- Srrcro-LEJEUNEA. ; 83 
Perianthia foliis rameis submajora caulinis vix «quimagna urniformia 
valde compressa, apice profunde obcordato-biloba, rostello perbrevi 
in sinu, lobis in auriculas spatulato-rotundas reniformesve, planas 
sed non alatas, albo-marginatas dilatatis, postice carina parum ele- 
vata percursa. Calyptra pyriformis tenuis, cellulis unistratis con- 
flata, ad perianthii sinum attingens, demumn inequaliter trifida. 
Capsula globosa (emersa mihi non visa). _ 
Piante ¢ cum @ mixtie, paulo tenuiores magisque ramos. Amenta 
ramulum totum, v. rami primarii.apicem tenentia. Bractez sub 10- 
jugee, foliis duplo minores, julaceo-subimbricatze, eymbiformi-com- 
plicatee, obtuse, ad } fissee, equilobe, antheridia bina foventes. 
Adest bracteola obovata duabus bracteis infimis adscripta, bractez 
autem superiores bracteolis omnino carent. 
Obs. Folia ad 4-4 lat. imbricata, tenuia et quasi vitrea, subopaca tamen, 
apice albido-scariosa. Rami seepe tam conferti ut folia ramorum vicinorum 
contigua vy. subimbricata fiunt. Caules tenaces rufescentes subcompresso- 
teretes, cellulas sub 12 in sectionis diametro monstrantes; cellule sub- 
conformes elongatie, corticales coloratee opacee magis chlorophyllosex, 
interiores pellucide. 
The normal arrangement of the 2 flowers is as follows:—From the 
outer base of the lowest leaf in the interval between two consecutive 
branches on the same side of the stem springs a 9 branch, abbreviated 
to a single pair of minute leaves and their accompanying foliole—all of 
which are suborbicular and entire—below the involucre. Adnate to the 
inner and larger bract, and diverging at a small angle from the axis of 
the 9 flower, grows out a slender innovation, bearing usually only 5 
pairs of ‘small leaves, but sometimes more elongate. 
The form above-described, which 1 consider the perfect state of the 
plant, is the var. y Neesii of G. L. et N. in Syn. Hep. Their var. & is the 
following :— 
Var. macrior (= « Willdenoviana et «* ocellulata Syn. Hep.) differt a 
typo statura minore; caule minus regulariter pinnato; ramis sepe 
plurimis consecutivis abbreviatis floriferisque; foliis etc. minoribus, 
caulinis fere elobulatis, lobulo rameorum magis distincto, in situ 
corniformi, arte explanato quadrato-rotundo.—Hab. prope Pard et 
act fl. Negro superiorem. 
2. Sticto-LEJEUNEA KunzEANA, Gottsche. Tas. III. 
L, squamata W. 8B Kunzeana G. in Syn. Hep. 322. 
Hab. in M. Chimborazo radicibus occidentalibus, e ramis pendula, alt. 
1000m.—In Peruvia et Chili legit. cl. Pépric. 
#13x°8; lob 15; cA; f*% 8x1:1-12; per 15x1-2™™. 
AS. L. squamata, valde affini, diversa videtur caracteribus sequentibus. 
Elatior, 6-9 pollicaris, e pallide viridi fulva. Caules, e caudice repente 
subdiviso, a matrice liberi, nigri, in planum ramosi, bipinnati, ramis 
ramulisque dissitis frondem laxam nec plumeformem efformantes. 
Folia parum (ad }-3 lat. solum) imbricata, oblonga (nec ovata) basi antica 
alte semicordata; lobulus convolutus lageniformis, deflexus, cauli 
contiguus parallelusque (ad Frullanie replicate instar). [Lobulus 
L. squamate decurvus est, sed a linea horizontali parum divergit 
