358 LEPIDOZIA. 
(idem ac bracteole duplo minores) bidentate ; antheridia solitaria 
magna pedicellata. 
Hab. Ad saxa arboresque, necnon in ipsa terra turfosa umbrosa, 
vel super muscos reptans. 
Distr, Nulla terra exules, in zona zquatoriali montes sylvaticos 
diligunt, planitiem calidam fugiunt. In Andibus Quitensibus et 
Peruvianis, inter 800™ et 3000™ alt., ad arborum truncos et radices 
valde abundant, ad saxa rariores. In planitie Amazonica unicam 
speciem, Z. Amazonicam nun, sp., in statu solum sterili, semel legi ; 
preter L. chetophyllam—speciem ambiguam, melius forsan pro 
genere proprio (Telaranea nob.) habendam—per totam planitiei 
sylvam, necnon in Andium radicibus dispersam. 
Subgenus I. Ev-Leprpoztia. 
(= Eu-Lepidoxia + Ptilo-Lepidoxia, Spruce in Journ. Bot. 1876). 
Plantz pro more elatze, czespitosee vel dense stratificatee, pinnate, plus minus 
plumzeformes ; rami foliosi in plerisque omnes laterales, in perpaucis 
sp. adveniunt etiam postici (rarissime flagellares). Folia ineuba, 
breviter, vel ad $ usque—raro ultra—quadrifida. Perianthia carnosa, 
2-4-strata, ore subintegerrimo denticulatove, raro subsetuloso.— 
Omnes species in America meipso lectze dioicze sunt ; omnes Andine, 
nulla Amazonica. L. veptans autem, Europzea, pauceeque alize monoicee 
sunt. 
§ 1. Foliis foliolisque bast pro more inermibus. 
1. L. laxepinnata Spruce. Elata albido-viridis semel bisve laxepinnati, 
ramis breviusculis seepe apice flagellaribus. FF. distantia patula 
planiuscula late oblonga, vix ad 4 fissa, laciniis triangularibus acutis ; 
cell. mediocres. F'* vix duplo minora, breviter 4-loba. Br. intimee 
eroso-ciliolatee apice bidentatee. Perianthia foliis 5-plo longiora 
tenui-fusiformia, inferne 2 cell. crassa, ore integerrima. 
2. L. cupressina Sw. var. tenvicuspis Spruce. Elatiuscula albescens dense 
stratificata, caule arcte pinnato, raro bipinnato, ramis decurvis apice 
seepe flagellaribus. F. densa ovato-subrotunda fornicata, margine 
antico valde gibboso-convexa basique semicordata, paulo ultra 4 4-fida, 
lac. triangularibus tenui-acuminatis, antica longiore ; cell. parvule. 
F'* fere cquimagna oblongo-rotunda ultra $ 4-fida, lace. capillari- 
cuspidatis. Br. intimze postice connatie, ad 4 4-fidee, lac. abrupte 
acuminatis, antice subspinosee. Per. foliis fere 5-plo longiora, ovato- 
subulata, bistrata, ore ciliolata. 
3. L. subdichotoma Spruce. Rufo-viridis, caule vimineo pinnato, pinnis 
subdichotomis. F. distantia minuta quadrato-subrotunda incurva, 
ad 4 3-4-fida, lac. subulatis subobtusis; cell. parvee. F!* minora 
quadrata ad 4 digitatim 4-fida. Br. foliis 6-8-plo longiores orbiculate 
concavissime, 3-4-apiculatee, margine subspinulosze. Per. pro foliis 
maxima, 30-plo longiora, lineari-fusiformia, apicem versus profunde 
trisulca, ore subintegerrimo. 
4, L. cwspitosa Spruce. Humilis virescens, caule pinnato, ramis 
decurvis, alits apice tenuibus, posticis (perraris) foliosis nec flagelli- 
