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ineequilobee complicate, intime lobo lato subacuto subintegerrimo, 
lobulo duplo minore bracteolaeeque liberze segmentis acuminatis 
laciniatis. 
Perianthia vix emersa ovalia trigona erostria, angulis apicem versus 
oreque scaberula. Calyptra perianthio vix duplo brevior obovato- 
pyriformis 2 cell. crassa, demum apice ineequaliter bivalvis, Capsula 
in pedicello brevi vix emersa, rufa spherica profunde 4-fida, valvis 
recurvis. Elateres elongati angustiusculi, spiram tenuem laxe 
torquatam includentes, 
Andreecia ramigena subglobosa vel late ovoidea, folio axillari: longiora ; 
bractew plerumque plurijuge confertissime. 
Ad fl. Uaupés adest forma foliolis valde confertis reniformibus, 
bractearum lobulis bracteolisque margine undulato-crispis subinteg- 
errimis. 
Obs. The female branchlets are decidedly lateral, chiefly on the 
secondary branches, less frequently on the primary, never on the stem. 
They often alternate—springing first from one side of the branch, then 
from the other,—but as they all arch upwards, they seem, at first sight, 
to be seriate along the upper face of the branch. 
The leaf covering the base of each branch (leafy or floriferous) is wider 
than the rest, and more symmetrical, while the lobule is frequently 
evolute and the interlobule is enlarged (oblong, acute) and subtends the 
underside of the branch.—This interlobular process is usually quite 
wanting to normal stem-leaves. 
The different form of the cauline and ramuline lobules seems to 
almost break down the difference between F’, replicata and the K. 
Indian F’, nodulosa Nees. 
Suscenus IV.—METEORIOPSIS, S. 
Plante elatz stratificatee rufescentes vel fere atre. Caules pro more 
penduli longissimi laxe pinnati bipinnatique, ramis breviusculis, 
apice ad Meteorii (generis Muscorum) instar indefinite crescentes. 
Folia dissitiuscula, basi profunde cordata convolutivo-amplexantia, sub- 
triangularia pro more acuminata integerrima opaca ; lobulus 3-8plo 
brevior cauli appressus (erectus) tenuis cylindricus, rarius evolutus ; 
cellule parvee seepe subelongate, pariete incrassato. 
Foliola foliis subduplo breviora anguste gblonga bifida, alis interdum 
recurvis, Margine ipso autem plano. 
Flores dioici: @ in ramulo brevissimo insidentes, quasi-laterales. 
Bractez 3-4-juge, intime foliis plerumque sat longiores, profunde 
bifidee complicatse inzequilobze, lobis omnibus pro more acuminatis 
serratis laciniatisve, raro subintegerrimis ; bracteola libera segmentis 
subulatis. 
Perianthia trigona longirostria leyvia. Calyptra inferne 4 c. crassa. 
Andreecia vel ramulo folium axillare subexcedente constantia vel rarius 
in ramo terminalia, 
Hab. Ad arborum ramos et.folia necnon ad saxa in sylvis montium 
tropicalium opacis, ad crinis pulcherrimi instar longe pendula, muscis 
