1962] LEAFY HEPATICAE OF LATIN AMERICA — PART I 105 



BOLIVIA: Unduavi, Pearce (G) ; Cejawald, C. Troll (Hb. Herzog) ; near Tablas, 3400 

 m, Herzog 2850 (Hb. Herzog) ; Abia de San Benito, 3900 in, Herzog (Hb. Herzog). 



11. Herberta runcinata (Taylor) Herzog in Skottsberg, Nat. Hist. Juan Fer- 

 nandez Easter Is. 2: 728. 1942, 



Sendtnera runcinata T. Taylor, London Jour. Bot. 5: 372. 1846. 



Schisma reicheanum Stephani, Spec. Hep. 4: 20. 1909. 



Schisma runcinata (Taylor) Stephani, Spec. Hep. 4: 21. 1909. 



Schisma ferrugineum Stephani, Sv. Vet.-akad. Handl. 46 9 : 72. 28 a. 1911. 



Plants of small to medium size, light to dark brown, often reddish, in tufts 

 or scattered among other bryophytes; leafy steins 3-5 em long, with leaves to 

 2 nun wide (when dry), rarely branehed. Line of leaf insertion transverse. 

 Leaves erect -spreading, imbricate below, asymmetric, 3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, 

 bifid to the middle or below; segments long, lanceolate, the dorsal segment the 

 larger, the tips acuminate by a few hyaline cells, the vitta often scarcely con- 

 spicuous in light-colored leaves, ending below the apex, the margins entire or 

 crenulate; lamina ovate, the margins convex, with few to many appendages in 

 the lower half, the vitta bifurcating some distance below the sinus; leaf cells 

 with very thick walls, large trigones, and large thin-walled pits, the cuticle 

 rough, often warty. Underleaves similar to the leaves, symmetric, the segments 

 more or less erect. Plants dioicous. Male inflorescence terminal becoming inter- 

 calary on the stem, the bracts and bracteoles like the leaves, pouched. Female 

 inflorescence and sporophyte not seen. Fig. 11, a-g. 



Habitat : On trees, tree bases, logs, rarely on rocks or soil, in forests. 



CHILE — PATAGONIA: Corral: Quitaluto, Hosseus 625a, 686a, (as f. incompleta 

 depauperata), 679d (as f. minor & f. incompleta) (Hb. Herzog); Lago Pillaifa, Schwabe 

 IS (Hb. Herzog) ; Chaihuin-Colun, 500 m, Schwabe 26f, 82b (Hb. Herzog) ; Chiloe, Jung 

 2435 (Hb. Herzog) ; Istmo de Ofqui, Grosse 2 p.p. (Hb. Herzog) ; Pto Puyuhuapi, Schwabe 

 53 p.p. (Hb. Herzog) ; Pto Varas, Dusen 446 (NY) ; Eio Palena, Bedche, type of S. reicheanum 

 (G-5420) ; Chiloe, Seed (NY), Cuming 1447 (isotype, NY) ; Guaitecas I., Dusen 97a (NY) ; 

 Pto Yasso, Dusen (NY) ; Newton I., Dusen (NY) ; Desolation I., Dusen (G) ; Magellan Straits 

 (Voy, Albatross) (NY); w and s Patagonia, STcottsberg, type of S. ferrugineum (G). Juan 

 Fernandez: Masefuera, Las Torres, C. I. STcottsberg 1375 (Hb. Herzog). 



The following taxa which belong to the genus Herberta have not been available for study: 



Schisma orizabense Gottsehe, 1863. Mexico. 



Schisma elliottii Spruce, 1895. Dominica. 



Herberta pumila Jack & Stephani, 1895. Argentina. 



Schisma durandvi Stephani, 1901. Eoraima. 



Schisma uleanum Stephani, 1905. Ule. 



Schisma oblongifolium Stephani, 1909. Brazil. 



Schisma peruviense Stephani, 1909. Peru. 



Schisma latevittatwm Stephani, ms. Icones Hep., Schisma no. 32. 

 Sendtnera chilense De Notaris, 1857. Chile. 



