222 TAXI-LEJEUNEA. 
Flores monoici; @ ad ramulos microphyllos seriatim secundi, pauci 
(1-3) ad quemque ramulum. Bractez foliis dimidio breviores erecté 
oblong vel semiobovate apiculate obtuszeve, lobulo nullo vel 
minutissimo; bracteola obovata emarginato-bifida. 
Perianthia subemersa obconica clavatave minute rostellata, alte 5- 
carinata, carinis papulosis; primum ab ipsa basi carinata, demum 
turgescentia fere teretia, solum apicem versus 5-carinata, carinis 
apice rotundatis nec prominulis. 
Amenta ¢ lateralia, folio caulino collaterali breviora, oblongo-rotunda, 
bracteis 3-jugis majusculis, vel longiora, bracteis 5-jugis. 
Foliis, bracteis bracteolisque, omnibus integerrimis, a plerisque Tas- 
Lejeuneis diftert. 
11. TaxI-LEJEUNEA ASTHENICA, Spruce. 
Hab. S. Carlos del Rio Negro, in “ caatingas,” ad arborum truncos ramos- 
que; Tarapoto, secus rivulos, supra alias hepaticas repens, alt 
600™. 
Fe8x°8, “75x 68, ¢ fy; f™ 3x35, *2x-2, 15x15; br “7x35 per 
O94, *7 x Bee. 
Pallida pellucida flaccida, repens, ex parte pendula. Caules 1-3-polli- 
cares tenuissimi pinnatim ramosi, ramis pro more brevibus. 
Folia contigua vel paulo imbricata, angulo 70° patentia, plana vel de- 
euryo-secunda, longitudinaliter inserta, late semicordato-ovata apice 
decurvo acuminulata acuta vel sepius 2-3-dentata, basi obsolete 
lobulata; cellule: mediocres pellucidze subconformes. 
Foliola inferiora parva distantia, foliis 5-plo minora, superiora solum 
24-plo minora, cordato-orbiculata, ad medium fere bifida, sinu seg- 
mentisque acutis. 
Flores monoici: 2 in ramis ramulisque homotropo-innovandis seriatim 
secundi. Bracteze foliis subminores oblongo-lanceolatz, apice trifidee 
vel subspinulose, basi lobulo minuto inflexo digitiformi aucte; 
bracteola oblonga ad 4 bifida paucidentata. 
Perianthia subemersa subcylindrica vel anguste obconico-pyriformia, 
medio supero 5-carinata, carinis minus altis apice rotundato-subpro- 
minulis, minute rostellata. 
Andreecia folio caulino longe breviora; bracteee minutw sub 3-jugee. 
12. Taxi-LEJEUNEA BoMBONASENSIS, Spruce. 
Hab. Ad pedem Andium Quitensium, secus fluvium Bombonasa, in cor- 
tice. 
F 9x9; ¢ py; fit 4x °4; br 8; br’* "75 x °35; per 65-75 x “3m™. 
Late laxe repens, tenella virescens. Caules bipollicares tenues bipinnati; 
rami invequilongi seepe florescentiis Q et ¢ pinnulati. 
Folia contigua vel subdissita, fere longitudinaliter inserta subplana, late 
suboblique semicordato-ovata, subacuta obtusave, alia leviter acumi- 
nata, basi postica lenissime incurva vel omnino eplicata; cellule 
mediocres eequilaterze subpellucide. 
Poliola distantia, foliis plus duplo minora, orbiculata ultra medium bifida, 
segmentis subacutis. 
Flores monoici: 9 ad ramos ramulosque abbreviatos terminales, basi 
innoyationem plus minus iteratim floriferam proferentes (unde 
