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2. Harpa-LEesEuNEA CincHon#, Nees. Syn. Hep. 342. 
Hab. In M. Tunguragua, alt. 2000-2500m., corticola. In cortice Peru- 
viano (Pauckert in hb. Hampe). 
F ‘4x28 (sine lobulo) x ‘35 (cum lob.) ; lob 15; ¢ dy; f™ 08x12; 
br (lob) *8 x °4; br'* 5x °35 per 1:2 x -5™™, 
Pusilla pallida dense stratificata subcaespitosaque. Caules pollicares, basi 
subdenudata repentes, dein arcuato-assurgentes, foliosi, vage ramosi 
seepe decompositi, ramis tamen paucis, dissitis, aliis dichotomis. 
1 olia laxe imbricata, basi assurgentia, apice devexa, sacculo basali ademto 
semiovalia v. semicircularia, subacuta vel seepius obtusa, margine 
antico rotundato basi semicordato, postico ab apice fere ad % long. 
usque recto horizontali, dein valde sinuato et in sacculum ovato- 
fusiformem, apice brevi (lobulo vero) acuto occulto patenteve, con- 
voluto ; cellule parvee pellucide guttulate subincrassate plane, 
chlorophyllo in sieco annulari. 
Foliola distantia, foliis 5-plo minora, subplana, late cuneato-obovata 
reniformiave (latiora quam longa) late retuso-emarginata, angulis 
rotundatis. 
Flores dioici: in ramorum dichotomiis, raro innovatione solitaria suf- 
fulti. Bracteze maxims, foliis 2-plo majores, erect, dimudiato- 
ovales, altera acuta altera obtusa, ad $ complicato-bilobe, ad plicam 
anguste alate, lobulo } breviore angustioreque rotundato szepe mar- 
ginato; bracteola bracteis longe brevior obovato-oblonga rotundato- 
truncata repandula subplana. 
Perianthia emersa, f. caulinis 3-plo longiora pyriformia, v. fusiformia 
(basi attenuata), ab ipsa basi argute pentagona—vel potius pentap- 
tera—angulis alé angust&é 2. crass limbatis, apiceque spinis 2 v. 
3 subulatis recurvulis (cornua simulantibus) armatis. Calyptra 
magna tenuis. 
Planta pulchella, ex habitu et floribus dichotomialibus ad Hygro- 
Lejeuneam catinuliferam plane accedens, ceteris caracteribus valde 
diversa. 
3. HAarpA-LEJEUNEA ANCISTRODES, Spruce. (Tas. V.) 
Hab. Quisapincha, prope Ambato; etiam super montem Tunguragua, 
alt. 3000™., in arboribus vetustis, supra Lejeuneam catinuliferam 
repeus. 
Wa xcco0, 100 “2, ¢ A> f'* 2x23) br lob “9x5; br “Tox; per 
ee as 
Pusilla pallide viridis fragilis flaccida; caules {-pollicares prostrati pin- 
natim subramosi, ramis ¢ furcatis. 
Folia tenerrima pellucida imbricata, falcato-divergentia, oblique ovali- 
lanceolata acuminata acuta, acumine decuryo-uncinato, caulem antice 
late transeuntia, integerrima vix obscure celluloso-crenulata, valde 
sinuato-complicata; lobulus $ folium fere equans, anguste ovatus 
inflatus acutus, apice tamen seepissime involuto; cellule parvule 
leptodermes, chlorophyllo parco in annulum congesto, paucee (4-6) 
basin versus duplo majores vacue in ocellum plerumque aggregate. 
Foliola subcontigua dissitave, foliis 2}-plo breviora, late obcordato-cuneata, 
subcarinata, sinu lato lunulari, angulis obtusatis. 
TRANS. BOT. SOC, EDIN. VOL, XV. Mi 
