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BLEPHAROSTOMA PALMATUM Lips. 
By W. H. Pearson. 
(Puate 275). 
Plante dioicw, pu usille, decumbentes, flavo-badiw. Caules 
simplices fureative; ramis lateralibus. Folia suecuba transversave, 
plica angulum 55°, 
integris, celluloso-articulatis; basi obsoleta nullave. Cellule 
parvule, quadrate oblongeve. Foliola magna, foliis equimagna 
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Ptah hes Sane, ore truncata, laciniato-spinosa. Caules 
$ m “ folia secunda, amplexicaulia, monandra, 
cert. glo — es stipitata. 
Dioicous, 2 terminal, growing in ae with stems creeping, 
perianth erect. Stems simple or furcate, on the section 6 x 7 
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rm an the inner, which are almost hyaline; rootlets 
frequent, light n or white proceeding from the b he 
-leaves ; branches lateral. Leaves succubous or papa be 
uniseriate long cells, and one or two rows o 2 at 3 cells at os: 
lower leaves distant, alternate, subquadrate, PER EE ; segments _ 
a ie eat Beets tooth. Bracteole the same, when young 
connate with the perianth. Perianth Pipa above half beyond 
the bracts, obconical, becoming suddenly narrower near the base, 
frontally compressed, trigonous, the third angle pone ee. 
of one layer of cells near the ragga — 100 to Ils round ; 
on the upper (antical) plane face n irregular seam : where the 
two free margins of the bracts are poldered-up to form the perianth ; 
more slender, wi Jay very secund leaves. Andrecia ‘medial or ae 
minal; perigonial leaves 4-8, more delicate, clasping 
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Journat or Borany.—Vow. 25. [Juty, 1887.] o 
