LOPHOCOLEA. 439 
Perianthia pro plantula mawima, foliis c. 4plo longiora, anguste obconica 
v. potius tubzformia, trigona, angulo antico anguste serrato-alato, 
laterali altero ala angust4 subserraté versus medium desinente per- 
curso, altero omnino exalato, demum fere teretia, ore dilatato 
breviter 3-labiata, labiis apice bilobis, margine sinuato-crispis ser- 
ratisque. 
Amenta ¢ (sepe in pl. propria tenuiore longioreque) ramum terminantia ; 
bractez foliis sensim minores sub 10-jugee alternie, conferte, basi 
lobulo turgido unidentato, antheridium solitarium magnum fovente, 
aucte, apice brevi recurvo bidentato vix serrulate. 
L. spinosa G., sterilis solum nota (ex ins. Hawai?) probabiliter dioica est, 
itaque a nostra sat diversa. 
Var. FIMBRIOLATA S. Folia ciliolata, ciliis 3-4c. longis. Floresc. semper 
monoica. Bractea intima sepe prelonga, dimidium perianthium 
excedens, ligulato-rectangularis, apice bifida, sinu triangulari, lobulis 
spinoso-acutis subdivergentibus. Perianthia perfecte levia, idem ac 
in stirpe Amazoniensi ; in typo autem Mexicano tuberculis sparsa 
videntur.— Tarapoto, in trunco carioso. 
LOPHOCOLEA TENERRIMA, Spruce. 
Clasmatocolea tenerrima nobis in Mst. olim. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in M. Pichincha, alt. 3000-8700", ad terram secus 
rivulos, sociis J. J. hyalina var. et subinflata. 
F°8x°6,°6x°5, °4x°33 ¢ Aya; £425 br 25 5 per (juv.) 20x12; 
caps “5™™. 
Pusilla }-pollicaris pallide viridis, czespitosa. Caules basi subramosi, 
ramis sterilibus arcuato-radicantibus, fertilibus brevissimis erectis. 
Folia assurgenti-secunda, alterna, subimbricata, rotundo-quadrata-rhom- 
beave, ad medium fere biloba, lobis acuminatis, toto margine parce 
spinuloso lacinulatove ; superiora (fl. @ versus) 4-loba, lobis mediis 
bifidis, laciniis omnibus subulatis ; cellule parvule hexagone, in- 
feriores subelongate, tenues, fere vacue. Folia ramorum sterilium 
minora, rhomboidea, apice 2—4-fida, ceeterum subintegerrima. 
Foliola foliis duplo breviora, caule subangustiora, ligulata, ad medium 
bifida, laciniis subulatis erectis ; superiora ramorum @ fperpaulo 
majora, basi hine v. utrinque unispina. 
Flores dioici: @ terminales, sine innovatione. Bractee foliis 3plo 
majores subrotund cochleato-concavee, apice inequaliter laciniate, 
exetero margine denticulate ; bracteola bracteis brevior, longe angus- 
tior, lanceolato-ligulata, ad medium biloba, lobis erectis acutis, 
spinulosa. 
Perianthia (juniora) immersa, campanulata, obtuse trigona, exalata, ore 
triloba, lobis paucilaciniatis. (Unicum maturum jam semidestructum 
vidi: calyptra tamen relicta, sat brevis, ovalis, crassiuscula, strato 
cellularum unico conflata. Capsula majuscula oblonga. 
This little plant is so disfigured by the apices of the leaves being dis- 
solved into propagula as to be difficult to describe. Its characters are 
somewhat anomalous. ‘The toothed leaves seem to place it near Lopho- 
colea Liebmanniana ; but neither that nor any other Lophocolea has assur- 
gent leaves, which point rather to the union of the species with Clasmato- 
colea. 
