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obtuso raro lunulari, segmentis conniventibus suberectisve, latioribus 
(antico basi 2—3-cell., postico 3-5-cell. lato), cellulis paulo minoribus ; 
bracteas foliis 3-4-plo majores sepe in excipulum alte connatas ; 
perianthia lineari-oblonga, ore solumdenticulata setulosave, setulis 1 vel 
2 cellulas parvas constantibus. 
Subgenus VI. CEPHALOZIELLA, Spruce, in op. cit. 
Plante pusille minutve, seepe supra muscos, vel alias hepaticas 
reptantes. Caulis pro plantula seepissime validus, cellulis corticalibus 
internis homomorphis, basi in plerisque subrhizomatosus, flagellis autem 
orbatus; rami foliost in omnibus fere postici, in perpaucis ex parte—in 
paucissimis normaliter—laterales. Folia inferiora succuba, superiora 
magis conferta et transversa, caulis latitudinem raro excedentia, perseepe 
cuneata, ad vel ultra 4 bifida, carinata, segmentis vel subcomplicatis vel 
divergentibus, integerrima subdenticulatave, raro spinulosa; cellule 
parve vel minute (diam. 4;—75™™) subquadrate. oliola (ubi adsunt) 
parva, integra bifidave, seepe in una et eadem specie nunc preesentia nunc 
obsoleta. lores 2 perseepe in ipso caule terminales, in aliis sp. cladogeni 
vel situ variabili. Bractew sat magne, tristiche, bilobze, lobis in plerisque 
denticulatis spinulosisve, laterales perseepe cum postica in cyathum alte 
connate. Perianthia plerumque angusta, acute prismatica, carinis raro 
solum 3, sepius 3, 4, vel 5 (raro etiam 6) in eadem specie, ore denticulato 
raro mutico. Capsula oblongo-globosa. Andrecia ipsius caulis, ramive 
majoris, partem sistentia, medialia apicaliave, bracteis foliis consecutivis 
haud minoribus, rarissime ad ramulum tenuem amentiformen redacta. 
12. CEPHALOZIA PYGMA, Spruce. 
Hab. Andes Peruvianos in M. Campana, ad terram umbrosam, alt. 1200. 
F -1—125™™ longa, bast 4 cell. lata; ¢ A>y—-dy; br °3; per 8x 2mm, 
Minuta fuscidula prostrata; caules 4™™ longi, vage subramosi, tenues 
opaci flexuosi parum radicellosi, flagellis nullis. 
Folia distantia, a basi plus minus obliqua v. fere transversa, subsquar- 
rose patula, plana, cuneata, profunde bifida, sinu acuto (30°-40°), 
eruribus subulatis subacutis basi 2 cell., apice 1 cell., latis, integer- 
rima; cellulz minute subparallelogramme subchlorophyllose, lepto- 
dermes. 
Foliola nulla, nisi ad involuera. 
Flores monoici: 9 ramulo brevi tristiche folioso constantes, seepe e rami 
6 facie postica orti, haud raro fasciculato-2-3ni; bracteze 3-jugee 
liber v. sepius alte coalitee, intime foliis fere 3plo longiores, ad 
dimidium solum bifid, laciniis acuminatis recurvis, subdenticulate. 
Perianthia alte emersa, magna, lineari-trigona, 4plo longiora quam lata, 
ore subconstricto setoso-denticulatia demum breviter 6-fida. 
Amenta ¢ caulis ramive apicem mediumve tenentia; bracteze foliis con- 
tinue, iisdem similes, paulo breviores latioresque, plurijuge, assur- 
genti-imbricatee suberectze conduplicato-concave, monandre; brac- 
teolis minutis subulatis adjectis, Raro advenit amentum ¢ ad 
ramulum parvum redactum, 
Var. spinuliflora 8. Folia sublatiora, lobo antico basi seepe 4 cellulas, 
postico 3 cell., lato, integerrima vel dente uno alterove obtuso armata. 
Bractee ad 4 usque connate, spinuloso-serrate, viridissimee.—In 
sylva Amazonica, ad fl. Uaupés, in Lejewnea porelloide parasitans. 
