280 PLEUROCARPI, PERISTOMI. SPIRIDENS. 
ant 
rostratum, Patria sarta in excelsis. Vita terrestris, 
sporades, perennis 
Spiridens Heinwardiz (Bos, Nrrs v. Esrwm.) caule ere- 
cto subramoso, foliis subsexfariis patentibus e basi semi- 
amplexicauli lanceolato- acuminatis serratis subexcurrenti- 
nerviis, thecae obovatae subobliquae operculo conico -ro- 
strato. 
S. Reinwardti. Nxzs v. Esens. loc. cit, p.444. t. XVII. 
ScuwAECR. Suppl. II. P. I. p. 164. t. CXLVII. Srevo. Nom. 
Crypt. p. 398. 
Germ. fieinwardt's Schneckenzahn. Garı. Spirident de 
Reinwardt 
In summo monte ignivomo insulae Tidor in Molucca- 
rum Archipelago D. Reixwaror anno 4820 detexit. Clar. 
Prnasoow humanissime communicavit. 
Caulis erectus vel ascendens, pedem et ultra longus, cras- 
sus, firmus, laete purpureus, superne ramosiusculus, ra- 
rius subdichotomus. Rami patentes, simplices, unciales, 
biunciales. Folia dense conferta, subsexfaria, e basi arcte 
amplexicauli divaricata, patentia (siccitate subpatula) stri- 
cta, lanceolato - acuminata longissuna sub-semuncialia, 
gine Sais, luculenter serratà, nervo crasso subexcur- ` 
rente instructa, laevia, vix siccitate obsoletissime striata, 
tenuissime lineari areolsta, inferiora fusca, superiora e vi- 
ridi lutescentia , substraminea. Perichaetialia longe minora, 
m 
balilarni, brevi ssi aiti: vix lineam longus, pee incras- 
w. 
CHENIUM non videmus), siccitate profunde sulcata. Peri- 
stomium exterius, dentes sedecim lanceolato-lineares, arcte 
trabeculati, lineà medià nullà notati madore erecti, sicci- 
