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postical margin. The type of the underleaves seems as follows: they 
are broadly cuneate—at the apex of the segments spreading widely beyond 
the stem—twice bifid, with rounded sinuses and subulate segments ; lateral 
segments longer and narrower, inner wider and 3-cleft or trispinous; and 
when all the divisions are nearly equal (as sometimes happens) we have 
an 8-ciliate or 8-spinose stipule. The bracteoles are on the same plan ; 
cuneato-quadrate, or oblong, cloven to about one-third into 4 subulate 
spines, whereof the two medial ones are 2-3-spinose at the apex. 
A smaller form grows at the cataracts of the Rio Negro, in which the 
leaves sometimes want the marginal spine, and the underleaves are 
commonly only 5-spinose. 
10. LOPHOCOLEA CONNATA (Sw.). 
Jungermania connata Sw. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occid. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in sylva Canelos, ad truncos prostratos. Per totas 
insulas Caribzeas et in Mexico. 
F18x1-05; c35 f%-9x°5; br 16; br’*13x°85; per 4:0 x 1:2™™ (alis 
eaxclusis). 
Albido-viridis dense prostrato-czespitosa ; caules 1-1} pollicares vage sub- 
ramosa, ramis densifoliis subimbricatis. 
Folia opposita dense imbricata, basi vel paulo ultra medium sese obte- 
gentia, apicem versus dissita, subfaleata, longe triangularia, apice 
truncato exciso-bicornuta, sinu lunato rarius triangulari, cornubus 
divaricatis setaceo-cuspidatis, margine antico latissime decurva, basi 
longe decurrente cum folio opposito subconnata, integerrima v. raro 
margine supero apicem versus unispinosa; cellule subsequilaterae 
subchlorophyllose, leptodermes angulis parum incrassatis. 
Foliola imbricata, cum foltis subjectis alte connata, suberecta, foliis 2plo 
minora, subquadrata, ad medium usque exciso-bispina (rarissime 
3-spina), spinis subulatis capillari-acuminatis erecto-incurvis, sinu 
lunulato, integerrima vel aliquando utrinque 1-dentata. 
Fl. monoici: 2 terminales, v. perseepe ramulo brevissimo constantes, quasi- 
laterales; bracteze 2-3-jugze, parve, intime foliis minores eadem fere 
forma sed oblique emarginato-bispinos, recurvo-torte, postice seepius 
1-2-spinulosz : bracteola bracteis vix diversa, sed symmetrica et erecta, 
utrinque 2-spinulosa v. inermis. 
Perianthia alte emersa foliis plus duplo longiora, ovato-fusiformia trigona, 
latissime alata, alis superne dentato-spinosis, ore constricto 3-labiata, 
labiis brevibus bifidis in spinas subulatas implexas incisis. 
Amenta ¢ in ramo terminalia; bracteze pro more paucijuge, foliis duplo 
minores, basi lobulo inflato 1-dentato auctze, superne recurvo-squar- 
rosx, bifid, antice cum bractea opposita, postice cum bracteola parva 
bifida, in urceolum coalitee. 
A. L. Martiana diversa foliorum cornibus cuspidatis divaricatis, foliolis 
bifidis (nec quadrifidis), bracteola bifida (nec truncato—4-fida) et perianthiis 
latissime alatis. Cum L. connata 6 “ foliorum dentibus longioribus,” Syn. 
Hep. convenire videtur. 
In eadem sylva, ad fluvii Verde ripas precipue, adest forma foliis 
brevissime apiculatis, sinu vario plerumque rectilineo, interdum triangu- 
lari lunulatove ; foliolis subtriplo brevioribus profunde bifidis, segmentis 
divaricatis, subulatis rarissime iterum bifidis. Alteram formam (ejusdem 
speciei?) in truncis fl. Casiquiart et Pacimonz inveni, foliolis magnis 
