Blasia. franz stàphani. species hepatigarum. 9 



magna, sphaarica, pedicello brevissimo, nusquam exserta, poro alveolar! 

 parvo. Plantée feniinese steriles semper propaguliferse, versus apicem 

 frondis involucrum ut supra descriptum gerentes. Propagula majuscula, 

 in fundo involucri dense aggregata, discoidea, plano-convexa, subsessilia 

 (pedicello unicellulari) cellulis parvis clavatis muciferis circumdata, saepe 

 pedicello afflxa germinantia. Unica species: 



Cavicularia densa St. 1897, Bull. herb. Boiss., p. 87. 



Hab. Japonia (Faurie, Ishikawa, Miyaké). 



Schiffner erwähnt noch eine zweite Art Brutknospen (in den Hüllen), 

 die ich aber an meinen zahlreichen Aufsammlungen nirgends zu finden 

 vermochte. 



BLASIA Micheli 1729. 



Plantée frondosse, médiocres, radicellis hyalinis arcte repentes, ter- 

 restres, intense virides, dense caespitantes. Frons repetito-furcata, 

 angusta, lale costata. Costa postice valde convexa, antice canaliculata, 

 abrupte m alas altenuata. Alœ in medio basali pluristratse, inciso-lobatse, 

 lobis unistratis rotundatis integerrimis, folia fingentibus^ in apice frondis 

 imbricatis, incubis, seepe crispa tis; cellulae frondis corticales parvse, 

 internée mullo majores, in costa parvae elongatse. In facie poslica frondis, 

 ubi Costa in alas transit, adsunt cavitates parvse, miricula dictse, sub- 

 globosa, basi lata tamen inserla, vertice clausa et poro minuto perforata, 

 primo mucore repleta, subinde semper algis infesta et valde ampliala; 

 dua auricula utroque lobulo tributa, alterum margini supero lobuli, 

 alterum infero approximatum. Amphigastria magna, ad latus costae 

 biseriata, centre suo tan tum accreta, ovata grosseque dentata. Inflores- 

 cenüa dioica. Flores feminei in facie antica frondis nudi, foliis floralibus 

 nuUis, posl fecundationem involucro in^iiormi crasso circumvallati, haud 

 innovati; involucri apex prominulus, constrictus, mamillatus, cellulis 

 incrassatis lignosus. Pistilla plura, aggregala, unum fecundatum involu- 

 cratum, reliqua sterilia decidua. Caly ptr a inclussi, libéra celliilis bistratis 

 crassa. Capsula ellipsoidea, basi externa vallalim ampliata, subapophysata, 

 in pedicello longiusculo, basi bulbo anguste conico inserto, ceterum 

 usque ad basin quadrivalvis; valvulae 3-4 stratae; cellulse externae longae, 



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