428 LOPHOCOLEA. 
3. LOPHOCOLEA FOLIICOLA, Spruce. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in M. Tunguragua, super folia emortua. 
F 12x 1-0, 105 x 9; ¢ gy; f ‘35 x ‘13, “4x35, 6 x “4; br 18; 
liye NA e tefayen 
Viridis, tenera, arcte adrepens; caules pollicares vage parce ramosi 
pallidi. 
Folia distantia varie patula, rotundo-quadrata, ad medium usque bifida, 
sinu rotundato, segmentis triangularibus cuspidatis; cellule parvule 
eequilatere pellucide. 
Foliola foliis 3plo minora, superiora increscentia, erecto-patula, lanceolata 
y. cuneata, profunde bifida, integerrima vel utrinque 1-spina. 
Fl, dioici : 9 terminales, sene tmnovatione. Bractez foliis majores acute 
bifidee recurvee ; bracteola cuneato-oblonga breviter bifida, apice sub- 
denticulata (vel non). 
Perianthia (valde juvenilia) triquetra, angulis lateralibus anguste lacini- 
ato-alatis, antica exalata, ore 3-labiata, labiis bifidis laciniatis. 
L. condunate certe affinis, ramo 9 haud innovando, perianthiis alis 
laciniatis auctis ; differt vero foliis subrotundis, profunde (ad 4) befidis, 
muito densius textis, et bracteola solum breviter bifida, utrinque inermi 
nec 1-spina. 
4, LOPHOCOLEA BLEPHAROPTERA, Spruce. 
Hab. in truncis putridis terraque Andium Peruvianorum sylvestrium, 
locis Tavalosos, Tarapoto et monte Campana. 
F13x°95; cok; f@ media 5x°5; br 2°0,15;5 br* 18x13, LAx 755 
per 45 x 2:0™™, 
Pusilla, e pallido-viridi ccerulescens, siccando rufo-badia ; caules 3-1- 
pollicares, basi repentes, subfasciculato-ramosi, ramique assurgentes 
seepe innovando-proliferi, paucifolii. 
Folia subopposita subimbricata convexo-recurvula oblique ovata exciso- 
bidentata, sinu plus minus profundo, dentibus cuspidatis sub- 
parallelis ; cellule ;™™ subeequilateree tenues pellucida. 
Foliola inferiora minuta, superiora sensim increscentia, sicut flores ? 
versus folia subjecta fere eequant, iisdemque utrinque isthmo angusto 
brevi connata sunt, lato-cuneata, ad medium exciso-bilida, segmentis 
subacuminatis, hine v. utrinque spina aucta, quasi ineequaliter 4-fida 
(3-fidave). 
Fl. dioici:  terminales, in ramo seepe (nec semper) innovando-continuo, 
Bracteee magnitudine valde varize, seepe foliis sat majores, inter se 
semper inzequales ; forma foliorum sed margine plus minus ciliate ; 
bracteola subbrevior cuneato-obovata, apice inaequaliter bi-trifida et 
subdenticulata ; bracteole: exteriores et foliola proxima magis sym- 
metrice bifida utrinque 1-dentata. 
Perianthia foliis plus 8plo longiora lanceolato-oblonga alato-triquetra, 
alis mediocribus inwqualibus erebre dentato-ciliatis-laciniatisve, ore 
3-labiata, labiis bifidis ciliatis. (Lacinize alarum haud raro iterum 
denticulate ciliateve). 
Var. flaccida, major, valde innovando-ramosa, ramis 9 ter quaterve pro- 
liferis. Folia flaccidissima, lata basi inserta, ramorum @ spe 
margine postico spinula una alterave armata. Perianthia longissima 
