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profunde bis bifida, laciniis angustis apice sepe capillaceis, margine 
(basin versus precipue) semper fere pulchre ciliatis ; cellu/w@ majus- 
cule subconformes scaberule. lores dioici:  ramulo perbrevi 
simplice constantes, yactew plurijugee, parvee, interiores perianthio 
adnate nonnisi apice libere.  Perianthia campanulata, propter 
bracteas aceretas ad speciem ramentacco-hirsuta. Calyptia 
Capsula (L. ochroleuce, fide cl. Gottsche) brevipedicellata, subglobosa, 
ad basin usque 4-valvis, 5-strata ; cellule stratorum 4 exteriorum 
pariete irregulariter incrassato, strati intimi fibras semicirculares 
monstrantes. lateres tenues dispiri; alii pauci capsule fundo 
adfixi, majores cylindrici, late wnispir7, demum cum _ ceteris 
elateribus decidui. Spore .... Andreecia . 
Hab. Ad arbores et saxa. 
Distr. Per tropicos et zonam temperatam australem sparse. 
L. ochroleuca, fide auctorum, neotropica, paleotrepica et australasica 
est ; anne autem una solf specie constans? Ipse in sylvis Andium 
Quitensium unicam speciem, antea a cl. Jameson inventam, leg. 
Sine dubio ad Zepicoleam referenda est, L. ochroleuce proxima, 
quamvis flores utriusque sexus adhue nobis latent. Quum de nulla 
Lepicolee specie fructum examinare mihi contigit, descriptionem 
capsule ete., a cl. Gottsche (Mex. Leverm.) mutuam sumpsi. 
Mastigophora Nees. differt perianthio ab involucro perfecte libero ; 
foliis bi-vel trifidis (nunquam bis bifidis) lobulo postico parvo et 
complicato ; foliis posticis minoribus, a lateralibus plus minus 
diversiformibus. 
1. LEPICOLEA PRUINOSA, Tayl. 
Sendtnera pruinosa, Tay]. in Lond. Journ. Bot. (1846), Syn. Hep. 722. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in monte Tunguragua, alt. 2500™, ad arborum 
truncos et in ipsa terra. In sylvis montis Pichincha (J AMESON). 
F et f 27 x16, 19x 1:25, 18x 10, ¢ Am™™, 
Elata robusta caespitosa flavescens, zetate fuscescens. Caules 6—7-pollicares 
suberecti pendulive apicem decurvo-circinatum versus seepe fastigiatim 
divisi, deinde bipinnati, pinnis subpollicaribus et vel iterum pinnatis 
vel ex parte dichotomis, pinnulisque apice attenuato decurvo-secundis. 
Caules ramique paraphylliis setiformibus, 4~-8-cellulas longis, basi sola 
2c. latis, rectis incurvisve, facie inferiore praecipue crebrius obsessi. 
Folia arete imbricata—terminalia densissima—incuba erecta concavula, 
suboblique ovato-quadrata, ad % usque bis bifida, laciniis lineari- 
subulatis capillaceo-acuminatis, toto margine—antico rotundato 
precipue—laciniata et longiciliata, ciliis flexuosis, seepe ramosis 
intricatisque, apice sepe canescentibus; cellule majuscule ovali- 
hexagon subprominule leptodermes subpellucide verruculose. 
Folia axillaria, e quorum gremio rami orti sunt, cordato-triangularia 
