MR. RICHARD SPRUCE’S HEPATICE ELLIOTTIAN. 3845 
55. LeEsEUNEA LEIANTHA, Spruce, n. sp. 
Monoica, pallide viridis, prostrata, caule sesquipollicari flaccido, 
inequaliter pinnatim ramoso, Folia imbricata, subdivergentia, 
cochleato-subconcava, a basi constricta oblique transverse oblonga, 
rotundata, raro solum obtusa, sinuato-complicata, lobulo plus 
triplo breviore, turgido ; cellule parvule, subconformes, trigonis 
nullis. Foliola 4plo minora, obovato-rotunda, vix ad medium 
usque bifida, segmentis obtusis subacutisve. ores 2 in ramo 
brevi innovato terminales; Jbractee foliis wquales, obovato- 
oblong, spe acute, lobulo parvo plano haud complicate ; 
bracteola lineari-oblonga, breviter bifida, segmentis obtusis. 
Perianthia alte emersa, ovali-cylindrica, subcompressa, ecarinata, 
apice retuso umbonata, demum valde elongata infundibulata, 
apice semper fere rupta et hiautia. Andrecia parva, 4-5-juga, 
facile caduca.—Volia *5 x5, lobulus*15, cellule }; ; foliola +125 ; 
bractee *5, bracteola °35 X ‘13; perianthia ‘8 x°3 mm. 
Hab. In monte Micotrin, ins. Dominice, ad rupes super Sym- 
phyogynam trivittatam repens (ELLIoTT, no. 86 p.p., Junio 
1892).—A H. corynantha certe ditiert foliis brevioribus sed lati- 
oribus, lobulo duplo minore magis saccato; foliolis duplo minori- 
bus ; cellulis magis equalibus ; bracteis perianthiisque minoribus. 
56. L. PATELLIFERA, Spruce, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xv. 
p- 234.—St. Vincent, Richmond Valley (212),—a tew stems 
creeping on a Jtadula. 
57. L. Marreora?, Spruce, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xv. 
p. 240.—Dominica, Morne Diabiotin (646),—sterile. 
Subgenus 21. EvosmoLeseunea, Spruce. 
58. L. rriraria, Nees, in Syn. Hep. p. 361.—Dominica, Roseau 
Valley (72, 80), Morne Couronne (216, 280), Shawford Estate 
($96),—often forming continuous patches on bark, and reach- 
ing a moderate elevation in the mountains. 
The name which I gave to this subgenus was suggested by the 
sweet odour which is a marked feature in all the Amazonian 
species, some of which, after a lapse of mcre than 40 years, still 
give out their fine scent of sweetbriar when moistened. Yet, 
curiously enough, although the three West-Indian species here 
enumerated are all tound on the Atnazon, not one of them has any 
perceptible odour. Possibly what they originally possessed has 
