- 
910 STEGOCARPI. PLEUROCARPI. HOOKERIA. 
oblongo -subclavata; perist. externi dentes linea media 
angusta diaphana notati, interni solidi subulato - capillares 
` carinati. ` 
Patria. Brasilia, in sylvis prov. Paraënsis, et ad 
ripas fl. Amazonum: Martius. 
Sterilem solam vidimus. 
. 48. M. pilifera Hook. et Wils. (Lond. Journ. of bot. 
1844. p. 160.); vage ramosa, breviter et subflexuose ra- 
mulosa, pallide viridis, vix «compressa, crassior; folia 
sicca et madefacta dense conferta, longiuscule oblonga, 
acumine basi latiusculo, superne tenuissimo, flexuoso ser- 
rulato longissimo terminata subpilifera , flaccida pla- 
niuscula, margine superne tenuissime denticulato erecto, 
tenerrime membranacea, cellulis angustissimis ob papillas 
punctulato-scabris , basi laxioribus pellucidis longis, ner- 
vis ante apicem folii abruptis, dorso apicis dentatis, pal- 
lidis, interdum fuscidulis; perich. longius acuminata; theca 
in ped. elongato laevi subovata cernua, calyptra laevi. 
Patria. Brasilia, Serra dos Orgaós: Gardner 1837. 
No. 89. ; 
Caracteribus explicatis ab H. filiformi longe recedit 
et H. pallescenti statura magis affinis. 
B. Folia integerrima, 
49. H. pendula Hook. (Musc. Exot. t. 53.); dioica? 
decumbens valde fasciculate irregulariter ramosa robusta 
latiuscule complanata virescens, dein rufescens, depressa; 
veluti distincte bifaria; folia caulina conferta, superiora 
appressa, latiuscule oblongo - acuminata obtusiuscule con- 
cava, integerrima, rarius apice minute erosa, valde pal- 
lida, nervis dimidio folio paullum longioribus | albidis, 
dein flavescentibus, tenuissimis, cellulis minutis densis 
oblongis, chlorophyllo punctatis; fol. perich. ex ovata basi 
angustissime et longissime acuminata, cellulis linearibus, 
nervis nullis; theca in ped. elongato crasso laevi pen- 
dula, magna turgide oblonga fusca, operc. conico subulato 
dimidio breviori, calyptra multotis fissa, paraphysibus te- 
