HANDISOOK ())■ i;klll>ll II I'.l'A I l(/l«:. 83 



1)\- th(' iiinrgin of the apex, saccate, pendulous, 

 mouth funnel-shaped, lobate, everywhere 

 hairy with erect setae, l)earded at insertion ; 

 capsule spiral, naked, four-valved, valves 

 spirally contorted ; elaters double, naked, de- 

 ciduous. — Gray Arr. I., 706 (i<S2i). Spruce 

 Hep. Amaz. p. 409. Cincinnulus, Ditiiwrf. 

 Ifrp. Eur. p. 115, /. 3,/ 32. 



Plants stipulate, leaves incurrcnt, entire or cmar- 

 c^ in ate. 



Spruce says that although it is exceedingly 

 probable that Kantia is a marsupial form of Trigo- 

 uantJiccc, it is difficult to fix on any one genus of 

 that tribe of which it may be the direct descendant. 

 Its nearest existing ally seems to be Bazzaiiia. 

 Kaiitia agrees with Ccphalozia in having all the 

 branches, whether foliiferous or floriferous, postical, 

 axillary to the under leaves, in the monandrous 

 male bracts, and the two-layered capsule. 



Kantia trichomanis, Dicks. 



Stem creeping, branched; leaves entire and 

 emarginate; stipules orbicular, lunate-emar- 

 ginate; cal3^x pendulous; capsule four-valved, 

 twisted. 



Jungcrniannia trichomanis, Dicks. Crypt. 

 III., t. 8, f . 5 ; Hook. Br. Jung. t. 79; Eng. 

 Hot. t. 1835. Ciucinmihis trichomanis, Dumort. 

 Comm. j). 113. Calopogcia trichomanis, Cord^ 

 Opiz. p. 653; Cooke Hep. f. iiq. Kantia 

 trichomanis, Carr and Pears. Exs. i 26, 267. 



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