452 STEGOCARPI. ACROCARPI. SCHLOTHEIMIA. 
lata, profunde canaliculata, margine hic illic vix revoluto, 
cellulis amoene fuscis, ubique conflato -incrassatis rhom- 
boidaliter quadratis minutis; perich. latiora magis conca- 
và; theca in ped. tenuissimo longo, innovationes supe- 
rante v. occulto, inter furcam innovationum posito minute 
obovata fusca, sicca plicata, braehydonta, calyptra parva, 
basi tumida, appendicibus 4 brevibus latis, intense fusca, 
nitida, laevissima. 
Schloth. squarrosa Schw. Suppl. I. IL. p. 39. t. 56? — Ortho- 
trich. squarrosum Hook. et Grev. Brewster Edinb. Journ. I. p. 128. 
Patria. Ynsula Bourbonis: Hb. Montagn. 
Ab omnibus congeneribus teneritate partium omnium 
primo adspectu differt et Macromitr. filiformi haud dis- 
similis, 
Sectio II... Aeuminella. Caulis robustus densifolius, foliis 
appressis in spiram contortis lanceolato - acuminatis, v. cuspidatis 
laevibus vel corrugatis. 
à. Theca immersa. 
2. S. tecta Hook. et Wills. (Lond. Journ. of bot. 
1844. p. 157.); dioica; elatiuscula subrobusta, ramis bre- 
vibus dichotomis strictis, ubique ferruginea, inferne nuda; 
folia caulina dense imbricata leviter spiraliter torta, ma- 
dore patentia, lanceolato -acuminata, latiuscula, compli- 
cate concava, margine hic illic parum revoluto, apice 
breviter dentato, cellulis basi angustis longis rectangula- 
ribus, superne sensim rotundatis, ubique incrassatis, ex- 
currentinervia; perich. in cuspidem elongatam crassam 
flexuosam producta; theca immersa majuscule ovalis lae- 
vis, dentibus ext. et int. longiuseulis, his angustis palli- 
dis rugulosis subbifidis, calyptra magna firma intense 
fusca, apice scaberrima. 
Schloth. immersa C. Müll. Bot. Zeit. 1844. p. 740. — Macro- 
mitr. inmersum C. Müll. Bot. Zeit. 1845, p. 542. 
Patria, / Brasilia, . Serra dos Orgáos: Gardner 
No. 71. 
E. pulcherrimis et. distinctissimis. 
