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13, CERATO-LEJEUNEA HYLOPHILA, Spruce. 
Hab. In sylva Amazonica haud infrequens, ad truncos vetustos et folia 
viva; Pardé ; lacum Quiriquiry fluvii Trombetas ; ad tluvios Negro et 
Uaupes, &e. 
(Trombetas). F' ‘5x +4; lob 1-08; c Ay; f'* 385 x °55; br 65; br'* “6x 
"4; per ‘9x 3-4; cornua °3™™, 
(Uaupes). F 8x °65, "7x °65; lob 1; ¢ gy; fie 5x6, °25x'2; br “75; 
Geib -6; per 1-1 x -6™™, 
Dense caspitoso-procumbens, ex olivaceo rufescens badiave. Caules 
1-1}-pollicares vage ramosi, interdum subdichotomi. 
Folia subimbricata subdivergentia decurvo-concava late semiovata (fere 
dimidiata, haud tamen falcata) apice obliquo rotundata—ramea 
superiora subacuta—integerrima, exocellata, valde sinuato-complicata; 
lobulus parvus, folio 5-8-plo brevior, saccatus, nunquam obsoletus; 
cellulz subparvee subpellucide. Utriculi nulli vel perrari. 
Foliola imbricata contiguave, foliis fere aquimagna—rarius 2-3-plo 
minora—latiora quam longa, cordato-reniformia, vel prelate cordato- 
ovata, basi profunde excisa, apice late rotundato ad }—+ bifida, seg- 
mentis contiguis acutis v. subobtusis, rima vix perceptibili: inferiora 
semper minora, superiora sensim increscentia, 
Flores dioici: 2 in ramo terminales, interdum dichotomiales, innovationi- 
bus simplicibus, vel altera iterum prolifero-dichotoma. Bracteze foliis 
sublongiores suberectze complicato-bipartitee apiculato-acutee—raro 
altera obtusa—subserrulatee, lobis lanceolatis, eequilongis, vel in- 
feriore breviore semperque angustiore ; bracteola ovalis vel fere 
rotunda, ad 1—} bifida, serrulata, segmentis apiculato-acutis. 
Perianthia foliis tere duplo longiora, obconico-cylindracea, 4~5-carinata, 
carinis papulosis in cornua sat elongata, pungentia vel subobtusa, 
erecta vel erecto-patentia protractis. 
Amenta ¢ cauligena, folium contiguum subsuperantia; bracteze sub 4- 
(raro ad 8-) juge majuscule galeiformes, apice subrostrate  bi- 
fideeque. 
Var. subdenticulata, foliis apice subacutis integerrimis v. rarius 2--3-den- 
ticulatis; foliolis subminoribus semper autem cordatis, perianthii 
cornibus interdum magis patentibus.—S. Carlos et S. Gabriel, in 
arborum foliis; Obidos et Panuré, in truncis. 
Probabiliter inter “ LZ. variabilis” formas a cl. auct. Synopseos Hep. 
inclusa, certe tamen diversa floresc. dioica, &e. L. cornuta Lindenb! e 
specim. ab ipso, monoica est, ideoque aliena. 
14, CeRaTO-LEJEUNEA MICRORHEGMA, Spruce. (Tas. VIII.) 
Hab. In sylva Canelos, e ramulis pendula, alt. 1000m. 
F 8x °65, ‘7x °6; lob 08-1; ¢ 3.4; f'* -95x°6, °75x°5; br. lob “75x 
45; br’* -6x°4; per 1:0 x4 (lat. infra cornua)™™. 
Elata, rufo-fusca nigricansve, flaccida. Caules 2-3-pollicares, fere nigri, 
paulo ramosi, ramis seepe brevibus. 
Folia subimbricata patentissima subfaleata, late oblique oblonga v. ovato- 
oblonga, basi truncato-semicordata, apice valide decurvo rotundato 
serrulata, decurrenti-lobulata; lobulus minutus plus minus tur- 
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