562 FIMBRIARIA. 
Palese hypophylle magne 4-seriate, bifarize, roseo-purpure, basi 
lata valde obliqua insert, oblique cuneato-rotunde, elongato-cellu- 
losee repando-denticulate, ex apice lato retuso appendiculam flavam 
ovato-lingulatam acuminatam spinoso-serrulatam proferentes. 
Flores dioici: 9 terminales. Pedunculus fronde paulo brevior, excen- 
tricus, tetragonus, antice subconcavus, ad angulos anticos alte cos- 
tatus, costis anguste tubulosis, postice convexus profunde bicanali- 
culatus; pilis sparse villosus, apice squamulis pluribus pendulis, 
aliis subulatis longe flexuoso-acuminatis, aliis filiformibus, stipatus. 
Capitula alte convexa, fere hemispherica, levia, margine crenulato 
integra vel brevissime 4-5-loba, cavernosa. Involucra 4y. 5, bracteis 
duabus receptaculo adnatis, inter se fere liberis, ventricosis, margine 
conniventibus pulchre ciliato-fimbriatis—ciliis plerisque e cellulis 
biseriatis formatis, apice bidentulis—tenuibus, elongato-reticulatis, 
intus sparse papillosis, constantia. Perianthia ovali-globosa, tenuis- 
sima, pellucida, albida reseo picta, primum clausa, demum apice 
inequaliter 5-loba. Pistillidia 10, vel plura, distiche conferta, 2 vel 
3 fertilia. Calyptra oblongo-globosa, pallide virens, validiuscula. 
Capsula subglobosa, calyptram fere exacte replens. 
Capitula ¢ femineis 2—3plo latiora, explanata, stellatim 5-partita, laciniis 
linearibus supra antheridiiferis subtus paleaceis. 
Stirps in Andibus humilioribus late dispersa variat fronde crassiore 
tenuioreve, semel vel iteratim dichotoma, pedunculo subcentrali vel 
fere laterali, ete. Ad Banos adest forma capitulo margine omnino 
elobulato, paleis involucralibus copiosis. In Rio Verde rupibus 
altera forma major, tenuis, paleis paucis pallidis, valvulis involucri 
pallidis breviciliolatis. 
XLIL FIMBRIARIA, Nees. 
in Hor. phys. Berol. 45, et Hep. Eur. 259; Syn. Hep. 555. 
Frondes plerumque carnosee et opacee, raro tenuiores et pellucida, 
supra plus minus distincte reticulate poroseque, subtus radicellis 
pilose et paleis paucis 1—2-seriatis squamose; apice emarginato vel 
innovantes vel fructiferse, raro dichotome; in aliis speciebus fron- 
dulas posticas stipitatas, sape floriferas, ¢ vel ?, proferentes. 
Flores dioici vel monoici. Peduncilus in caule, rarius in ramo, ter- 
minalis, brevis rarius elongatus, unicanaliculatus, subpilosus, apice 
paleis angustis pendulis barbatus. Cap/tulum hemisphericum vel 
fere planum, margine 4-lobum vel subintegrum. Involucra pler- 
umque 4 (1-6) tenuia brevi-tubulosa, ore lato subbiloba, uniflora. 
Perianthium plus minus emergens, seepe roseum vel violaceum, ovato- 
conoideum, apice breviter tubulare, primum integrum, demum rimis 
4-16 (raro pluribus) dehiscens, laciniis ipso apice plerumque cohee- 
rentibus. Calyptra pertenuis et fragilis, in fructu evanescens. Cap- 
sula brevissime pedicellata, globosa, unistrata, cellulis exannulatis, 
matura circumscissa. lateres breves 1-3-spiri. Spore magne, 
