360 LEPIDOZIA. 
usque connatis, capillaceis, cellulis majusculis uniseriatis conflatis. Bractee 
anguste 3-5-partite.—Habitus confirvoideus. (=TELARANEA nobis 
nov. gen. ?) 
11. L. chetophylla Spruce. Albicans flaccida pellucida, caule pollicari 
vage vel pinnatim ramoso, ramis lateralibus—paucis posticis (foliosis) 
interdum adjectis—flagellis 0. F. dissita (ramea contigua) 3-partita 
eruribus 4-7 cell. longis. F!* duplo breviora, cruribus (2 v. 3) 3 cell. 
longis, Per. magna tenuia fusiformi-subulata, supra medium trigona, 
ore longiciliato. 
1, LEPIDOZIA LAXEPINNATA, Spruce. 
Hab. Andes Peruvianos, in declivibus umbrosissimis montium Guay- 
rapuring et Campana, alt. 900-1200™, 
F 9x 6; 85 X ‘753 c aks; fi 55 x 455 45 x 74; Or 15x 15 per 
4:2 x °8; caps 1°25 x “25mm, 
Elata czespitosa albido-viridis. Caules 3-6-pollicares validi semel bisve 
laxepinnati, ramis dissitis breviusculis parum decurvis apice sepe 
flagellaribus. 
Folia caulina distantia, ramea magis approximata, late patentia, siccando 
haud appressa, subplana vel concava (non autem fornicata) late 
oblonga, breviter (vix ad } alt.) 4-fida, dentibus lobulisve triangu- 
laribus acutis subacuminatisve, sinubus acutis, basi utrinque rotun- 
data antice dilatata; cellule mediocres, quadrato-hexagone, fere 
vacue, pellucide. 
Foliola vix duplo minora, patula, apice in lobos 4 brevi-subulatos fissa. 
Flores dioici: @ postici; bracteze intime foliis duplo fere longiores 
ovato-rotundz apice breviter bifidule, margine eroso-ciliolate, 
exteriores minores apice 3-4-dentate. 
Perianthia bracteas fere 3plo superantia, tenui-fusiformia, apice constricto 
3-plicata integerrima, dimidio inferiore cellulas 2, superiore 1 c. 
solam crassa. Capsula brevipes oblongo-cylindrica, 
L. incurvata L. et G. Syn. Hep. 203; Spec. Hep. 21, t. 4 (ab Humboldt 
in Nova-granata lecta) a nostra differt statura humiliore ; foliis duplo 
minoribus paulo ultra 3 fissis, laciniis tam incurvis ut folia primo 
visu “integra vel apice crenata apparent.” 
2. LEPIDOZIA CUPRESSINA (Sw.), var. TENUICUSPIS. 
(Lepidozia tenuicuspis Spruce Mst.). 
Tfab. ad rupes arborumque radices, in montibus Campana et Guayra- 
puring Andium Peruvianorum, alt. circ. 1000™. 
F6 x “5; cds f* 6 x 5,4 x D3 br 18; per 40 xe 
“5mm, 
Albescens procumbens late denseque stratificata. Caules 1-2-pollicares 
confertim pinnati, raro apicem versus bipinnati, ramis apice decurvis 
sepeque attenuatis flagellaribus, stolonibus posticis nullis, 
Folia dense imbricata incurvo-fornicata ovato-subrotunda, margine antico 
valde gibboso-convexa, basi subsemicordata, postico subrecta, eroso- 
repandula, apice paulo ultra 4 quadrifida, sinubus subacutis, laciniis 
triangularibus tenui-acuminatis conniventibus, antica subangustiore 
longioreque ; cellule parvulee pellucidee subsequilateree—medize infe- 
riores submajores oblongo-hexagonze—convexule, pariete vix in- 
crassato. : 
Foliola foliis seepe equimagna, oblongo-rotunda, ultra 4 quadrifida, 
