TRACHYCOLEA | FRULLANIA. 55 
25, FRULLANIA HIRTIFLORA, Spruce. 
Hab. Banos, ad pedem montis Tunguragua, alt. 1800", in imis truncis et 
saxis. 
F ‘9x °6, lob 3-35, ¢ Js; f 5x °3; br 1:25; per 2°5 x 1:25™™, 
Tenella pallide viridis. Caules pollicares prostrati implexi vage vel 
subpinnatim bis terve divisi. 
Folia tenera subimbricata convexa obovato-oblonga rotundata, valde 
inequilatera, basi antica semicordata caulem late transeuntia ; 
lobulus 3plo fere brevior cylindraceo-galeatus, basi cauli con- 
tiguus, subobliquus ; cellule parve pallidze opacule, omnes fere 
eequimagne. 
Foliola subdistantia foliis fere duplo breviora cuneata, ad 1-3 acute 
bifida, laciniis acutis, medio margine utrinque angulato-1—2-dentata, 
radicellis rubris stellato-patulis. 
Flores dioici: @ terminales. Bractez intime foliis majores, brevissime 
connate, lobo superne recurvo rotundato integerrimo, lobulo 
acuminato repando basi l-laciniato; bracteola bifida, segmentis 
acuminatis repandis v. subincisis, basi utrinque seepe 1-laciniata. 
Perianthia alta emersa obovata compresso-trigona ex apice retuso longe 
rostellata, facie tam antica quam postica obtuse 4-plicata-striatave, 
papillis longis (villisve) seepe hamatis ubique (ad liras preecipue) 
hirsuta, demum apice trifida. Villi 8-cellulas longi, cellulam 
unicam, vel basin versus 2- (rara 3-) cellulas lati. 
Fr. Lindbergiana, G.! Mex. Leverm. p. 240, in adnot.,a cl. G. A. 
Lindberg in Brasilia australi lecta, differt foliis foliolisque latioribus sub- 
orbiculatis, lobulo multo majore (=+-% folii, nec solum 4 ac in nostra) ; 
inv olucris serrulatis spinulosisve ; et perianthio ovali-triquetro esulcato, 
quamvis tam hirto quam Fr. hirtiflore.—F. tuberculata L. et L. cum 
nostra foliolis parvis cuneatis angulato-dentatis fere congruit, distincta 
tamen foliis parum inzequilateris, oblongis nec obovatis, cellulis basalibus 
magnis in orbem dispositis, et perianthiis esulcatis minus papillosis. 
Suscenvus II].—HOMOTROPANTAA, S. 
Plante robustz speciose tripinnatz stratificatie. 
Folia conferta patulo-decurva, siccando devoluta, cordato-suborbiculata, 
lobulo minuto concheformi, cucullato vel szpius clavato-saccato, 
cauli contiguo, in plurimis reflexo ; cellule mediocres intus 6- 
sinuatee. 
Foliola conferta foliis vix minora orbiculata yel subreniformia emargi- 
nata, raro integra, 
Flores monoici creberrimi, ad ramos ramulosque laterales, fceminei 
assurgenti-secundi. Bracteze 9 5-jugz, intimze foliis sat’ majores, 
lobis latis acutis subintegerrimis, lobulis bracteoleeque libere seg- 
mentis acuminatis plerumque laciniatis, 
