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subbiunciale, luteo-viride. Caulisbasi fusco-tomentosus, adscen- 

 dens, erectus, superne fastigiato-raraosus ; ramis brevibus 

 lutescentibus. Folia dense imbricata, cirroso-crispula, erecto- 

 patentia, superiora longiora, apice recurvo, oblongo-lanceolata, 

 elongata, canaliculata, obtusa, parum undulata, superne cellu- 

 lis prominentibus muriculata, nervo lutescente aille apicem folii 

 evanido ; cellulis basilaribus angustis, linearibus, lutescentibus, 

 secundis abbreviatis, anguste ellipticis, caeteris dense aggrega- 

 tis , papilloso-punclatis, subopacis; pericheetialia strictiora , 

 erecta, longius acuminata, subintegerrima. Setabrevis, erecta, 

 vetusta parum curvata ; theca ovata, erecta, octies costata ; 

 operculo umbonato, subulato, recto; peristomium duplex, iutu- 

 bum brevem coalitum, clentibus exter. brevibus, dense aggrega- 

 lis, obtusis, intense croceis,erectis, inter. membranatenuissima, 

 hyalina,cohaerente, apice divisa, laciniisbrevibuslatioribustrun- 

 catis ; calyptra longa, la3vis ? profunde laciniata, intense crocea. 



Nova Granata ; J. Triana primus detexit ; Bogota, Guadalupe, altit. 

 2900 metr., in sylv. ad arbores; augusto, A. Lindig. 



Ex affînitate M. cirrosi Brid., sed theca manifeste costata, primo visu 

 differt. 



h. Macromitrium attenuatum Hpe. — Dioicum, laxe cespi- 

 tosum, elongatum, attenuatum, rufo-fusco-viricle. Caulis gra- 

 cilis y laxe diviso-ramosus, basi fusco-tomentosus, superne rufes- 

 centi-viridis, subaecmalis. Folia seriatim (tetrasticha) imbricata, 

 humida patula, suprema stellato-rellexa, sicca uncinato-cris- 

 pata, laxe accumbentia, e basi sulcato-carinata, oblongo-lan- 

 ceolata, elongata, flexuosa, canaliculata, margine superne in- 

 terdum undulata, basi integerrima, superne eroso-denticulata, 

 nervo rufescente percursa ante apicem evanido ; cellulis basi- 

 laribus luteis, seriatis, linearibus, lsevibus, intcrmediis ellipticis 

 brevioribus papillosis diaphanis , in superiore opaciore parte 

 folii dense aggregatis, papilloso-granulatis, in acumine dia- 

 phano dentato-serrata, cellulis ellipticis; perichaetialia intima 

 basim setee involventia, erecta, breviora, apice vix muriculata, 

 nervo paulo breviorc. Seta pseudo-lateralis, ramos paulo supe- 



