184 ON ANOMOCLADA. 



media, radicelliferos (flagella) e postica, proferentes. Folia 

 magna, succuba, basi obli(|ua insertu, assurgeutia, apice decurva, 

 subtus crispula, Integra, cclluloso-orosula ; cellula; mediocres 

 pellucidaj incrassatfe. Foliola ubiqiie prresentia parvula integm 

 in mucura plus minus dissoluta. Flores dioici : y ramulo brevi 

 proprio antico constantes ; bractece tristichie, trijuga;, bifidae, tres 

 intima; basi perianthio leviter adnatoe, dua; anticre connatae. 

 Pidillidia circiter 20. Perianthia magna angusto fusitbrmia 

 trigona, ore subincisa. Calyptra parva tenuis. Capaula magna, 

 valida, ab ipsa basi 4-valvis. Elateres elongati subattenuati 

 bispiri decidui. Sporre minutissimai. Flores masculi ignoti. 

 Anomoclada ab Odontoschismate, genere proximo, caractoribus sequen- 

 tibus diftert : 



In Anomoclada, In Odo7itoschismate, 



Jtami radicelliferi postici, foliosi Rami omnes — foliosi, floriferi at 



tamen florif'erique e facie radicelliferi — e facie caulis 



cuulis antica orti ; postica orti ; 



Folia convexa, insignitor crispata, Folia concava, baud crispata, 



cellulis pellucidis ; I cellulis ex endochroinio co- 



! piosiore subopacis ; 



i?r«c/^« tres intimje basi ipsissi ma ' Bractem inter se necnoa a perian- 



perianthio adnata), earum thio libera?. 



dua? antico-laterales altius- [ 



cule connatoe. I 



1. Ano.uoclada mucosa, Spruce. 



Hah. in sylvis fluviorum Negro, Uaupes, Casiquiari et Atabapo pri- 

 mccvis, ad truncos prostrates putrescentes, soepe aliis Ilepaticis 

 Muscisquc irrepentes. 



*rolia 1*5 X 1-3, 2-0 x 1*5 ; cellula) '« ; foliola -25 longa ; bractea) in- 

 terna; l-lxO-4, 1-6X0-5; perianthia 40x0o; calyptra 

 l"lxO"G; stylus 2 ; ca^sula I'l x 0'5 ; pedicelli sectio -35 x '3 ; 

 elateres '4 ; spora) ife mm. 



Ccespites lati depressi, albido-virides vol flavesccntes, semper liquoro 

 mucoso suffusi. Caules 1-3-pollicares albidi tenaces teretes, 

 cellulis pluristratis opacis, corticalibus ceteris vix paulo latioribus, 

 conflati ; basi brevi spatio radicellis flagellisque rliizophoris re- 

 pentes, foliis marcidis vestiti vel subnudi ; dein a matrice liberi, 

 arcuantes, densifolii, subtus radicelliferi nudive, statim devexi 



* I prefer to preface my description of the species by the dimensions of the 

 parts in millimetres, huving found by experience how greatly it aids a thorough 

 com prehension of the characters. 



Magnitudo cellularum, omnibus Ilepaticis mihi cognitis sedulo comparatis, ad 

 himc niodum ;pstimanda : 



Cellulao magnic iV, ram. diaraetro. 



,, majusculiK ^s mm. ,, 



,, mediocres ^ mm. ,, 



,, piirvuke ^ n^m. ,, 



„ parva^ i;^ mm. ,, 



„ minutuhe ^ mm. ,, 



,, minuta; ^{^ mm. ,, 



f, nnn utissini.'p ^if, — i,Yf mm. ,, 



