424 I. DiscoLiCHENES (Wainio). [Lecidea 



cante, nudo, opaco, margine tenui, disco concolore, persistente. 

 Excipulum dilute pallidum, in margine extus violaceo-rufescens. 

 Hypothecium pallidum. Hymenium jodo persistenter cserulescens. 

 Epithecium violaceo-rufescens. Paraphyses arete cohserenta<5, 

 tenues, baud connexa?. Asci davati. Sporse 8nje, disticha?,^ 

 simplices, decolores, ellipsoidese, long. O'OOO ad 0-013, crass. 

 0-006 ad 0-007 mm. Affinis pvfecedenti. 



GoLUNGO Alt(i. — Ad truncos arboris Artocarpeae in sylvis primitivis 

 prope Sange. No. 172/-'. 



18. L. canorubella Wain., Etud. Licb. Bres. ii. p. 51. 

 Hypotbecium fusco-fuligineum. Excipuhim extus pallidum. 



Apotbecia sordide fusco-testacea, margine fere concolore. Sporaj 

 long. 0009 ad 0-012, crass. 0005 ad 0-008 mm. 



GoLUxao Alto. — Ad corticem arboris Artocarpeaj in sylvis prope 

 Sange. No. 171. 



19. L. caliginosa Stirt. L. fuscorubescens Nyl., Licb. Andam. 

 (1874), p. 10; Gromb., Licb. Cball. p. 216, baud Nyl., Licb. 

 Port-Nat. (18G8), p. 8. 



Var. rhacocarpa Wain. Apotbecia aggregato-prolifera aut 

 ambitu lobata aut pro minore parte simplicia, 05 ad 1-2 mm. 

 lata, disco testaceo, piano aut convexiusculo, margine tenui, 

 nigricante, persistente. Hypotbecium fuscofuligineum, excipulum 

 extus pallidum. Hymenium totum decoloratum, jodo persistenter 

 cterulescens. Parapbyses arete cobsex'entes, in KHO sat laxse, 

 baud connexse. Sporte 8nae, disticlije, simplices, decolores, long. 

 0-009 ad 0-012, crass. 0-006 ad 0-008 mm. Tballus sat tenuis 

 aut mediocris, rimulosus, superficie leviter in?equali, parcissime 

 granulosa, glaucescens, bypotballo crebre contexto nigricante 

 angusto passim limitatus. 



GoLuxGo Alto. — Ad truncos Diosjiijri in Serra de Alta Queta. 

 No. 170. 



20. L. granifera Acb., Syn. Licb. (1814), p. 163 (secund. herb. 

 Acb.). L. aurlgera Fee, Ess. Crypt. Ecorc. (1824), p. 106, 

 Wain., Etud. Licb. Bres. II. p. 54. 



Var. lecanoroides Wain. Verrucse thalli intus stramineo-albidse. 

 Apotbecia disco nigricante aut f usco, margine albido aut cinereo- 

 albicante, integro. 



GoLUNOO Alto (1000 ad 2400 ped. s. m.). — Ad truncos vigentes in 

 sylvis primaevis in Serra de Alta Queta (No. 145), et inter Sange et 

 trombeta (No. 155). 



Var. leucotropoides Wain. Verrucaa tballi intus stramineo- 

 albidse. Apotbecia disco testaceo, margine albido aut cinerascente 

 aut cii-ca bymenium nigro, subintegro. 



Sierra Le<jne. — Ad truncos arborum {Spondhtii) prope Freetown. 

 No. 166. 



21. L. Mossamedana Wain., sp. n. 



Tballus crustaceus, sat tenuis aut mediocris, venuculis circ. 

 0-2 mm. latis aut parcius etiam vemicis areolisve iiregularibus 



