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symmetrica, margine antico substricto poslico bene arcualo, apice ad l /s 

 inciso-bilobo, lobis triangulatis acutis inœqualibus, anteriore vulgo 

 majore, marginibus ubique regulariter setulosis, selulis 2-3 cellulas longis 

 approximalis. Folia junior a angustiora ovata celerum simillima, magis 

 quidem decurva. Cellulœ 18 p., basales parum longiores; cuticula antica 

 selulis bicellularibus sat dense armata, ubi folio proximo lecla est, setulae 

 désuni. Amphigastria parva, uno latere coalita, cauli appressa ovata, 

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

 nis majora simillima, symmetrica, apice 2-3 lobata. Amphig. flor. inli- 

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

 auctis, crispatis margine ubique setulosis. Perianthia pro planta 

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

 cia in ramulis brevibus terminalia, bracteis contiguis grosse sac- 

 catis, apice breviler recurvis anguste bifîdulis, antice seligeris, sacculo 

 ilaque nudo. 



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

 Mocambique (Herb. Goimbra), India orienlalis, Java (Iunghuhn, Teys- 

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

 orienlalis (Terreaux, Bäuerlen) New Zealand (Colenso, Knight, Haussier, 

 Beckett), Chile (Düsen), Brasilia (Puiggari, Ule), Cuba (Wright). 



126. Lophocolea leucophylla Tayl. Syn. Hep. p. 155. 



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

 Chiloscijphus leucophyllus Syn. Hep. p. 181. 



Dioica major tenera pallide virens in sicco flavicans, flaccida terricola 

 laxe caespitosa. Caulis ad 5 cm. longus pro planta validissimus debilis 

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

 patula disticha valde concava in piano late triangularia margine postico e 

 basi rolundata substricto late recurvo subconduplicato sat regulariter 

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

 anguslissimo breviler emargin'alo-bispinoso. Cellulœ apicales!8 ^ basales 

 36 X 54 ^ trigonis magnis acutis, cuticula antica papillata. Amphigastria 

 maxima utrinque late coalita vel omnino confluentia, quadrato-rotundata 

 circumcirca longe angusleque spinosa, margine supero late recurvo. 

 Folia floralia intima magna subcircularia grosse dentata, dentibus trian- 

 gulatis acuminatis minoribus mixtis. Amphig. florale intimum uno latere 

 coalitum subrolundum breviler 4-5 lacinulatum lacinulis marginibusque 

 setulis brevibus numerosis hispidis. Perianthia longe exserta, magna, 

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

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



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