344 MR. RICHARD SPRUCE'S HEPATICE ELLIOTTIANE. 
53. LEJEUNEA FRANGIBILIS, Spruce, n. sp. 
Lioica, virescens, flaccida, fragilis, caule pollicari prostrato, 
paucirameo, ramis sepe parvifoliis, Yolia subimbricata, supra 
lobulum divergentia, subplana, a basi constricta semicordato- 
ovato-oblonga vel subrotunda, abrupte acuminulata, rarius solum 
acuta obtusave, valde sinuato-complicata, celluloso-subcrenulata ; 
lobulus triplo brevior, turgidus, e marginis inflexione late semi- 
ovatus; cellule parvule, subpellucide, trigonis nullis. Foliola 
foliis equimagna, transversa tamen, subimbricata, late cordato- 
orbiculata, ad 4 bifida,segmentis plus minus obtusis.— ulia 6 x *4, 
5 x ‘4, lobulus *2-"125, cellule 7; foliola *5 x °6,°4.x°5 mm. 
Hab. Dominica, in montis cacumine Grande Souffriére dicti, 
alt. 3000 ped. (Exuiorrt, no. $85, 886, Dec. 1892).— Hygrol. fulva, 
Hep. Amaz. p. 237, distat colore, foliis majoribus, lobulo autem 
pro ratione minore, omnibus obtusatis ; foliolis apice solum ad 4 
acute fissis.— Ex habitatione et foliolis magnis obtusilobis eandem 
speciem censeres ac Lejeunea Dominicensis, Mont. Ann. des Se. 
Nat. (1843) ; Syn. Hep. p. 3851; cui tamen adscripta sunt caulis 
rigidus et tolia arctissime imbricata. Forsan ejusdem varietas 
erit. 
54. L. conynantua, Spruce, n.sp. (Tab. XXII. figs. 4-9.) 
Monoica, majuscula, sordide rufo-viridis, tenerrima, caule 
sesquipollicari, } aucirameo, ramisque arcuato-flexuosis.  vlia 
subimbricata, a basi ad plicam rotundata suberecta, ad lobuli 
apicem sinuato-subdivergentia, valde oblique ovato-oblonga, rotun- 
data, cochleato-concava ; lobulus duplo brevior, rotundo-quad- 
ratus, basi turgidus margine appressus, apice truncato-obtusus ; 
cellule subpellucide, ‘“leptodermes, superiores parvule subequi- 
later, medize ivferiores submajores et oblonge, marginales 
antice basin versus lneares. oliola triplo fere breviora, sub- 
orbiculata, ad 3 bifida, segmentis acutis. Flores 2 innovati ; 
bractee foliis submajores, obovate, lobulo late lineari, cum brac- 
teola oblonga ad 3 acute bifida utrinque alte connate. Perianthia 
sat alte emersa, fulva, clavato-cylindrica, tere¢ia, solum in apice 
lato inflexo (cito disrupto) obscure 5-angula. -Andrecia amenti- 
formia, tenuia, bracteis 5-$-jugis. —Foha "65 x “4, lobulus °3, 
cellule superiores =\,, inferiores antice 3, ; foliola °25x°'25; 
bractee “15; perianthia 10 X*4—"5 mm. 
Hab. Dominica, in monte Trois Pitons dicto, ad ligna, socio 
Drepanol. inchoata (Evuiorr, no. 773, Noy. 192). 
