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symmelrica, margine antico substricLo postico bene arcuato, apice ad V» 

 inciso-biiobo, lobis triangulatis acutis insequalibus, anteriore vulgo 

 majore, marginibus ubique regulariter setulosis, setuIis2-3celluiaslongis 

 approxima tis. Fo/m/?<mora angusliora ovala ceterum similliraa, magis 

 quidem decurva. Ce//Mte 18 {j., basales parum longiores; cuticula antica 

 setulis bicellularibus sal dense armata, ubi folio proximo lecta esl, setulae 

 desunt. Amphigaslria parva, uno latei^e coalita, cauli appressa ovata, 

 profunde bifida, laciniis margine pinnatim setulosis. Folia floralia cauli- 

 nis majoi'a simillima, symmetrica, apice 2-3 lobala. Amphig. flor. inti- 

 mum ovatum, ad medium inciso-bilobum, lobis triangulatis extus lobulo 

 auctis, crispalis margine ubique selulosis. Perianthia pro planta 

 magna, oblongo-triqueta, inflata, tricarinata, dense setulosa. Androe- 

 cia in ramulis brevibus terminalia, bracteis contiguis grosse sac- 

 catis, apice breviler recurvis anguste bifidulis, antice setigeris, sacculo 

 itaque nudo. 



Heb Cape of good hope (Ecklon, Macowen) Insula Bourbon (Richard), 

 Mocambique (Herb. Coimbra), India orientalis^ Java (lunghuhn, Teys- 

 mann, Miquel, Fleischer, Schiffner), Neu Guinea (Bauerlen), Australia 

 orientalis (Yerreaux, Bauerlen) New Zealand (Colenso, Knight, Haussler, 

 Beckett), Chile (Dus^n), Brasilia (Puiggari, Ule), Cuba (Wright). 



126. Lophocolea leucophylla Tayl. Syn. Hep. p. 153. 



Syn.: Jungerm. leucophylla Tayl. J. of Bot. 1844 p. 384. 

 Chiloscyphus leucophyllus Syn. Hep. p. 181. 



Dioica major lenera pallide virens in sicco flavicans, flaccida terricola 

 laxe CfBspitosa. Caulis ad 5 cm. longus pro planla validissimusdebilis 

 quidem et pluriramosus. Folia caulina 1, 4 mm. longa, conferta recte 

 patula dislicha valde concava in plano late triangularia margine postico e 

 basi rolundata substricto late recurvo subconduplicato sat regulariter 

 dentato-spinoso, antico leviter arcuato substricto remote spinuloso, apice 

 anguslissimo breviter emarginalo-bispinoso. Ceilulae apicalesl8 fi basales 

 36 X S4 [JL trigonis magnis acutis, cuticula antica papillata, Amphigastria 

 maxima utrinque late coalita vel omnino confluentia, quadrato-rotundata 

 circumcirca longe angusteque spinosa, margine supero late recurvo. 

 Folia floi^alia intima magna subcircularia grosse dentala, dentibus trian- 

 gulatis acuminatis minoribus mixtis. Amphig. florale intimum uno latere 

 coalitum subrotundum breviter 4-5 lacinulatum lacinulis marginibusque 

 selulis brevibus numerosis hispidis. Perianthia longe exserta, magna, 

 late alata, alis spinosis et setulosis, ore trilobato, lobis sat regulariter 

 dentato-spinosis. Androccia mediana in caule repetita, bracteis quam 



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