FM.AGIOCHILA OERSTEDIANA Lindbg. Mss. 



P. caule decumbente denudato; ramis erectis a basi divisis simplicibusque supeme 

 ramulosis ; foliis distichis, altemis, patulis, basi utrinque decurrente subverticalibus, 

 ovato -triangularibus , undulatis, apice obtusis truncatisve, toto margine ventrali 

 incurvo, convexo, apiceque dentato • subspinulosis, margine dorsali rcflexo, apiceni 

 versus remote denticidatis ; perianthio terminali vcl supcnie axillari cyathiformi, 

 undulato, ciliato-fimbriato ; foliis involucralibus adpressis , semicordatis ciliato- 

 dentatis. 

 P. Oerstediana Lindenbg. Mss. — Hampe in Linnaea Vol. XXIV, pag. 301. 



Habitat in Costa rica Americae centralis, locis montosis, altitud. 5 — 8000 ped. 

 supra mare. 

 Rami e surculo repente, denudato fuscescente pleriqne erecti, bi - tripol- 

 licares, compressiusculi, basi saepius denudati, nunc longo tractu inferne simplices, 

 nunc a basi patenfer in planum ramosi , subdendroidei, omnes superiori parte 

 alterne remoteque furcatim deconipositi. Bamuli sensim decrescentes, plerumque 

 divaricati, remoti, rarissime approximati, vel oppositi, juniores saepe apice nutantes. 

 Folia pailide e luteo virescentia, membranacea, cellulis rotundatis, rotiindato- 

 ellipticis vel obtuse angulatis contexta, dispositione disticha, alterna, patula, 

 nunc surculo imbricantia, nunc tantum approximata, vel in ramis novellis remo- 

 tiuscuia caulcm oblique seniiamplectentia, in unaquaque caulis divisione plerumque 

 a basi sensim ampliora, vel rarius utrinque decrescentia, undulata, in sicco sparsim 

 crispula vel torquescentia. In caulis divisionibus primariis folia circumscriptione 

 subtriangulari inaequilatera se praebent, vel si mavis ovato-falciformia. Horum 

 margo ventralis basi porrectus, rotundatus, ex toto et simul cum folii apice 

 dentibus subulatis, majoribus minoribusque alternnntibus, sinubus ohtusis distinclis, 

 dentato-snbspinulosis; margo dorsalis basi oblique, longeque in caulem decurrens, 

 reflexus, sub apice obiter remoteque denticulafus. Folia ramorum secundariorum 



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