210 BULLETIN DE l'herbier boissier. Fimbriaria. 



piirpurea. Frons ad 2 cm. longa, 4 mm. lala, linearis, ex apice innovala, 

 rarais femineis parvis posticis, anlice subplana. Costa fronde triplo angus- 

 tior, la te convexa, distincte (haud abrupte) producta, alge crass8e, aculse. 

 Stratum anticum coslse sequialtum, maxime lamelliferum, cavernis 

 angustis. filis liberis nuUis. Stomata parva, parum convexa, 6 cellulis 

 biserialis angustis formata; epidermis sequaliter maximeque incrassala, 

 trigonis nullis. Squamae conliguse, purpurese, oblique lunatse, apice in 

 setam longam hyalinam attenuatse. Pedunculus ad 3 cm. longus, pur- 

 pureus, superne longe paleaceus, apice barbatus, paleis purpureis, line- 

 aribus, rectangulalus vel subleres. Carpocephala late conica, oblusa, 

 grosse papulosa, lobis oblique patulis, papulosis, centre capituli subaequi- 

 longis, cum involucro aîquilongo breviter campanulatis. Perianthia 

 liyalina, ovata, obtusa, ad V^ exserta, pendula; capsula dilute brunnea. 

 valida. Operculum? Sporœ luridse, 108 \i angusle alatte. Elateres brèves, 

 144 {1, flavescentes, bispiri, spiris angustis, laxe tortis. Andrœcia magna, 

 pulvinata, ostiolis magnis hyalinis, in planta propria ex apice repelito 

 innovata, innovationibus brevibus masculis. 

 Hab. Kamerun (Preuss'j, Angola (Welwitsch). 



65. Fimbriaria chilensis Mont. Ann. .sc, nat. 1838, IX, p. 41. 



Monoica, minor, viridis, posüce hyalina, crassa. Frons ad 10 mm. 

 longa, 2 mm. lata, furcalim ramosa vel ex apice innovala, anlice plana, 

 postice subconvexa; costa fere plana, duplo tantum fronde angustior, 

 sensim in alas atténua tas excurrens. Stratum anticnm costse aequiallum, 

 laxe cavernosum, fila libéra nulla. Stomata parva, parum convexa, poro 

 magno 6 cellulis triseriatis angustis circumdalo. Epidermis lenera. Squa- 

 mae parvse appendiculo longo lanceolato, longe acuminalo, inlerdum spina 

 magna basali armato. Pedunculus brevis, ad 10 mm. longus, tenuis vel 

 brevior et magis crassus, teres, humiliter paucicostatus, apice paucis 

 paleis longe fîliformibus, hyalinis barbatus. Carpocephala breviler conica, 

 verlice obtusa, lobis umbellatim patulis, teneris, venosis, vix ad medium 

 solutis, apice decurvis, cum involucro breviter campanulatis, ore angus- 

 tato. Perianthia brevissima, lobos parum superantia, late ovata, capsulas 

 pressura inflata, apice mucronala. Capsula byalina; sporde 84 jj., alis lalis, 

 asperis, flavescentes. Elateres 210 [x, hyalini, spiris duplicatis fîliformibus. 

 Andrœcia pedunculo approximata, ostiolis hyalinis, brevibus. 



Hab. Chile (Gay. Dusén.) 



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