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an artificial conspectus, to treat of the pouch-fruited species as a family 
apart.—The term “ Geocalycee,” applied to these plants by Nees and 
ottsche, does not always correctly express their habit; for not all bury 
their pouches in the earth: Tylimanthus hangs them among adjacent 
mosses, and on the Amazon the pouches of Kantia are often buried in the 
decaying wood of the prostrate trunks on which some of the species love 
to grow. 
CONSPECTUS GENERUM. 
A. Perianthium normale, erectwm. 
a. Per. ab involucro liberum. 
* Per. constanter trigonum, macrostomum. Bractee g monandre. 
+ Acrocarpice: fl. 2 in caule ramove (raro abbreviate) terminales. 
21. LopHocotea. Caulis prostratus eequifoliatus, ramis prostratis vel 
assurgentibus. F. decurvula convexa, apice varia, sepius bifidula 
vel truncato-biapiculata, raro integra. * bifida vel plurifida. Per. 
pro m. oblongo-linearive-prismaticum, seepe trialatum, raro solum 
obtuse trigonum, ore trilabiatum, labiis bifidis seepe laciniatis. 
22. CLASMATOCOLEA. Pusilla, fragilis. Caulis brevis densifolius apice 
florifer, basi radicante ramos tenues arcuantes, folia parva dissita 
obcordato-cuneata gerentes, proferens. F. caulina assurgentia con- 
cava obovata rotundata retusave. Per. fragillimum obovatum, obscure 
angulatum, ore hiante 2—4-fidum. 
tt Cladocarpice : fl. 2 ramulo postico brevissimo constantes. 
23. CuitoscypHus. Folia et foliola iis Lophocolee subconformia ; flores 
autem cladogeni; bractezee 9 pauciores, solum 1-2-jugee, minute ; 
calyptra carnosa ultra perianthium spe protrusa. 
*% Per. a latere compresso-planum, anceps, macrostomum, normaliter 
eplicatum. Bractee g 1-10-andre. 
24, LetoscypHus. Folia opposita, cum foliolo majusculo bifido in verti- 
cillum connata, margine subintegerrima. Per. exalatum ore sepius 
edentatum. 
26. Piagiocuita. Folia utplurimum insigniter dentata ciliatave ; vel 
alterna foliolis nullis, aut parvis et inconspicuis, stipata, vel opposita 
foliolis omnino orbata. Per. ad acies (anticam precipue) frequenter 
alatum, ore semper fere ciliatum spinosumve. 
*** Per, turgidiusculum, scepissime plicatum; ore constrictum, subinde 
initio clausum, demum valvatim ruptum., 
+ Folia opposita, per paria connata. 
27. Syzyeretta. Plagiochile quoad foliaturam simillima, perianthio 
autem pluricarinato ore constricto distat. F!* nulla, 
+t Folia alterna. 
30. LiocHitmNna. Per. cylindricum arcuatum eplicatum abrupte micros- 
tomum. 
31. JUNGERMANIA. Per. forma varium, plerumque subovatum, tota 
longitudine, vel saltem apicem versus, plicis carinisve 3-10 percur- 
sum, rarissime eplicatum. F. integra, bifida vel 3-5-loba. T'* 
nulla vel parva, forma varia.* 
* Pro Jungermanice subgenerum caracteribus videas infra. 
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