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Foliola subcontigua foliis 3plo breviora, ultra medium 4-spina, spinis 
lateralibus brevioribus, utrinque isthmo angusto folio connata. 
Fl. dioici (?): 2 in ramo terminales, sine innovatione: bractee foliis 
duplo longiores oblique ovato-oblonge truncato-bidentulz, margine 
(preecipue postico) dentibus paucis grossis incise ; bracteola plus 
duplo minor subrotunda bipartita, segmentis bifidis, laciniis sub- 
trifidis. 
Perianthia assurgentia emersa, foliis caulinis 3plo longiora, ovata inflata, 
apicem versus trigona, exalata, ore breviter trilabiata, labiis incisis, 
laciniis breviusculis, 2 terminalibus paulo longioribus. Capsula alte 
exserta oblonga, valvulis ruberrimis. 
Amenta ¢ apice v. medio rami posita; bracteze ad 10-jugz foliis sub 
duplo breviores, eadem fere forma, lobulo antico incurvo-inflato 
1-dentato adjecto. 
The plants are impossible to extricate without rupture, so firmly do 
they adhere to each other by the numerous strong radicles, and I do not 
satisfactorily trace the connection of the ¢ branches with the ? plants 
among which they were closely interlaced. 
13. LopHOCOLEA COLUMBICA, Gottsche. 
In G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. 155. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in M. Tunguragua, ad terram sub Ericearum 
umbra; in M. Azuay, ad ramos. Specimina L. coluwmbice originalia 
in monte Pillin—a monte Tunguragua haud longe distante—a cl. 
JAMESON lecta fuerunt. 
F 25 x 2°5; ¢ dy; f* 15x17; cilta 8™™ (10 cell.) longa; br 3-5; br’ 3-0; 
per 5°56 x 4:5™™, 
Laxe ceespitosa, olivacea rufave; caules 3-pollicares seepius erecti, sub- 
flaccidi parum ramosi, ramis postico-lateralibus, 
Folia subopposita paulo imbricata decurvo-convexa, late semiovali- 
rotunda, v. subrhombea, basi lata obliqua inserta, margine antico 
recto integerrima v. cilio uno alterove ornata, postico rotundato 
apiceque longiciliata, ciliis spinisve omnibus 7-8; cellule majuscule, 
endochromio parco, trigonis magnis rutis. 
Foliola foliis cimidio minora, iisdem utrinque isthmo angusto connata, 
hastatim 4-partita, laciniis 2 mediis erectis parallelis, lateralibus 
horizontaliter patulis, omnibus setaceo-acuminatis integerrimis v. 
intus 1-spinosis, basi hine sublongiora spinulaque aucta.—Foliola ali- 
quando 6-(dein 7-) fidainveniuntur, laciniis lateralibus utrinque binis. 
FI. dioici: 9 terminales, innovatione suffulti; bracteze foliis majores ovato- 
orbiculate, toto margine longiciliate ; bracteola brevior ovalis ad 
medium usque 4-fida, laciniis pinnato-ciliatis. 
Perianthia foliis plus duplo longiora, urniformia, 3-gona, angulis ala 
mediocri ciliata auctis, nonnunq. ala brevi subciliata utrique faciei 
interjecta, ore truncato breviter trilobo ciliis longissimis barbata. 
Planta mascula tenuior. Folia solum 5-spinosa. Bractee ¢ paucijuge 
in rami apice confertz, antice lobulo brevi subquadrato 1-2-spinoso 
aucte. Antheridia magna brevi-pedicellata solitaria. 
L. Breutelic Gotts. vix diversa species videretur. L. Orbigniana M. et 
N. descripta est “foliis wndique et longe ciliatis;” forma tamen foliolorum 
nostrati bene convenit. 
