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226 Macro-LEJEUNEA. 
scattered along the stem and branches; they spread horizontally and 
distichously, and thus differ essentially from the multiflorous 9 
branches of Taxi-Lejeunea, 
2, Macro-LEJEUNEA SUESIMPLEX, Mont. 
Ann, des Sciences Nat, (1843). 
Hab. Andes Peruvianos, in mentibus Tarapotensibus, ad saxa. 
#65 x 55; lob +1; ¢ ay; f'* °55x°7; br 55; br -5 x -35™m, 
Prostrata substratificata, sordide flavida viridisve; canles 2-3-pollicares 
parum ramosi, flaccidi, ramique elongati, simplices v. floribus ? 
pinnulati, supra 3 cellulas lati, 
Folia subimbrieata, a basi brevi semierectA saccat4, abrupte divergentia, 
subplana, late oblique semicordato-ovata, ex apice inequilatero- 
rotundato (margine postieo convexiore) subabrupte apiculata acuta, 
apiculo 3-4e, longo, basi 2-3c. lato, margine toto celluloso-crenulata, 
antice sub apice denticulo sepe aucto; lobulus folio 6-plo brevior 
inflatus margine transverso inflexo, apice occulto; cellule mediocres 
ad angulos perpaulo inerassate, granis chlorophylli oblongis in annu- 
lum angustum opacum congestis, ceeterum pellucide, simum versus 
subelongatie, 
Foliola cordato-reniformia, auriculis baseos majusculis, apice vix ultra 4 
bifida, segmentis contiguis acuminatis, 
Flores dioici: ramuli 9 simplicissimi laterales, folia caulina perpaulo 
excedentes, foliis infra-foralibus minutis 1- (raro 2-8-) jugis. Brac- 
tee propriz foliis subbreviores acute integerrime, lobis lanceolatis, 
postico paulo breyiore duplo angustiore; bracteola obovata vix ad 4 
bifida, 
In monte Campana inveni formam tenuiorem magis et subpinnato- 
ramosam, foliis angustioribus, foliolis duplo minoribus suborbiculatis; 
quoad flores @ ceterosque cataracteres typo supradescripto omnino con- 
formem, Mensura partium sequitur: 
F ‘65 x °45, lob 1; ¢ #5; fi? 3x °3, 385 x 135mm, 
L. pallescenti et subsimplict plane aftinis est L. lineata L. et Lg.! (in 
hb. Hook,—ex insula S. Christophori) quoad florescentias laterales sim- 
licissimas et perianthia leyia ecarinata; differt foliis falcatis obtusis, 
ishals fere globaso,—In ‘Synopsi Hep.’ L. subsimplea descripta fuit folias 
omnino elobulatis, unde eandem esse ac meam Andinam primum non 
recognovi; postea autem in Exsiceatis Antillanis Cl. Husnoti eandem 
vidi, Gottscheo nominatam, foliis lobulatis cet, char, plante Andinze 
perfecte conformem, 
Suscenus XXVII,—OTIGONIO-LEJEUNEA, 8 
Plantul perianthiis fere teretibus, apice solo carinatis, carinisque in 
alam auriculamve, integram vel fissam, ultra perianthium recte productis; 
necnon e foliis laxe textis, seepe elobulatis ad T'aai-Lejewneas Codonocoleas 
accedere viderentur; yalde diverse autem statura pusilla, foliis ete. post 
