subrecurvo-canaliculatis ; bracteola oblonga 
apice breviter bifida, segmentis acutis margine recurvis. Bracteze 
exteriores subminores, minus alte connate, forma simili ; bracteole 
anguste oblongie, apice erecte bidentule. 
Perianthia alte emersa anguste oblonga, ovatove-oblonga, rotundato- 
truncata brevirostria alte 4- carinata, facie antica 2-(raro 3-4-) 
earinulata. Calyptra perianthio plus duplo brevior globoso-pyri- 
formis, basi tubulari 6 cell., infra medium 3-4 cell. crassa, superne 
sensim attenuata, demum ab apice profunde bivalvis. 
Amenta ¢ ad caulem et ramos axillaria, seepe a fl. 9 haud remota, 
folio subbreviora oblongo-globosa ; bracteze 3-5-juge mediocres 
subsequilobee. 
Ad Tarapoto advenit forma condensata, foliis confertis subminoribus. 
Ad Chapaja altera forma flayida laxifolia, scepe fere plumeformi-pinnata, 
foliis iis ’r. Riojanetirensis vix minoribus, bene distincta autem lobulo 
inferne valde dilatato apice angustius cucullato-uncinato ; praecipueque 
foliolis minoribus multo magis distincte bifidis. Planta Maypurensis est 
sordide viridis, bracteasque fl. 9 habet seepe plurijugas, vel saltem folia 
omnia ad ramos foemineos lobulis evolutis instructa. 
Ab hae specie certe distat I’r. arietina, 'Tayl., florescentia paroica (i.e. 
floribus ¢ hypogynis) ; foliis subminoribus ‘angustioribusque, lobulo 
minore, appendivalo: angustiore quam galea (latiore in Fr, tenera) ; 
foliolis breviter (ad 3-4 alt. solum—nee ultra 1) bifidis ; bracteis fere 
constanter serratis,—F'r. Riojaneirensis, Raddi, perfecte diversa est statura 
submajore, preesertim foliolis magnis breviter em: einatis move omnino 
integnis. Descriptio tamen hujusce speciei in “ Synopsi Hepat.” pro- 
babiliter ex P. ad Fr. tenerwm spectat, saltem quoad “ amphigastri a foliis 
duplo minora,” qualiain I’r, Riojaneirensi vera nunquam vidi. Specimina 
a cl. G. A. Lindberg in Brasilia australiore lecta, a Gottscheo ipso ad 
Vr. Riojaneirensem relata, cum meis sub eodem nomine supradeseriptis ad 
amussim congruunt. 
