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incumbente lioiizonlalia, breviter decurrentio, adpressa, circuniscriptione cordato- 

 semicirculari, convexiuscula, integerrima, subinde obsolete sinuoso-repanda, basi 

 ventrali plica brevi angustissima sublobulata, instructa, siccitate plerunuiue deflexa. 

 Ampbigastria reniformia caulis latitudinem duplo excedentia, flpice sinu obtusan- 

 gulo vel subacuto breviter biloba, lobis obtusis acutisve, caeferum integra sub- 

 concava, patula. Fructu in raniulis lateralibus, brevissimis, tenuissimisque alterni 

 vel subsecundi. Folia involucralia obovata, subacutata, divergentia, margine 

 supero subrepnnda, infero plica angusta reflexa inslruc(a, caeterum planiuscula, 

 cum ampbigastrio obovato, acute bidentato periantliio breviora. Periantbium 

 obovato-truncatum, apice retusum, umbonatum, subcompressuni, facie ventrali 

 sulcis binis exaralum. Capsula rotunda epigonio styligero mucronata. fllaturam 

 et exsertam non vidimus. 



LEJEUMA OERSTEDIANA Lindbg. Mss. 



Z,. imhricato-cacspitosa ; caulibus deciimhcntihus vagc ramosis; foliis approximatis, 



vix imhricnnlihiis, hasi producta amplcctcnte horizontalihus, patidis, rotundatis, 



convcxis, integerrimis, hasi ventrali hreviter decurrcnte auricidatis; amphigasfriis 



foliis ampliorihiis imhricatis , reniformi rotundatis, apicc hidcntatis ; fructihus 



latcralibus ; foliis involncralihus adprcsso- patulis , lohulo dentiformi, suhtus sub- 



complicatc canalicidat is ; perianthio oblongo-obovato involucrum superante, acute 



quinque-costato, apice rctuso, apiculato, laevi. 



L. Oerstcdiana Lindbg. Mss. — Hampe in Linnaea Vol. XXIV, pag. 641. 



Ilabitat in Jamaica insula. 



E minoribus, expallens surculis procumbentibus in puhinulos unciales aut 



paullo majores depressis imbricatis crescens. Rami primarii elongati, flexuosi, 



molles, inferne subdenudali, vage ramosi, ramisque intervallis inaequalibus ramu- 



losis. Rami ramulique longiludine varii, simplices iterunive divisi, maxime juniores 



(antberidiiferi?) oblongo-ovati, juliformes. Folia expallenlia, ccllulis rotundatis, 



interstitiis trigonis grandiusculis distinctis, utriculoque primordiaii foetis, niargi- 



nalibus subsemiellipticis contextn, in planum alterne disticlia, approximala, vix 



imbricantia, basi dorsali producta semiamplectente borizontalia, patula subrofunda, 



