362 bulletin de l'herbier boissier. Bicciella. 



cavernosum humillimum. Sporee 42 jx, haud reticulatim lamellatas, ubique 

 spinis brevibus creberrime hirtae. 



Hab. Africa Angola. Lifime (Welwitsch). 



Prascedenti simillima. fronde anguste reticulala sporisque longius spi- 

 nosis distincta. 



86. R. paraguay ensis Spruce. Bull. Soc. bot. franc. 1889, p. 195. 

 Syn. : B. macropora St. in K. Svenska Akad. 1897, XXIII. 



Monoica, major, viridis, expansa. Frons 10 mm. longa trifurcata, furcis 

 divergentibus, late linearibus, apice truncato rotundatis, tenerrima, plana, 

 antice poris maximis instructa; cavernse 5-6 in diametro frondis; costa 

 très cellulas alla, Strato antico sequilata, marginibus tenerrimis, charta- 

 ceis; sporae 60 ^, anguste alatse, ala crenulata, reticulatim lamellatse. 

 foveolis 10 (a, papillalae. 



Hab. Paraguay, Asuncion (Balansa, Lindman). 



87. R. ochrospora M. et N. in Ldbg. Mon. Rice. (Ac. Caes. Leop. 

 XVIII, p. 504 b. 



Monoica, parva, dilute viridis. Frons 4 mm. longa, late obeuneata, fur- 

 cata, furcis longe coalitis, brevibus, apice divergentibus, late truncato 

 rotundatis, ubique aequicrassis, haud chartaeeis, antice posticeque planis, 

 marginibus haud atténua tis rotundatis; costa latissima, très cellulas alta, 

 Stratum anlicum multoties altius, laxe cavernosum. Sporae maturœ non 

 adsunt. 



Hab. Chile (Bertero). 



Der Name ist unzutreffend, da die gelben Sporen zweifellos nicht reif 

 waren ; Lindenberg nennt sie nebenbei auch ziegelroth (Monogr. Rice, 

 p. 504 c), was auf einen reiferen Zustand hinweist. 



88. R. amazonica Spruce, Bot. Soc. Ed. 1885, p. 571. 



Dioica, medioeris, in sicco flavo-virens. Frons usque ad 6 mm. longa, 

 furcata, furcis late divergentibus, brevibus, late linearibus 2 mm. latis, 

 tenerrimis, apice profunde bilobis, antice posticeque subplana, ob lamellas 

 perlucentes laxe reticulata ; costa humillima. Sporœ parvae 34 [i, matursß 

 pallide flavidœ ubique creberrime papillatœ, papillis humilibus, hyalinis, 

 obtusis. 



Hab. Brasilia ad flumen Ramos, Tarapoto (Spruce). 



89. R. Spruceana St. n. sp. 



Monoica, major, viridis, expansa. Frons usque ad 10 mm. longa, tennis, 



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