30 FRULLANIA. -  [CHONANTHELIA 
Folia parva late ovali-cuneata breviter acute bifida, dorso gibbo radicel- 
larum penicillum gerentia, margine plano angulato, 
Flores dioici : 9 terminales digyni. Bracteze 1-2-juge foliis submajores 
suberectee ad 4 alt, bilobe, complicate, lobis acutis obtusisve 
canaliculatis, postico paulo minore, subrecurvo ; bracteola angusta 
(imperfecta solum visa). 
Amenta ¢ folio axillari breviora vel sublongiora ; bracteze 3-5-juge. 
Fr. Cuencensis Tayl., Lond. Journ. Bot. 1846, p. 406, in eadem vicinia 
lecta, differre certe videtur foliis foliolisque majoribus rotundioribus, 
margine recurvis. 
Obs. Fr. flammea, cum duabus sequentibus (Fr. decidua et Fr. Orino- 
censis) melius forsan inter Trachycoleas militaverint. 
20. FRULLANIA DECIDUA, Spruce. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in valle ke ad saxa. 
F 8x °7,°8x°6, lob 3-25 x ‘2, ¢ A, ; f'* 33x -3™™. 
Prostrata substratificata, ex atro rubella. | Caules 2-3-pollicares sub- 
simplices teneri pallidi inter se paralleli, seepe e foliis caducis fere 
denudati. 
Folia subimbricata vel dissita oblique patula late cordato-ovata 
asymmetrica, apice decurvo rotundata; lobulus subtriplo brevior, 
subobliquus, oblongus—interdum brevi-cylindraceus—galeatus basi 
tumcatus, vel perseepe solum apice cucullatus; cellule parvee rotund, 
omnes fere equimagne, paucee basin versus sensim submajores. 
Foliola dissita foliis plus duplo minora ovali-rotunda acute MASE 
dentibus acutis. 
Flores haud visi. 
Fr. flammea Tayl., colore similis, differt caule multo breviore, magis 
ramosa ; foliis solum obtusis, lobulo duplo fere latiore.—Fr. Cuencensis 
Tayl., foliolis majoribus et foliorum cellulis minutis densis in peripheria, 
magnis in centro, diversa est. 
21. FRULLANIA ORINOCENSIS, Spruce. 
Hub. Maypures fluminis Orinoco, in cortice. 
F 1:1.x ‘85, lob 3, e gy; fi °35x%°25; br 1°23 br'* “75x 253 per ox 
]:Omm , 
Prostrata rufo-sanguinea laxe intricata. Caules pollicares, validi, laxe 
subramosi. 
Folia subimbricata semicordato-ovata rotundata obtusatave ; lobulus sub 
dplo brevior seepissime evolutus ovato-subulatus lingulatusve, raro 
cucullatus, basi -cauli contiguus, superne angulo 30°—40° divergens ; 
cellule: parvee eequilatere subconformes subopacee. 
Foliola dissita foliis plus quam triplo breviora, latitudine caulem haud 
transeuntia, cuneato-oblonga, ad 4 bifida, segmentis lanceolatis 
sinuque acutis, fere planissima. 
Flores monoici: 9 terminales. Bracteze sub 4-jugee, decurvo-secunda, 
intime foliis sublongiores oblique ovato-oblongze obtuse, lobulo 
ejusdem longitudinis licet angustiore subacuminato acuto, integer- 
rim, basi autem (inter bracteam et bracteolam) lacinula dentiformi 
