1412 STEGOCARPI. ACROCARPI.  MACROMITRIUM. 
8 plicata pallide fusca leptodermis, calyptra anguste co- 
nica sordide straminea, busi parum laciniata truncata 
theca breviore appresso - pilosa, operc. recte aciculari; 
perist. simplicis dentes solitarii latiuscule lanceolati ob- 
tusi ruguloso - albidi. 
Patria. Brasilia, ubi ad vicum Novo - Friburgum pri- 
mus legit Beyrich mens. Decbr. Serra dos Orgaós: 
Gardner No. 54. Insula St. Catharina: Pabst, Juu. 
et Julio 1847. 
Flos masc. ad basin rami fertilis minutus, fol. perig. 
parvis late ovatis subligulatis. 
47. M. macrofthele C. Müll. (Bot. Zeit. 1848. p. 766.) ; 
dioicum; late dense pulvinatum tenellum densifolium ru- 
biginosum, apice solo luteo- viride, repens, ramis humi- 
libus subsimplicibus; folia dense crispula, madore erecto- 
patentia, angustissime lanceolato - acuminata , nervo exce- 
dente longiuscule mucronata apice erecto - curvata, cana- 
liculata, alis planiusculis, cellulis grossiuscule hexagone 
rotundatis, ob papillas granulosas opacis, basi majoribus 
rectangularibus angustis incrassatis ob papillas solitarias 
verruciformes mammillate tuberculosis; perich. brevia, late 
lanceolata acuminata, cellulis grossiuscule ellipticis; theca 
in ped. brevi minute pyriformi -oblonga sublongicolla pro- 
funde sulcata brunnescens, operc. recte subulato, calyptra 
nuda; perist. duplex, externum: dentes arctissime appro- 
ximati, in membranam veluti conflati aurantiaci, internum: 
membrana rugulosa albida altiuscula, in dentes irregula- 
res fugacissimos fissa. 
Patria. Columbia, Galipan prov. Caracas, alt. 5000: 
Funck et Schlim in Coll. Linden. No. 364, in lapidi- 
bus humidis.  Varietatem fol. magis flexuosis ad trune. 
- arbor. prope Lagunitta prov. Meridae alt. 6000, Septbr. 
lect. sub No. 993 accepimus. 
Notis cursive impressis species tenella facile cognos- 
cenda. 
B. Folia reflexa. 
48. M. longicaule C. Müll.; dioicum ; longicaule 
parce divisum luteo - virens, «equaliter gracile; folia cau 
