88 BULLETIN DE l'herbier boissier. Fimbùaria. 



medio postico leniter carinatim acutala, sensim in alas attenuata, grandi- 

 cellularis, infima parte postica cellulis duplo minoribus gedificata. Stratum 

 anticum bene definitum, humile, cavernis parvis dense filiferis. Stomata 

 parva, alte conica, 6 cell, quadriseriatis formata; cellulsß epidermidis 

 maxime incrassata?, trigonis maximis saßpe confluentibus et indistinctis 

 ob parielum incrassationem. Squamx posticae purpureae, appendiculo 

 subcirculari vel late ovato brevissimo, hyaline, margine crenulatim 

 papuloso tenei'rimo, vix constricto. Pedunculus brevissimus 3 mm. 

 longiis, ubique nudus. Carpocephala disciformia antice fere plana vel 

 parum convexa, intégra, i. e lobis ad discum indivisum confluentibus, 

 margine papulis prominentibus lobulatis. Invohicra tenerrima, disco 

 sublongiora, valde inflata. Perianthia ad 7^ immersa, marginem disci 

 p^fum superantia, hyalina, subhorizontalia. Capsula tenerrima, dilute 

 brunnea. Sporœ sulphurese, alis angustis, integerrimis 72 ^.. Elateres 

 170 pL, angusti, bispiri spiris validis. Andrœcia in ramulis parvis apicali- 

 bus, femineis approximatis magna. 

 Hab. Abyssinia Schoa (Schimper). 



3. Fimbriaria venosa L. L. in Lehm. Pug. PL IV, p. 29. 



Monoica, major, intense viridis, postice hyalina. Frons ad 25 mm. 

 longa, 4 mm. lata, repetito furcata, interdum ex apice innovata, tenuis et 

 valida, antice plana, costa fronde quintuple angustior abrupte prominens 

 et valde convexa, alae tenues, ubique sequicrassse, aculae, Stratum anticum 

 humile, fere Iriplo humilius quam costa, cavernis amplis, filis nullis. 

 Stomata parva (34 [x in diametro) 4-5 cellulis angustis biserialis formata, 

 subplana, cellulae epidermidis teneree. Squamœ posticae parvse, remotae, 

 roseae, appendiculo valde constricto parvo oblonge acute, magnis cellulis 

 purpureis formato. Pedunculus ad 2 cm. longus compressus, varie pro- 

 fundeque costatus, barba apicalis brevis, paleis hyalinis lanceolatis. 

 Carpocephala parva, leniter convexa, disciformia, lobis haud discretis sed 

 ope radiorum ad discum integrum conflatis, radii e centre communi 

 versus marginem sensim ampliati ibidemque rotundato prominentes; 

 involucra brevissima ad laminam parvam basalem reducta, perianthia 

 discum capituli vix superantes late ovata, breviter acuminata, acutissima, 

 hyalina, oblique palentia vel fere horizontalia. Capsula tenerrima rufes- 

 cens. Sporœ 72 ji, alis latis répandis asperis, rufescentes. Elateres flvaes- 

 centes 270 [j. tenues, flexuosi, bispiri, spiris validis. Andrœcia pedunculo 

 approximata parva, ostiolis grossis purpureis. 



Hab. Brasilia (Sellow, Puiggari, Ule). Siehe auch F. Zollingeri. 



101 



