366 13. HOOKERIES. [Hookeria. 
obtusa, nervis tenuibus dorso inconspicuis supra medium evanidis, mar- 
ginibus integerrimis, cellulis parvis elongatis limitibus incrassatis haud 
prominulis; ramulina conformia, subacuta; perichetialia interna e basi 
ovata brevinervata, longe subulata, apice serrulata. Theca in pedunculo 
longissimo levi pendula, oblonga, collo crasso elongato, peristomii dentium 
lamina externa inferne divisa, interni cilis rudimentariis inter processus 
carinatos impositis. 
Hab. In jugis Andium regione temperata, Humbolt et Bonpland. Andes 
Quitenses, in sylva Canelos ad saxa lignaque (3000 ped.), Spruce, n. 687, 
688. 
Folia polymorpha, nunc distiche compressa lateralia oblongo-ligulata 
planiuscula apice subundulata, nune in eodem ramo brevia ovato-ligulata, 
lateralia apicibus complicatis veluti acutis, interdum concava apice sub- 
cucullato-inflexa, marginibus integerrimis, in foliis lateralibus planioribus 
autem crenulatis. 
65. LzPrporrrvw, Brid. ii. 267. 
Musch caulibus repentibus, ramis fertilibus ramosis, rarissime e 
caule primario fructiferis. Folia ut plurimum compressa, in se- 
ries dispares 10 disposita, raro seriebus mediis intermediisque 
superioribus et inferioribus obsoletis, e cellulis elongatis ut plu- 
rimum nitidis areolata, limbo distineto vel obsoleto marginata. 
Theca in pedunculis szpius asperis erectz inclinatzve, operculis 
subulato-acuminatis, peristomii dentibus lamina externa contracta 
angusta rarissime cum interna cosquali, interni processibus an- 
gustis carinatis convexisve in membrana brevi impositis vel ses- 
silibus ; calyptris basi fimbriatis ssepe ramentis inspersis. 
Sect. 1. Isoprepantum. Folia tetrasticha, omnia equalia. 
ee, bv CS 
Sect. 2. TETRAsTICHIUM. Folia tetrasticha, inequalia, seriebus in caulis 
latere superiore minoribus. 
Folia lateralia oblonga, acuta v. breviter acuminata. 
2. L. Patrisie. 
Folia lateralia ovato-oblonga................ 3. L. Splitgerberi. 
Folia lateralia oblongo-obovata.............. 4. L. epiphyllum. 
Sect. 3. AcrINODONTIUM. Folia in series 10 disposita, subequalia. 
Caulis brevis, subsimplez. 
PRENNE Quod sore rrr c DX Du DONDE. 
Sect. 4. HgLIcoBLEPHARUM. Folia in series 10 disposita, equalia. 
Caulis procumbens, ramosus. 
Folia ovali-lanceolata, acuminata ............ 6. L. venustum. 
