HyGro-L&rJEUNEA. 
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earinata, carinis levibus vel angulato-scaberulis apiece latiusculis, 
anticaé minus alta; post fructus emissionem varie rupta. 
Hygro-L. Spongia, huic affinis, differt colore in sicco nigrescente ; 
ramificatione plante Q dichotoma; foliis duplo fere majoribus ellipticis, 
lobulo paulo majore; foliolis pro foliorum ratione multo minoribus, apice 
emarginato-retusis; bracteis inequilobis, lobulo duplo fere minore. 
5. Hyaro-LEJEUNEA PASTASENSIS, Spruce. 
Hab. In fl. Pastasa ripis, juxta fl. Blanco ostium, alt. 1500™ in arborum 
ramis. 
F 15x11 (lat. ad lobuli apicem mensa); lobulus *55 (ad plicam), °4 
(juxta caulem); ¢ 33; f'* ‘9x 1-0, rima ‘1; br 1:0 x :4™™, 
Pallide flavo-viridis, zetate subfulva, prostrata intricata. Caules 2-polli- 
cares inzequaliter pinnati et subbipinnati, apice elongato simplices. 
Folia subimbricata supra lobulum divergentia, late semiovata, scalpelli- 
formia, apice decurvo subabrupte oblique acuta perseepeque minute 
apiculata, margine repanda integerrima vel apice paucidentata, infra 
medium subsinuato-(vel fere recte) complicata; lobulus 3-plo brevior 
semiovatus subplanus, basi brevi cauli adnatus, apice acutus; cellulz 
mediocres, omnes fere conformes. 
Foliola subimbricata foltis breviora vix angustiora, cordato-orbiculata 
planiuscula, apice reflexo brevissime (ad }) obtuse bifida, dentibus 
apiculatis forficatis, margine angulata. 
Flores dioici: @ (juniores) in ramis brevibus innovando-proliferis ter- 
minales. Bracteze complicato-bilobze, lobis lanceolatis subacuminatis 
serrulatis, inferiore subbreviore duplo fere angustiore; bracteola ad 
4 bifida, segmentis acutis. 
Differt a L. rotundifolia Mitt. foliis parum (neque longe et anguste) 
decurrentibus, apiculato-acutis, lobulo basi breviore inserto; foliolis apice 
ad 4 solum (nec ad 4) bifidis; cellulis minoribus; demum innovationi- 
bus unilateralibus nec oppositis. 
6. Hyaro-LEJEUNEA DEVOLUTA, Spruce. 
Hab. Lamas, Andium Peruvianorum, alt. 700™, et S. Gabriel fl. Negro, 
in fruticum ramis. 
F 1:15 x 1:0, ‘95 x ‘85; lob ‘5 x ‘38, 25 x ‘2, ¢ gf; fle 65x °9, 5x 65; 
br 1:05; bri 1-0.x ‘6; per “95 x “65™™. 
Elatiuscula pallida, siccando fuscidula, tenerrima, in vivo semper humida. 
Caules bipollicares prostrati pendulive implexo-stratificati, anguste 
pinati vel subbipinnati, ramis inzequilongis, aliis dichotomis. 
Folia tenuia imbricata divergentia late semicordato-ovata apice decurvo- 
involuto obtusata rotundatave—raro abrupte subacuta, celluloso- 
subcrenulata, sinuato-complicata; lobulus 2-4-plo brevior subplanus 
(plica tamen subconvexa) late ovatus rotundato-truncatus; cellule 
parvulz subconformes, sat crasse, pariete tenui, chlorophyllo par- 
cissimo, subplana, marginales autem convexulz. 
Foliola imbricata, foliis duplo fere breviora, paulo angustiora, cordato- 
reniformia, apice brevissime emarginata—rima solum 2-4 cellu- 
las alta—dentibus acutis conniventibus, subplana, celluloso-sub- 
