<VOL. V, 1913). FRANZ STEPIIANI. SPECIES HEPATICAP.UM Ceratolejeunea . 



obtusa, margine postico substricto, antico bene arcuato, ad niedium 

 inserta, basi antica truncato-rotundata. Cellulx superie 18 [x,- basales 

 18X27 ;j,, trigonis subnullis. Lobulus parvus, obovato-triangulatus, folio 

 quadruplo brevior, recte patens, carina leviter arcuata, levi sinu in 

 folium excurrens, apice quam basis subduplo angustiore, emarginato, 

 angulo spinula armato. Amphigastria caulina magna, caule quintuplo 

 latiora, subrotunda, basi cordata, ad medium inciso-biloba, sinu angusto, 

 lobls late triangulatis acutis. Perianihia obovato-oblonga, apice longe 

 cornuta, cornibus attenuatis, obtusis divergentibus, posticis vixangus- 

 tioribus subporrectis. Folia floralia parva, perianthio duplo breviora, 

 obovata obtusa ; lobulus subduplo brevior, anguste lanceolatus obtusus, 

 ad medium solutus. Amphigaslrium llorale foliis floralibus aequilongum, 

 obovato-obIongum,lobulisbrevitercoaIitum,adraediuminciso-bifidum, 

 rima angusta, lobis angustis obtusis. Androecia parva, sessilia, bracteis 

 trijugis. 

 Hab. Africa occidentalis. Kamerun. 



Taxilejeiinea S. 



Plantse mediocres, saepe parvae A'el exiguse, rarius elatse, graciles, 

 vulgo pallidae, corticolae vel foliicolae, repentesvel prostratae,inramulis 

 arborum nidulantes vel pendulae. Caulis irregulariter ramosus, ramis 

 brevibus, paucis longioribus mlxlis, interdum fasciculatim ramosis 

 apiceque longe simplicibus. Folia caulina contigua vel parum imbricata, 

 ovata, rarius oblonga vel triangulata, obtusa vel acuta, plus minus 

 symmetrica, integerrima vel armata, marginibus sa>pe crenulatis, ad 

 medium inserta, basi antica truncata, rarius rotundata. Folia ramu- 

 iina multo minora. Lobulus folii ovatus vel oblongus, apice truncatus, 

 angulo obtuso, rarius apiculato vel spinifero, saepe obsoletus. Amphi- 

 gastria caulina majuscula, ssepe magna et maxima, vulgo transverse 

 inserta, rarius cordata, semper bifida. Inflorescenlia monoica vel dioica. 

 Perianthia in ramulo parvo terminalia, uno latere innovata, ob inno- 

 vationes repetitas seriata, liomotropantha, angusta vel oblonga vel 

 clavata, saipe cylindrica, vulgo quinque plicata, plicis integerrimis vel 

 varie armatis. Folia floralia caulinis semper minora, saepe pusilla; 

 Lobulus bene evolutus angustus, saepe parvus vel nullus. Amphigastna 

 (loralia semper bene evoluta, lobulis breviter coalita, rarius libera, apice 



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