534 SYMPHYOGYNA. 
scrobiculis nidulantia, solitaria, brevistipitata, bractea squameeformi 
incisula fornicaté obvelata; omnes bracteze interdum in alam plus 
minus continuam connate. 
Hab. et Distr. Species adhue cognitz in terris tropicis et austra- 
lioribus crescunt, nulla in Europa; 4 in Andibus sylvestribus—una 
sola earum etiam in planitie—meipso lectz szepissime ripariz vide- 
bantur, in terra saxisque necnon in truncis prostratis rivulorum 
aquis humectatis vigentes. 
A. Frondes prostrate, cwudice repente nullo. 
1. S. Brasiliensis. Frondes integerrime. 
2. S. Brongmarti. Frondes pinnatifidee-partiteve. 
3. S. leptothelia. Frondes serratie. 
B. Frondes suberecte, e caudice repente orte. (= Hymenophyton Dum.) 
4. S. Hymenophyllum. Frondes distanter denticulatz spinuloseve. 
1. SyMpHyoGyNA BRASILIENSIS (Nees.) Mont. 
Jungermania Brasiliensis, Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in M. Altar, ad aggeres umbrosos ; in M. Tungu- 
ragua, in declivibus humidis: alt. 2400". 
Fr. lat. 5:0; costa 1:5 x °35; ¢ sh—qs; wvol 1°5-2°5 alt.; cal 80x 1-25; 
ped 34; caps 40x11; br g'4x ‘6 (v. minores); anth °3 x °2™™, 
Prostrata, lurido-viridis, subinde, ad costam precipue, purpurascens. 
Frondes 3°™ longze, basi et hic illic radicantes, lato-lineares flexuosee, 
integerrime, simplices v. semel bisve furcatze, late costate; costa 
sectione semilanceolata, filo centrali lignoso tenui percursa; cellule 
limbi majuscule subeequilateree tenues subchlorophyllose. Frondes 
basin versus seepe postice sub ramose, sc. frondulam unam alteramve 
prodentes. 
Flores dioici: ? antici, e costa oriundi, pauci, solitarii, bracteé viridi 
breviuscula 3-6-fida, laciniis attenuatis interdum incisis, raro duplici 
suffulti. [Vidi etiam unicum involucrum e phyllis 6 liberis imbri- 
catulis, apice tenuibus, sublaceris, formatum. | 
Calyptra erecta, latitudine frondis longior, subcylindrica, carnosa, apice 
sensim rotundato pistillidiis sterilibus (20 vel seepe paucioribus) elon- 
gatis coronata, basi stipite brevi valido suffulta. Capsula 2plo 
brevior cylindrico-fusiformis rufa tenuis, cellulis elongatis unistratis 
conflata, longipedunculata, 
Planta ¢ tenuior; antheridia ad costee margines foveolatas inserta soli- 
taria disticha, subinde, seriebus 2 intermediis, supra costam adjectis, 
4-sticha, maxima obovato-globosa, brevissime stipitata, bracteé forni- 
cata latiore quam longf, apice lato 2-4-fida, subvelata, vix autem 
operta. 
Possibly the same as S. atronervia Tayl. (S. H. 787), found on Pallun, 
near Cuenca, by Jameson; but Taylor says the capsule has two layers of 
cells, and splits (incompletely) with many valves. 
2. SympHYOGYNA BroNnGNIARTII, Mont.! 
Ann. des Sc. Nat. (1843). 
Hab, ad terram umbrosam super muscos repens; in truncis prostratis 
