NARDIA. 521 
Folia imbricata assurgenti-secunda patentia vel accumbentia, lined obliqua 
arcuata inserta, latiora quam longa, suborbiculata reniformiave retuso- 
emarginata, sinu obtuso, angulis rotundatis, margine obtuse angulata, 
facie subundulata (superiora precipue) ; cellule majuscule lepto- 
dermes, ad angulos vix subincrassate, subchlorophyllos, marginales 
subminores quadratie fere vacuze. 
Foliola $ breviora lanceolata sensim acuminata, torta seepeque recurva, 
utrinque infra medium dente spinave aucta—vel inequaliter tri- 
loba—rarissime subzequaliter biloba. 
Flores dioici: ? terminales, innovatione una alterave postica—interdum 
nulla—suffulti. Bracteze propriz unijugee crecte arcte appresse, 
altera (interior) basi ad {4 alt. usque cum perianthio concreta, altera 
fere libera, foliis paulo majores oblato-orbiculatee 3-4-lobulate vel 
pluri-crenatee, lobulis crenulisve crispis ; bracteola subbrevior foliolis 
subconformis major tamen, basin versus sepe dente uno alterove 
utrinque aucta. Folia infrafloralia 1-2-juga ceteris caulinis magis 
contferta latioraque apice seepe emarginato-triloba. 
Perianthia subemersa cylindrico-oblonga compressa truncata, apicem versus 
obscure 3- (4-) plicata, plicis suturisve interdum subalatis, ore indis- 
tincte 3-lobo dein grousse crenato vel lobulato, lobulis crispulis. 
(Unum perianthium vidi cui suture due posticee in alam angustam 
intra (nec extra) perianthium prominebant ; idem quod inter Plagio- 
chilas interdum accidit. Calyptra duplo brevior libera tenuissima. 
Capsula globosa sordide ruberrima, pedicello valido longiusculo. 
Andreecia medio caule posita; bracteze foliis consecutive subconformes, 
breviores autem basique ventricosee ; antheridia jam decisa. 
Syn. Jungermania succulenta Rich. Mst. in Lehm. et L. Pug. 1V.; G. L. 
et N. Syn. Hep. 84. 
4, NARDIA TORTISTIPULA, Spruce. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in scopulis humidis ad cataractam Agoydn, alt. 
iOOe™: 
F 1-25x1-25, 155x165, 2°0x2°0; chs ff 6...1:5 longa; per 
20x10; br’ 10x°5, 15x -7™™, 
Ceespitosa viridis pellucida tenerrima. Caules j-1-pollicares erecti vel 
procumbentes, basi radicellis intertexti, flagellis nullis. 
Folia alterna, inferiora parva, superiora increscentia, majuscula, assur- 
genti-subsecunda, late imbricata, suborbiculata, apice rotundata rarius 
retuso-truncata, concava integerrima repandula ; cellule majuscule 
quadrato-hexagonz leptodermes fere vacua, marginales subqua- 
dratee. 
Foliola foliis haud multo breviora, ovato-lanceolata sensim acuminata, 
vel lanceolato-subulata, torta et ex alis recurvis seepe canaliculata. 
Flores dioici: foem. terminales, steriles innovatione, fertiles nulla, suffulti. 
Bractez unijuge erecte, foliis vix majores, conformes, interior brevi 
spatio perianthio adnata; bracteola foliolis paulo major, lanceolata, 
hine unidentata, rarius subzequaliter bifida, basi perianthio leniter 
adnata. 
Perianthia tenerrima, juvenilia campanulata, ore hiante cellulis longis 
papilloso-crenulata, matura ovali-oblonga vel subcylindracea sub- 
teretia compressulave ecarinata, ore truncato vix parum plicata 
breviter 6—-9-fida edentata, semper plus minus disrupta. Capsula 
altiuscule exserta fere globosa tenera lurido-purpurea. 
