36 FRULLANIA. [ HOMOTROPANTHA 
Perianthia breviuscula ovali-trigona, utroque fine angustiora, apice vix 
rostellata. Calyptra inferne 2c. crassa. 
Andrecia folio axillari sublongiora ; bracteze dense plurijugze. 
Hab. Ad arborum et fruticum ramules in terris calidis. 
Distr. Species perpaucee cognitee, neque adhuc inter se bene definite, 
regiones equatoriales, orientales praecipue, habitant; earum una (in 
ditione Amazonica unica) per terras intertropicales totas dispersa, . 
habitationum viciniam pro more diligit. 
Obs. The few species composing this group have a peculiar habit, 
from the robust tripinnate stems and numerous lateral secund perianths 
The large leaves and stipules are not unlike those of the Chonanthelve ; 
but the minute leaf-lobules—usually reflexed and appressed to the stem 
—are widely different. In the trigonous perianths it agrees with 
Trachycolea, Meteortopsis and Thyopsiella, from all of which it is 
separated by the monoicous inflorescence and by other characters. ’r. 
replicata, Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. (published afterwards in ‘Syn. Hep.’ 
as Fr. Thuillertia Mst. specific name of Schwaegrichen’s) is found all 
round the world, in countries on and near the equator; and like F’. 
squarrosa, gibba, and a few others, probably owes its wide distribution 
partly to the involuntary agency of man, from its almost invariably 
clinging to the twigs of the domesticated shrubs (such as Crescentia 
Cujete) which accompany him in his migrations. Specimens from 
Ceylon, Sumatra, ete., quite correspond to my S. American ones ; nor 
can I safely distinguish them from Javan specimens of Fr. nodulosa, 
Nees. 
26. FRULLANIA REPLICATA, Nees. 
Jung. replicata Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras, ; J. Thuilleri Schwgr. Mss., 
“Syn. Hep.” 434. 
Hab. In sylva Amazonica hic illic sparsa, habitationibus vix unquam 
remota, arborum domesticarum ramos infestans, locis Pardé; fl. 
Ramos, Bombonasa, Uaupes, ete., ripis. 
F 1-25 « 1-25-14, lob 15, ¢ dy 3 fl? 12X12; br 205 per 18x 9mm, 
32> 
Caules 3-pollicares validi, e rufo nigrescentes, arcte tripinnati, horizon- 
taliter stratificati intricative. 
Folia viridia, «tate fulva rufave dense imbricata patulo-decurva late 
cordato-ovata fere orbiculata, seepius latiora quam longa ; lobulus 
minutus, ad caulem ramosque galeatus, cucullatus vel solum 
cochleatus, oblique divaricatus, ad ramulos clavato-saccatus subrecte 
reflexus caulique contiguus 5 cellulla mediocres eequilatere, e pariete 
valde nodoso-incrassato intus 6-10- (seepius 8-) sinuatee, subconformes, 
inferiores perpaulo majores, 
Foliola imbricata foliis fere aquimagna orbiculata decurrentia, ipsa basi 
subcordata, apice emarginata sinu triangulari, dentibus acutis vel 
subapiculatis, ad axin profunde canaliculata, alis superne valde 
reflexis. 
Flores monoici crebi: ? laterales, plerique ramuligeni, pauci ad ramos 
prinarios, nulli ad caulem, assurgenti-secundi. Bractes sub 5-juge, 
infine minute equilobe, superiores sensim majores late patentes 
