448 CALYPOGEIA. 
orificium papillis internis articulatis fere clausum. Culyptra per- 
fecie libera, angusta, basi pistillidiis sterilibus obsita. Capsula... 
Andrecia caulem g totum sistentia; bracteee plurijuge, turgide, 
1—2-andre. 
Hab. et Distr. Species 12 vel plures hodie cognite habitant: 2 in 
Europa australi, ceetere in terris tropicis et austrinis; in Andibus 
2 species legi. In terra saxisque subhumidis umbrosis crescunt. 
CALYPOGEIA ONISCOIDES, Spruce. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, ubi in umbrosis montis Guayrapata supra terram 
et muscos adrepit, alt. 2700-3000". 
F 15x16, 15x13, f. ramea 9x‘9, *8x°9, ¢ posh 5 Marsupium 18x 
()gmm_ 
Pusilla albicans tenerrima depresso-ceespitosa. Caules }-pollicares prelati 
carnosi, radicellis crebris longissimis sordide albidis subtus villosi, 
apice solo assurgentes subarhizi, simplices vel subramosi, ramis seepe 
brevibus cemmiformibus. 
Folia pro plantula magna, confertissima, opposita, utrinque connata, 
longe oblique inserta, assurgenti-conniventia, late ovato-orbiculata, 
basi. subcordata exindeque ‘subreniformia, integerrima vel (termi- 
nalia preecipue) margine scarioso erosa ; cellule leptodermes pellu- 
cide, vel sube ‘onformes vel infra medium solum Zgo—b™™ diametro, 
supra folii medium duplo fere majores et scariosee. Foliola nulla. 
Flores dioici: 2 terminales, innovationibus binis minutis, oppositis vel 
collateralibus suffulti. Bracteze foliis longe minores 3-seriate, in 
conos 3 truncatos arcte imbricatos basique inter se leniter adnatos, 
conniventes ; seriei extime tres, plus minus connate, laterales tri- 
angulari-subulate, media subquadrata bifida; seriei mediz in 
annulum altiusculum irregulariter fissum connate ; Intimee minores 
teneriores ad basin fere usque in lacinias inzequales, subulatas, cilii- 
formes amorphasve fissie. 
Marsupia pendula (subterranea) cylindracea viridia, siccando badia, car- 
nosa, cellulis 8-10-stratis conflata, extus subpapillosa radicellisque 
setosa, facie interna orificium versus papillis longis articulatis fere 
horizontalibus obsessa. Calyptra perfecte libera, marsupio fere 
zquilonga, tenuis, cellulis unistratis conflata, basi pistillidiis paucis 
circumdata, apice bilabiatim rupta. Marsupia raro vidi binata, 
altero scilicet laterali, innovationis loco. 
Bractee pl. ¢ totam fere caulis longitudinem tenentes, foliis minores 
subconformes, ventricoso-concavie, arcte julaceo-imbricate. Anthe- 
ridia jam decisa non vidi. 
The leaves on each side of the stem arch over towards those of the 
opposite side, and are so densely imbricated as to simulate sheathing 
plates or sci les ; whence the plants resemble woodlice, or other small 
crustaceans, curled up and laid on their backs. 
Gottsche says his Lindigina granatensis has incubous leaves—doubtless 
by mistake, for his LZ. Lichmanniana is figured in Mex. Leverm. t. 20, 
with decidedly succubons leaves, and he considers the two species con- 
geners. The latter differs from my plant in the smaller ovate leaves, 
not arcuato-connivent so as to veil the upper side of the stem. 
