Harpa-LEJEUNEA. V7 
sinuato-complicata; lobulus subtriplo brevior saccato-decurrens sub- 
ovatus convolutus, apice occulto; cellule subparvee pellucide, infe- 
riores sensim majores. 
Foliola foliis 4-plo minora cuneato-obovata vix ad medium usque bifida, 
segmentis obtusis patulis. 
Flores monoici; 9 in ramo brevissimo terminales, innovatione simplice 
suffulti. Bracteze foliis minores, oblique obovato-lanceolatze acute, 
ad medium bifidee, lobulo angusto lineari; bracteola foliolis duplo 
major, cuneato-ligulata vix ad medium bifida, seementis subobtusis. 
Perianthia alte emersa, foliis caulinis dimidio longiora, clavata, brevi- 
rostria compressula anguste 5-carinata, carinis papuloso-scaberulis, 
aliquando (nec constanter) apice pauci-spinulosis. 
Andreecia ramulo brevi cauligeno, folio subsequilongo, constantia, ovato- 
oblonga; bracteze parvule sub 4-jugee. 
A L. galeata, S.—seepe in eodem ceespite vigente—distincta florescentia 
monoica; foliis acute subacuminatis subcrenulatis, et perianthiis apice 
scabris spinulosisve. 
16. HARPA-LEJEUNEA SPINULIFLORA, Spruce. 
In fluvii Casiquiari ripis, supra Lejeuneas (L. Sagreanam aliasque) in 
cortice repens. 
sae ax VO, Cae: fF 05; br? 3 x"1; per 6 x 25mm 
Pusilla pallide fuscidula. Caules 3-pollicares filiformes parce et subpin- 
natim ramosi, aliis ramis elongatis. 
Folia longe distantia, angulo 70° patentia, subplana, oblique oblonga 
obovatave plerumque rotundata, basi obsoletissime complicata; cel- 
lule parvulee pellucidz subconformes. 
Foliola minutissima, foliis 6-7-plo breviora, latitudine caulem haud ex- 
cedentia, oblonga, ad $ bifida, segmentis late subulatis (3 cellulas 
longis basique latis). 
Flores dioici (?}—@ in ramo brevi terminales, innovatione suffulti. 
Bracteze foliis subzequales, oblique obovato-lanceolate vix ad medium 
bifidee, parvilobulate ; bracteola oblongo-ligulata breviter bifida, 
sinu segmentisque acutis. 
Perianthia bracteis dimidio longiora, pyriformia rotundata subretusave 
rostellata, antice 1-carinulata, postice 2-carinata, margine carinisque 
spinoso-cristata, spinis hamatis 3-4 cellulas longis, basi 1-2 cell. 
latis, valde decidius. 
Andreecia haud visa. 
Obs. Inter congeneres paulo aberrans est, e foliis planis rotundatis; 
perianthiis spinosis autem Harpa-L. blepharogone aliisque plane ac- 
cedit. 
17. Harpa-LEJEUNEA ACANTHOGONA, Spruce. 
Hab. In M. Tunguragua, supra truncos putrescentes. 
F 6 x °35; lob 1; c. medi@ gos; f'* 08; br -3; br'*-3 x 15; per “75 x 35 
(spints inclusis)™™. 
Pusilla, olivaceo-viridis, prostrata, intricata. Caules 2-3™ longi flexuosi 
laxe cellulosi, tenaces tamen, laxe pinnati, pinnis subsimplicibus. 
Folia subcontigua, e basi brevi saccaté semierecta subdivergentia, decurvo- 
concava, alia planiuscula, late oblique semicordato-ovata subtri- 
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