Lepidopilum.] 18. HOOKERIEX. 385 
53. L. PHYLLORHIZUM (Mitt.). Rami abbreviati. Folia compressa, 
lateralia divergentia, latere inferiore inflexo, intermedia breviora, media 
ovalia, omnia nervis angustis medio evanidis, marginibus apice serrulatis 
hie illic rhizophoris, cellulis late ovalibus utriculi dissoluti vestigiis re- 
pletis; perichetialia ovata, acuminata. Theca in pedunculo brevi scabro 
inclinata?, ovalis, operculo subulato, peristomio basi in membrana brevi 
exserta, dentibus processibusque equilongis punctulatis; calyptra parce 
ramentosa, ad thecz medium descendens. 
Hab. Ins. Cuba, Wright, n. 85, ex parte. 
Rami 3-unciales, cum foliis 2 lineas lati. Folia pallide lutea obscurius- 
cula. Pedunculus 3-linearis. 
54. L. cHLORONEURON (Tayl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 61, Hookeria). 
Rami graciles, elongati, ramulis paucis divergentibus subpinnatim ramosi. 
Folia divergentia, recta subarcuatave, latere inferiore inflexo, intermedia 
oblongo-lanceolata mediaque ovali-lanceolata acuminata, omnia nervis 
medio evanidis, marginibus superne serrulatis, cellulis ovalibus utriculo 
contracto obscuris, ad margines seriebus 5—6 angustioribus limbum tenuem 
formantibus ; perichetialia ovato-subulata, subserrulata. Theca in pedun- 
culo brevi, oblonga, erecta, operculo conico subulato, peristomio longo 
dentibus angustis, processibus zequilongis. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, Jameson, in monte Chimborazo, in sylvis Cin- 
chonze (3000-5000 ped.), Spruce, n. 739. 
Rami 2-4-unciales, cum foliis 13 lineam lati. Folia viridia, fulvescentia 
obscura, inter se remotiuscula, angusta, sicca patentia contracta. Pedun- 
culus 3-4-linearis. 
55. L. BREVIFOLIUM (Mitt.). Rami elongati, pinnatim ramosi; ramulis 
divergentibus. Folia compressa, imbricata, lateralia patenti-divergentia, 
latere inferiore inflexo, intermedia mediaque ovalia, omnia breviter acumi- 
nata, nervis brevibus ultra medium haud productis, marginibus superne 
minute serrulatis, cellulis teneris elongato-ellipticis pellucidis; perichztialia 
brevia, latissime ovata, acuta. Theca in pedunculo setuloso, oblonga, in- 
clinata, operculo subulato, peristomii interni processibus dorso convexis; 
calyptra ad thecze medium descendens, superne ramentis divergentibus in- 
spersa. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in sylva Canelos (3000 ped.), Spruce, n. 784; 
secus rivulum ad pedem occidentalem montis Abitagua, in ramulis (3000 
ped.), Spruce, n. 785. 
Rami 2-3-unciales, ramulis pluribus inzqualibus, cum foliis lineam lati. 
Folia e viridi fulvo-straminea, nitida. Pedunculus }-uncialis. 
56. L. sEMIL EVE (Mitt.). Dioicum, rami breviusculi. Folia com- 
pressa, lateralia patenti-divergentia, latere inferiore inflexo, intermedia 
ligulato-oblonga, media ovato-oblonga, omnia apicibus acutis subtortis, 
nervis infra medium evanidis, marginibus superne serrulatis, cellulis 
oblongo-ellipticis utriculo vestigio repletis; perichzetialia lanceolata, apici- 
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