HYPNOIDEAE. mvPwUw. 243 
disticha ovato = lanceolata acuta argute serrata, | nervis 
infra medium dissolutis, omnia pallide viridia, e cellulis 
linearibus laxiusculis areolata; perich. ovate lanceolata 
acuminata, intima in acumen subulatum flexuosum pro- 
ducta, hyalina, laxius reticulata; theca in ped. purpureo 
tortili laevi longiusculo apice curvato horizontalis, oblonga 
aequalis, badia; perist. d. int. perforati lanceolato -subu- 
lati lutescentes, ciliis binis hyalinis subulatis articulatis 
interjectis. 1. 
Hookeria Sellovii Hsch. Fl. Bras. 1. p. 66. 
Patria. Brasilia: Sellow. 
H. hookerioidi maxime affine ab auctore declaratur, 
differt autem notis laudatis. 
Subsectio II. Huomalia. Caulis plus minus robustus, di- 
chotome divisus; folia plerumque angustius reticulata, symmetrica 
laevia, rarius secunda, 1 —2 nervia. 
Entodontes generis Neckerae optime referentes, et a 
Vesiculariis notis cursive impressis, a Taricaulibus sta- 
tura robusta distantes. 
I. Folia uninervia. 
a. Folia integra 
45. H. Berteroanum Mont. (Ann. d. sc. nat. 1845. 
4. p. 89.); dioicum; caulis laxissime cespitosus repens 
elongatus vage ramosus, ramis brevibus v. elongatis re- 
mõtis vix ramulosis flexuosis flaccidis anguste complana- 
tis sciuroideis lutescentibus nitidis; folia caulina amoene 
conferta, humore patula, e basi rotundate contractä late 
ovato- acuminata, acumine brevi, caviuscula estriata, mar- 
gine erecto infegerrimo , nervo tenui viridi ultra medium 
evanido, cellulis angustissime linearibus conflatis vix con- 
spicuis amoene lutescentibus, alaribus viz wllis quadratis 
ad basin infimam intraclam positis; perichaetialia exserta, 
longiuscule convolutacea, breviter acuminata, recta, ener- 
via, cellulis basi laxissimis, superne conflatis, omnibus 
tenerrimis pallidissimis; theca in ped. longiusculo rubro 
gracili laevi inclinata cernuo - ovalis, late annulata, opere. 
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