438 LoPHOCOLEA. 
repentes foliosi, ramos assurgentes 5™™ longos pro more paucifolios 
edentes. 
Folia opposita antice posticeque (foliolo mediante) connata, semiverticalia 
subimbricata, recurvo-patula oblongo-rhomboidea vel fere rectangu- 
laria, ad 4-} acute bitida, segmentis acutis sepe conniventibus, 
margine toto crebre implexe ciliata, facie superiore, apicem mar- 
ginemque anticum versus preecipue, papillis piliformibus 2-5-articu- 
latis obsessa; cellulee parvee pellucide, inferiores rectangulari-6- 
gone, subapicales subrhombe, angulis haud incrassate, granis 
chlorophylli paucis rotundis oblongisve continentes, pleraeque 
superne in pilum productie. 
Foliola subdissita recurvula foliis duplo breviora, fl. Q versus sensim 
majora, ligulato-oblonga, ad medium bifida, segmentis erectis acutis, 
ciliata, epapillosa, basi utrinque foliis connata. 
Fl. monoici: Q terminales, innovatione nulla suffulti ; bractez foliis $ 
majores ligulato-oblongze, subobliquee, recurvee, apice bifidee ; brac- 
teola paulo minor appressa ovali-ligulata ad medium bifida, ciliata. 
Perianthia foliis fere 4plo longiora ovali-cylindrica subclavata a latere 
compressa, juvenilia obscure trigona, adulta compresso-teretia, pilo- 
sissima, ore subconstricto (vix plicato) vix ad f usque 3-labiata, labiis 
bifidis conniventibus ciliatis. 
Amenta ¢ ramum foliosum terminantia longispica ; bracteze sub 10-juge, 
foliis sensim minores, julaceo-imbricatee, basi incurvo-concavee, apice 
recurvo bifidee, margine ciliate, alternee, a bracteolis sublbere, 
monandre. 
L. muricata in Syn. Hep. descripta est foliolis papillosis et perianthiis 
ovatis plicatis ; ceeterum a nostra vix separanda. Omnino eadem vide- 
retur L. horridula Sande-Lacoste in ‘* Hep. Javanice.” 
18. LopHocoLEA LIEBMANNIANA, Gottsche. 
Mexik. Leverm. 113, t. 18; var. LEIANTHA, Spruce. 
BF 5x °35, 55 x 35; ¢ aoa; f@ °15; br 1:0; br’ 65x 35; per 20x “75, 
21x gem, 
Hab. Ad fl. Aripecura (fl. Amazonum trib.), in trunco vetusto ; etiam in 
Andibus inferioribus juxta Tarapoto. In Mexico invenit LIEBMANN. 
Minuta, albescens ; caules j-pollicares vage subramosi repentes, rami ? 
assurgentes paucifolii, steriles masculique magis elongati prostrati 
arcuantesve. 
Folia alterna subimbricata, patulo-decurvula, basi fere longitudinali 
inserta, fl. Q versus tamen subopposita magis obliqua v. fere verti- 
calia, suboblique rectangulari-oblonga, apice breviter (vix ad }) sub- 
acute bitida, sezgmentis triangularibus acutis. Margine toto fere vel 
saltem a medio ad apicem usque argute inzequaliter ciliolato-serru- 
lata; cellulee parvee subeequilateree subleptodermes, angulis solum 
paululum incrassaize, intus rotundo-4—6-gone, granis chlorophyll 
sat magnis in annulum plus minus coacervatis. 
Foliola canle haud latiora, foliis 3-4-plo breviora, ad basin usque bipar- 
tita, cruribus suberectis subulato-setaceis basi 2c. latis, integerrima, 
libera. 
FP]. monoici et dioici: 9 in ramo brevi paucifolio terminales, innovatione 
nulla; bracteze intime foliis suabduplo majores recurvo-canaliculatee 
paulo magis serrate ; bracteola minor (=br. #) lanceolato-oblonga 
ultra medium bifida subserrata. 
