CHAPTER XXVIII 



LOXSOMACEAE 

 This Family includes two genera, Loxsoma and Loxsomopsis, of the affinity 

 of which there can be no doubt. The former is represented by the single 

 species L. CimnmghamiV>x., endemic in New Zealand: the latter by three 





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Fig- 5'20- Leaf of Loxsomopsis notabilis Slosson. From a photograph of the type specimen, 

 kindly supplied from the United States National Herbarium. (Reduced.) 



species discovered since 1900, widely spread through Central America, viz. 

 L. costaricensis Christ, from Costa Rica, L. Lehmanni Hier, from Equador, 

 and L. notabilis Slosson, from Bolivia. The isolation of the habitats of the 

 two genera, their paucity of species, and their peculiar characteristics 



