378 BAZZANIA. 
Amenta ¢ postica, foliolo sublongiore suffulta, iIncurva crassa ovato- 
oblonga trigona; bracteze confertissimee 5—8-jugee orbiculate valde 
concave emarginate retuseve, diandrie; bracteolee subconformes, 
integree vel apice rotundato erosule. 
Var. macrophylla S. Folia elongata (3:°0x 1:8™™). Bracteze pro ratione 
breviores, ovato-orbiculatee. Perianthia maxima (4'0 x 1:0™™),—Ad 
fluvium Napo legit JAMESON. 
Var. submutica 8. Folia apice triangulari-truncata, vel bis retusula, vel 
denique obsolete 3—4-angulato-dentata. Foliola magna (1°65 x 
1°65™™"), auriculis baseos faleatis seepe imbricatis. Perianthia 
maxima (4°0 x 1°5™™),—In sylva Canelos (8. 8.) 
Obs. Folia basi postica crispata plerumque integerrima, rarius dente 
brevi uno alterove armata.— Foliola B. Vincentine in exemplaribus 
meipso lectse, et quoque in Antillanis a cl. Husnor basi distincte 
cordata; in ‘Spec. Hepat.’ descriptione “e basi cordata amplexic- 
auli” dicta sunt, quod tamen figurze tabulze citatze minime monstrant. 
14. BazzANIA ROBUSTA, Spruce. 
Hab. Ad fluvios Negro, Uaupés et Casiquiart, in sylvis preecipue humili- 
oribus, super truncos vetustos rupesque necnon ad arbuscularum 
ramulos. 
F 2°5 x 1:25 (apice x *35-"4); c. mediw 35, laterales 35; f ‘9x°7, °9x°85; 
br’2'0s per 3'S xX 0'9™™. 
Robusta rigida rufescens dense stratificata. Caules 4-pollicares, iteratim 
dichotomi, crebre flagelliferi ; rami siccando uncinati, 
Folia arctissime imbricata, alterna vel (rarius) subopposita, decurvo- 
secunda, falcata, valde oblique cordato-lingulata, apice angustius- 
culo truncato argute tridentata, dente medio paulo majore—raro 
4-dentata, dente quarto infra-apicali—sinubus rotundatis, dentibus 
acutissimis interdum denticulatis, basi anticaé gibba caulem exacte 
obtegentia, postica subampliata parum recurvo-crispula et eroso- 
denticulata; cellule pellucidz intus 6-sinuate, pariete flavido ad 
angulos valde incrassato, medize majuscule Jateralibus sensim 
minoribus fere concolores. Folium dichotomiale integrum, e cordato- 
ovata basi sensim acuminatum. Folia flagelloram minuta ovata, 
apice 2~3-dentata, basi externa raro radicellifera, 
Foliola triplo fere breviora, imbricata, oblongo-ovatove-orbiculata, toto 
margine crenulato-repanda-erosulave, raro apice magis distincte 
tricrenata, basi cordata, auriculis subrotundis conniventibus margine 
sinuato-crispulis integerrimis. 
Flores dioici. Bracteee 9 subappressee, intima foliis subbreviores ovato- 
lanceolatee acuminate, apice in cilia erecta dissolute, concavee 
tenerrime. 
Perianthia foliis dimidio longiora, tenuia, plus 4-plo longiora quam lata, 
ovato-subulata, a basi fere trigono-plicata, ore constricto ciliis longis 
sub 15 in penicillum congestis ornata. Calyptra duplo brevior 
cylindrico-oblonga, basi quasi-stipitata ibidemque pistillidiis ster- 
ilibus cireumdata. Capsula calyptra duplo brevior, oblonga, sub- 
cylindrica. Elateres tenues subobtusi dispiri, sporis minutis sub- 
duplo angustiores. 
