408 ANOMOCLADA. 
magna anguste fusiformia trigona, ore subincisa. Calyptra parva 
tenuis. Capsu/a magna, valida, ab ipsa basi 4-valvis. Elateres 
elongati subattenuati bispiri decidui. Spore minutissime. Flores 
masculi amentulis anticis sistentes ; antheridia solitaria. 
ANOMOCLADA MUCOSA, Spruce, l.c. p. 134, tab. 178. 
Hab. in sylvis fluviorum Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari et Atabupo primeevis, 
ad truncos prostratos putrescentes, sepe aliis hepaticis muscisque 
irrepens. 
Folia 1°5 x 1:3, 2°70 x 1:5; cellule 3; f* :25 longa; br* mt 11x04, 
16x05; per 40x0°5; cal 1:1x0°6; styl 2; caps 11x05; ped. 
sectio 35x 3; elat 4; spore ,45™™. 
Czespites lati depressi, albido-virides vel flavescentes, semper liquore 
mucoso suffusi. Caules 1-3-pollicares albidi tenaces, cellulis pluri- 
stratis opacis, corticalibus ceteris vix paulo latioribus, conflati; basi 
brevi spatio radicellis flagellisque rhizophoris repentes, foliis marcidis 
vestiti vel subnudi; dein a matrice liberi, arcuantes, densifolii, 
subtus radicelliferi nudive, statim devexi facieque postica flagella 
solitaria fasciculatave, valida, albida, subramosa, radicellis tenuis- 
simis flexuosis villosa, demittentes; postea iterum assurgentes 
arcuantes radicantesque, apice plerumque liberi foliosi, raro attenuati 
subaphylli radicelliferi ; facie antica ramos paucos assurgenti-arcu- 
antes simplices vel ad caulis instar ramosos ftagelliferosque pro- 
ferentes. Flagella nodulis minutis conicis tristichis distantibus 
(foliis rudimentariis) basi externa radicelliferis obsita ; noduli flagel- 
lorum apicem versus obsoletis, radicellze copiosiores evadunt. 
Folia valida nitida succuba, alterna vel per paria subapproximata, plus 
minus assurgentia, interdum secunda, undulato-convexa, apice 
decurvula, ad lineam obliquam angulum 30° cum caule efformantem 
lata basi inserta, late oblique ovato-ligulata, rotundato-truncata, seepe 
retusa, raro subemarginata, medio margine utrinque recurva 
exindeque panduriformia, basi postica semicordata ibidemque szpe 
tam gibba et crispato-sinuata ut caulis a postero visus cristatus 
videretur (ad Plagiochile cristate instar); cellule mediocres sub- 
conformes pellucidee, pulchre guttulatee, ovali-hexagonz, pachydermes, 
ad angulos insigniter incrassate, Intus 6-sinuate, endochromio parco 
in sicco sepius in cellule ambituse coacervato, extus perpaulo 
prominule, leevissimee. 
Foliola dissita foliis 6-8plo breviora, patentia, Jata basi utrinque 
decurrente inserta, late ovata, im acumen subulamve brevem 
producta ; inferiora plerumque tota fere in mucum soluta, itaque ad 
limbum angustum semilunatum redacta; superiora vix unquam 
perfecta, sed e margine apiceque plus minus dissolutis nune irregu- 
Jariter bifida, nunc quadrifida v. digitatim mrultifida, seepius tamen 
eroso-lacera videnda. Radicellae apice clavato-nodosie, rarius sub- 
divisee, e foliolorum basi raro proferuntur. 
Flores dioici: 9 ramulo brevissimo caulis facie antica medium versus 
oriundo constantes. Bractee trjuge, tristichee, infimee minutee sub- 
bifida ; supremze foliis subsequilongee, perianthii basi leviter adnate, 
a basi oblonga vaginante recurvo-squarrosie, ad medium. bifide, 
Jaciniis subacuminatis varie tortis angulatis subincisisve, duc 
anteriores plus minus alte connate, tertia postica (bracteolave) paulo 
