96 ARCHI-LEJEUNEA. 
F 10x °75, ‘9x °65; lob’4x°4;¢ 35; br 75; br'* 6x°4; per 10x°6; cal 
pat 
Pusilla virescens, siccando flavida raro rufula. Caules e candice repente 
suberecti 1-14 pollices longi parce (raro symmetrice) bipinnati, 
ramique primarii iteratim innovando-proliferi, monotropi—raro 
primum dichotomi, florescentia maxima, ¢ vel @, in axilla, brachiis 
monotropis. 
Folia subimbricata subplana, oblique oblonga ovatove-oblonga, szepe fal- 
cata, obtusata rotundatave, medium versus sinuato-complicata ; 
lobulus 4 folium fere eequans ovalis, in situ tam convoluto-inflatus 
ut fere linearis videatur, apice incurvo-bidentatus, dente supero lon- 
giore subulato, vel (in var.) muticus; cellule parvule pellucide, 
pariete ad angulos incrassato, chlorophyllo parco, inferiores sensim 
muinores. . 
Foliola foliis plus duplo breviora dissita subrotunda, interdum retusula, 
plus minus recurva vel etiam squarrosa. 
Flores monoici: Q creberrimi ad ramos innovando-proliferos terminales, 
quasi seriatim secundi. Bracteee foliis subbreviores ligulato-oblongee 
obtuse, lobulo longe minore plano apice sublingulato, interdum ad 
dentem oblique triangularem acutum redacto ; bracteola ovalis apice 
repandula. 
Perianthia foliis subequilonga, pyriformia subcompressa longe rostellata 
alte 5-carinata, carinis levissimis vel rarissime rudimentarie alatis, 
antica humiliore, demum apice 4-fida, valvulis cuspidatis. Calyptra 
paulo brevior pyriformis, brevistipitata, tenuis (solum ipsa basi 
cellulis bistratis conflata), demum apice equaliter trivalvis, longistyla. 
Pedicellus paulo exsertus, siccando obscure noduloso-constrictus 
haud geniculatus. Capsula globosa albida profunde 4-fida, valvis 
recurvis ; elateres pauci longiusculi prope valvularum apicem, juxta 
margines preecipue, inserti. 
Andreecia vel terminalia vel ad caulem inferiorem lateralia, longispica 
julacea; bracteze plurijugze foliis caulinis sensim subminores, laxius- 
cule complicato-turgide, breviter bifidee, lobo superiore paulo majore. 
Var. «. monotropa, caule apice simplice—rarissime furcato—flore 9 magno 
terminal, ceeteris floribus 2 ad ramos innovando-monotropos, fl. ¢ in 
jisdem ramis terminalibus ; foliorum lobulo apice bidentato—raro 
unidentato muticove.—Perianthia ad ramorum innovationes interdum 
tam numerosa quam foliorum juga, seepe autem dimidio solum 
numero sunt.*.—Tarapoto, ad frutices secus rivulos ; Caripi, prope 
Para, ad arbores pomiferas.— 
Var. f. calliandra, caule elatiore, apice furcato-cymoso, spica mascula 
maxima erecta in furca; foliis magis falcatis, lobulo apice in folium 
transeunte sine ullo dente terminali; perianthiis elongatis tenui- 
pyriformibus.—Prope Guayaquil, ad fluvios Ventanas et Daule, in 
cortice. 
* Capsula hujus var. in notulis meis sic descripta est. Valvule } capsule 
semicircumiferentie sequantes, lanceolate recurvule. Cellule strati exterioris 
tesselate, subrhombee, parietibus valvule marginibus subparallelis (nisi mar- 
ginales minores subquadrate) ad angulos columnis validis fulcitis, membrana 
secundaria valde sinuosa; cellule interiores subequimagne crebre papillose, 
papillis plurimis brevibus, aliis autem in pilum fere elongatis. Elateres pauci, 
subapicales, valvulis subequilongi, angusti, apice in annulum obtuse quad- 
ratum dilatati, helice simplice pertenui arctiuscule contorta. Spore magne 
tuberculose, 
