312 HEPATIC ^E. 



Subgenus 3. LOP HO ZI A, Bum. 



•Tumjermania, sect. Lophozia, Dum. Syll. Jung. p. 53 (1831) ; Spruce, Hep. Am. 



et And. p. 511 (1885). 

 Lopliozia, Dum. Kecueil, p. 17 (1835) ; Scliiflner emend Eng. & Prant. 1 ; Pflanz. 



91 und 92 Lief. p. 81: (1893). 



Leaves suborbicular or subquadrate, bifid, in a few species 

 3-5 -fid, quite entire or sometimes denticulate. Stipules absent 

 or present, often bipartite. Perianth usually deeply plicate, very 

 rarely cylindrical and smooth. 



Section 1. BIDENTES, Schiffn. 



Stem leaves always bifid ; bracts similar or multifid. Stipules 

 absent or present. 



12. Jungermania bantriensis, Hooker. 



Jungermania bantriensis, Hook. Brit. Jung, in note under J. stipiilacea, n. 41 



(1816). 

 Jungermania bidentata, var. Hook. Brit. Jung. Suppl. t. Ill (1810). 

 Jtingermania hygro2yhylla, Spruce, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 11 (1840). 

 Jungermania culearis, Wils. MSS. in Spruce, Hep. Pyren. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 



Ill, p. 20 (1850). 

 Jungermania subcomp-essa, Limpr. Jahr. Schl. Ges. p. 7 (1884). 



Dioicous, loosely ceespitose, medium size, of a pale, dark 

 green or brown colour. Stems creeping or suberect, simple or 

 innovantly branched; on a cross-section cells alike, walls dark, 

 firm ; radiculose, rootlets long, few, whitish ; firm, flexuose, some- 

 times flaccid. Leaves succubous, alternate, imbricate, secund or 

 spreading, obliquely semi-vertically inserted, horizontal or sub- 

 erect, antical margin decurrent, roundish-quadrate, broadly ovate 

 or orbicular, emarginate-bidentate, from about j^j to 2^ deep, very 

 shallow, broad, rounded, often folded at the base, segments acute 

 or obtuse ; texture somewhat lax ; cells medium size, roundish or 

 roundish-hexagonal, lumen pellucid, with few chlorophyl granules, 

 walls somewhat firm, trigones small but distinct. Stipules lanceo- 



