176 STEGOCARPI, PLEUROCARPI.  PiLorRICHUM. 
pallida, elongate dense reticulata, coneava, haud plicata, 
nervo in cuspidem latam | strictam tenuiter serrulatam 
producto pungentia; theca immersa oblonga subjplicata 
leptodermis annulata, operc. conico acuminato recto; pe- 
rist. d. ext. longe anguste lanceolati tenuiter subulati 
pallidi subrugulosi, linea media laevi exarati, int., capilla- 
res aequilongi subnodosi rugulosi albidi. 
Cruphaea Gorveana Mont. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 1845, p. 99 et in 
Gay: Hist. de Chile. Bot. Crypt. t. 5. f. 3. 
Patria. In arboribus Chiles: C. Gay. 
Flores masc. hujusce speciei distinctissimae infra fe- 
mineos permulti. 
50. P. rufescens C. Müll.; monoicum; caulis peda- 
lis pendulus fenuissimus amoene aureo-rufescens rigidis- 
simus geniculato - flexuosus, valde divisus; divisiones lon- 
gissimae tenuissimae, rigidissimae, ramulis tenuissimis 
breviusculis horizontalibus v. reflexis rigidissimis alternis 
remotis ubique insertis veluti pinnatis, fructibus termina- 
libus immersis turgidis apice turgide comosis et pulcher- 
rime aureis; folia caulina appressa, humore eleganter 
plumulose patula, e basi longe anguste decurrente angu- 
ste lanceolato -acuminata stricta, concava, integerrima, 
aureo- fusca , nervo subvalido intensius colorato in cuspi- 
deni rigidam producto pungentia, cellulis ellipticis confla- 
tis aureis, alaribus marginis basi late revoluti minute in- 
crassate quadratis; perich. e basi angustiore late squa- 
maeformi - ovata, longissime fusco-pilifera, caviuscula 
sublaxius reticulata, nervo tenui subobsoleto excurrente ; 
theca perfecte inclusa parva globoso-ovata, operc. conico 
acuminato recto, calyptra parva laevi, annulo simplici 
operculo adhaerente; perist. d. ext. breves leptodermes 
laeves pallide lutei lanceolati, linea media notati, int. 
multo breviores crenulato-rugulosi tenues. 
Cruphaea (Dendropogon) rufescens C. Müll. Linn, XVIII. p. 
682. —  Dendropogon rufescens Schimp. Bot. Zeit. 1843. p. 377. 
tab. 1. 
Patria. Mexico, pr. Oaxaca: Karwinski, in locis 
non designatis copiosissime legit C. Ehren berg. 
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