METEORIOPSIS | FRULLANIA. 3 
Hab. In Andium Quitensium sylvis montanis, supra montes Tunguragua 
et Guayrapata precipue, alt. circiter 3000™. ex arborum ramis pendula; 
in planitie nusquam vidi ; ad flumina Amazonum et Orinoco tamen 
in ‘Syn. Hep, (per errorem ?) indicata est. Caterum, in montibus 
totius fere Americe tropic haud raro ocurrit. 
F 12x°9, lob -3, ¢ d-; ff °75x°35, “75x35 br 25-30; per 
Zo x foe, 
Caules longissimi, pedales vel etiam bipedales, capilliformes, laxe 
symmetrice pinnati et bipinnati, in fasces magnos nigrescentes 
pendulos coacervati. 
Folia subimbricata dissitave e rubro atra opaca cauli circumvoluta late 
cordato-ovata acuminulata apiculatave acuta integerrima interdum 
repandula; lobulus 4plo brevior cauli contiguus parallelusque 
tenui-cylindricus ; cellule parvee, mediz subelongate, ceeterze sub- 
quilaterze, pariete incrassato. 
Foliola dimidio folio longiora ovali-lanceolata (ex alis recurvis lineari- 
oblonga videntur) breviter bifida, sinu tenui, segmentis acutis margine 
recurvis. 
Flores dioici: @ in ramulo valde abbreviato terminales, quasi laterales. 
Bractew 3—4-juge, extime parvee, intime foliis caulinis 2plo et ultra 
longiores, basi erectse, apice plus minus squarroso-recurve liber 
subserratee complicato-bilobe, lobis oblique lanceolatis acuminatis, 
lobulis bracteoleque complicate laciniis apice suvuiatis.  Inira 
florem pro more adveniunt folia 1-3-juga minuta normaliter saccato- 
lobulata. 
Perianthia vix emersa nigra anguste ovato-fusiformia trigona in rostellum 
longum subsensim attenuata. Calyptra duplo brevior, brevi- 
pyriformis albida, infra medium 4 ¢. crassa, apice demum ineequaliter 
4-valvis. Pedicelius perianthio vix longior, infra perianthii apicem 
rima laterali emergens, albiaus opacus, cellulis angustis conformi- 
bus conflatus. Capsula globosa rufo-badia, profunde 4-valvis, cellulis 
bistratis, exterioribus latioribus intus nodosis, interioribus fibra 
spirali carentibus ; elateres capsula vix duplo breviores, valvularum 
dimidio supero adfixi, late unispiri, demum (capsula evacuata) 
devexi. Spore magne elateribus plus duplo latiores angulatz 
rufo-tuberculose. 
Plante mascule tenuiores. Andreecia ramulo minuto constantia, oblongo- 
globosa subcompressa folium axillare paulo excedentia; bractew 
3—juge. 
Obs. The 9 flowers are secondary branches of the distantly bipinnate 
stem, so much shortened that all the leaves on them are (mostly) to 
be accounted bracts. 
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Hab. in monte Pichincha, ubi plantas 9 et ¢ legit beat. JAmEson; 
ipse in montibus Tunguragua et Guayrapata sterilem solum legi, 
too, lob 5x15, ¢ g@—iss J 13x85 br 15; per Bax -75, 
rostellum °35™™. 
Caules penduli pedales debiles flexuosi, laxe et fere simpliciter pinnati, 
ramulis perraris, (cum foliis) sanguineo-rubentes, apicibus novellis 
flavidi. 
