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formia profunde 6—8-fida—quasi primum 4-fida, segmentis pro more 
bifidis—laciniis angustis spineeformibus, 
Flores monoici: % ramo postico brevissimo constantes. Bracteze bijuge, 
exteriores minute anguste, interiores follis sepius subminores 
oblong, toto margine spinosee, tenerve; bracteola longior, oblonga 
ultra medium bifida, segmentis angustis acuminatis squarrose 
spinosis. 
Perianthia foliis vix duplo longiora campanulata compressula exalata, ore 
breviter 3-labiata, labiis bifidis, lobulis ciliatis, ciliis longissimis, 
12-17-cellulas longis, erectis. 
Andrecia tenuia amentiformia, foliolis axillaria, foliis contigua et 
parallela, iisdem subsequilonga ; bractezee ad 10-jugee julaceo- 
imbricatee, vix confertee, oblougee, canaliculato-concave, apice digi- 
tatim ciliato-fidee, monandre; bracteols ovales, apice ciliate. 
Var. 8 speciosa 8, 
F 27x20, cilia 15, cellule 3; f 18x18; br 3:0x2'3; br 19x19; 
per 40x30; amenta g 1:0, br g 6-8™, 
Major; caules 2-3-pollicares. Folia duplo fere majora, latiora, toto 
margine, basi antica excepta, spinoso-ciliata, cillis sub 1&, ad 10 
cellulas longis, varie hamatis. Foliola magna, foliis solum dimidio 
breviora, toto margine Jongiciliata, ciliis 12-15. Amenta sepe 
opposita, singula binave ex utroque foliolianguloorta. —Diversaspecies 
videretur, cum typo autem sedulo comparata, ab eodem haud sepa- 
randa.—Planta Pichinchensis foliola habet preelata (1-0 x 1°5™™). 
Obs. The two male catkins, standing one on each side of an underleaf— 
more rarely four catkins, two on each side—with a vacant middle space 
(as it were for the reception of a female flower, which is obsolete) suggest 
an analogy with Kantva. 
XXIV. LEIOSCYPHUS, Mitt. 
In Hook. Antarct. Voy. P. 2, p. 134 (1853). Leptoscyphus 
ejusd. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ILL, p. 358 (1851). 
Plante pro more elatiuscul, late depresso-ceespitosze, radicellose, 
parum ramose ; rami postici, foliolis axillares ; innovationes autem 
postice et laterales. Folia succuba opposita, basi antic&é contrariis 
contigua, posticé, mediante foliolo, in verticillum trifoliatum connata, 
oblique oblonga rotundave, subdimidiata, apice rotundata retusave, 
rarissime subbifida, margine sepius integerrimo, antico recurvulo 
decurrente. Cellule parvulz vel mediocres, pariete ad angulos valde 
incrassato. ol/ola ubique presentia, foliis subduplo breviora, 
biloba vel bipartita, laciniis acuminatis ; utroque margine inferne 
1-3-spina vel integerrima. lures dioici: 2 in caule, raro etiam in 
ramis terminales, innovationibus tenuibus, seepe binis vel quaternis, 
posticis vel lateralibus, suffulti. Bractee unijuge, foliis subcon- 
formes, paulo latiores magisque armate. P/stillidia 12-16. Peri- 
anthium liberum, a latere compressum, oblongum, ad apicem fere 
usque xquilatum, vel superne paulo latius, inferne turgidiusculum, 
