206 CERATO-LEJEUNEA, 
F 65 x ‘5, lob *125, c Ass; f'* 3 x °4,°35 x 45, -4 x °55 (in var.); br 55; 
br? “b X40 per LO Kae: 
Rufo-badia late prostrato-stratificata. Caules 2-3 pollicares vage ramosi, 
in parte inferiore amentis ¢ sepe pinnulati. 
Folia subimbricata patula semicordato-oblonga, apice decurvo subobliquo 
rotundata obtusatave, integerrima, basi subrecte complicata; lobulus 
5-plo brevior ovatus inflatus; cellule parve pellucide, parietibus 
fuscidulis, Utriculi nulli vel perrari. 
Foliola dissita vel contigua, foliis duplo breviora (in ramis fertilibus seepe 
4-plo breviora) cordato-orbiculata, paulo latiora quam longa, ad vel 
paulo ultra + fissa, segmentis erectis acutis. 
Flores monoici: 9 in ramo brevi terminales, innovatione simplice, raro 
prolifera, suffulti: rarissime e dichotomia. Bracteze foliis minores 
ultra medium bifida, lobo oblique obovato lanceolatove subacuto, 
lobulo rhomboideo; bracteola ovali-orbiculata ad 4 bifida, segmentis 
acutis seepe imbricatis; omnes repandule integerrime. 
Perianthia altiuscule emersa, foliis dimidio longiora, clavato-oblonga 
pyriformiave, supra medium 4-carinata, carinis apice vel recte trun- 
catis vel seepius in cornua rudimentaria horizontalia triangularia 
dilatatis. 
Amenta ¢ crebra cauligena, folium vicinum paulo superantia; bractese 
sub 5-jugee mediocres. 
Obs. In iisdem locis advenit altera forma, megalostipa, foliolis folia fere 
equantibus; foliis apice valde decurvo-concavis, interdum apice subden- 
ticulatis; perianthiis apice lato recte truncatis ecornibus, vel carinis later- 
alibus brevissime cornutis. 
In Syn. Hep. 1. ¢. perianthia (probabiliter juvenilia) ‘ ventricosa ” 
descripta sunt. 
10. CERATO-LEJEUNEA VARIABILIS, Lindenb. Syn. Hep. 399. 
Hab. In sylva Amazonica tota, preecipue juxta fl. Negro ripas, in arborum 
truncis, ramis, foliis, necnon in radicibus inundatis, etiam in filicibus 
etc., in saxis et in truncis putridis rarior; in Andibus vix ad alt. 
1000m. attingit. 
F 85x65, ‘8x ‘6; lob ‘1-125; ¢ a; f* 5x °6, °45x'5 3. br "5s per 
1°2x°45 3 cornua °254™m, 
Majuscula rufo-badia, seepe sublurida, raro nigrescens, pro more dense 
stratificata. Caules 14-3-pollicares prostrati insequaliter pinnati et 
subbipinnati. 
Folia imbricata late semicordato-ovata, interdum ovato-oblonga, apice 
decurvo abrupte acuta—v. inferiora rotundata—repandula integer- 
rima; lobulus minutus folio 6-8-plo minor inflatus; cellule sub- 
parvulz eequilaterze pellucide, inferiores sensim majores, ocello nullo. 
Utriculi adsunt. 
Foliola inferiora parva dissita, superiora increscentia subimbricata dimi- 
dium folium plus minus superantia, cordato-ovata, seepius oblata, ad 
} acute bifida, segmentis acutis. 
Flores monoici: Q in ramo terminales, innovatione unilaterali—raro 
duabus oppositis—suffulti. Bracteze foliis sat breviores profunde 
complicato-bifidee denticulate, raro subintegerrime, lobis subacutis, 
inferiore fere duplo breviore; bracteola ovalis v. fere orbiculata ad 4 
bifida, segmentis acuminulatis, interdum serrulata. 
