(VOL. VI, 1922) FHANZ STEPHAM. SPECIES IIEPATICAHUM Lop/lOCOlea. 



parva, caule duplo latiora, foliis utrinque breviter connata, disco 

 basali inLegro duplo latiore quam longo, ulrinque setula armato, 

 apice emarginato-bispinoso, spinis longis longeque attenuatis. 

 Pericmthia ambitu late obconica, ad medium inciso-triloba, lobis 

 anticis oblongis, ad medium solutis, apice emarginato-bidentatis, 

 dentibus subapicalibus paucis, parvis, lobo postico multo breviore, 

 ad medium soluto, apice emarginato-bifido sub ajjice paucidentato. 

 Folia floralia intima caulinis simillima. 

 Hab. Aucklands Island (Kirk legit). 



278. Lophoeolea autoica St. n. sp. 



Autoica vel monoica, mediocris, flaccida, olivacea, terricola. 

 Caulis ad 25 mm. longus, irregulariter multiramosus. Folia caulina 

 conferta, subrecte patula, erecto-homomalla, concava, apicibus 

 decurvis, in plano late ligulata (1,17 mm. longa, 0,83 mm. lata) 

 apice maxime irregularia, truncato rotundata vel emarginato- 

 bidentata, vel apiculata. Cellulse superse 27 x 27 [x, basales 36 x 63 (jl, 

 trigonis parvis. Amphigastria cau/ina parva, caule vix latiora, foliis 

 utrinque anguste connata ; disco basali integro utrinque spina 

 armata, apice emarginato-bifida, sinu amplo, laciniis longe setaceis. 

 Perianthia oblonga (4,5 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata) apice truncato- 

 rotundata, irregulariter dentato-spinosa, plicis anguste alatis, alis 

 repandis. Folia floralia intima caulinis sequimagna, similia, apice 

 late emarginato-bidentata, margine supero sparsim remoteque 

 denticulato, margine infero nudo. Amphigastrium florale intimum 

 late ovatum, perianthio parum brevius, apice ad 1/6 bifidum, rima 

 angusta, laciniis angustis cuspidatis porrectis. Androecia in ramis 

 subfloralibus terminalia, bracteis 6-8 jugis, foliis caulinis aequimagnis 

 integerrimis basi saccatim ampliatis, ore truncato, angulo apiculato. 



Hab. Nova Caledonia (Lerat). Hawai (Faurie legit). 



279. Lophocolea boliviensis St. nov. sp. 



Dioica minor, fusco-brunnea vel subatra, in cortice pulvinatim 

 csespitans. Caulis ad 2 cm longus, simplex vel paucipinnulatus. 

 Folia caulina imbricata, oblique patula, erecto-homomalla, valde 

 concava, in plano subrotunda, interdum truncata vel obtuse apicu- 

 lata, valde heterophylla (0,83 mm. longa et lata). Cellulae superae 

 27 X 27 [jL, trigonis parvis, basales 27 x 36 \x, trigonis magnis. 

 Amphigastria caulina parva, caule parum latiora, foliis utrinque 

 connata, subrotunda, ad medium exciso-bifida, laciniis angustis 



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