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JUAN FERNANDEZ: Masatierra, Skottsberg [1916-17] 232, (type, Hb Hcrzog). 



subgenus macrophylla Fulford, Brittonia 14: 122. 1962. 



Kurzia subg. Macrophylla (Fulford) Grolle, Jour. Jap. Bot. 39 : 80. 1964. 



The plants are somewhat larger than those of the subgenus Microlepidozia 

 and the leaves are transverse, or obliquely inserted; the segments of the leaves 

 and underleaves are triangular with a base of (two), three or four cells; and the 

 segments of the underleaves are unequal. 



6. Microlepidozia uleana (Stephani) Fulford & J. Taylor, Jour. Hattori 



Bot. Lab. 21 : 83. /. 15-18. 1959. 



Lepidozia uleana Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 566. 1909; Icon. Hep., Lepidozia No. 35. 

 Kurzia uleana (Steph.) Grolle, Revue Bryol. Lichenol. 32: 174. 1963 (1964). 



Plants small, fuscous brown, in mats or among other bryophytes; stems 

 slender, to 2 cm long, with leaves to 3-4 mm broad, regularly pinnately branched, 

 the lateral branches distant, widely divergent, leafy, often becoming flagelliform 

 in the outer part, the ventral branches flagelliform, with scale-like leaves; stems 

 in transverse section brown, with a cortical layer of about 12 cells slightly larger 

 than the cells of the medulla. Line of leaf insertion on the stem transverse, on 

 the branches becoming oblique with the leaves succubous. Stem leaves asym- 

 metric, subquadrate to ovate-truncate in outline, quadrifid to the middle, the 

 lamina three to five rows of cells high, to 12 rows of cells across at the base; 

 segment spreading, triangular from a (2-), 3- or 4-celled base, four to six 

 cells high, the apex usually of one cell; cells of the base of the segments mostly 

 30-36x16 n, the tip cell 30^0 p. long, the walls slightly thickened, the cuticle 

 striolate. Underleaves large, quadrifid to the middle or below, the segments tri- 

 angular, one or two shorter than the others. Female inflorescence on a short 

 ventral sexual branch, the bracts and bracteoles similar, the innermost series 

 ovate, divided above into two or three laciniae, the margins of the lamina 

 toothed. Perianth to 4 or 5 mm long, cylindrical below, contracted above, 

 the mouth laciniate. Male inflorescence not seen. PI. 51. Fig. 6, a-g. 



Habitat: Not given. 



BRAZIL: Tropical, without locality, Vie 397 (type G). 



7. Microlepidozia brasiliensis (Stephani) Fulford & J. Taylor, Jour. Hattori 



Bot. Lab. 21 : 83. /. 19-22. 1959. 



Psiloclada brasiliensis Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 550. 1909; Icon. Hep., Psiloclada No. 1. 

 Kurzia brasiliensis (Steph.) Grolle, Revue Bryol. Lichenol. 32: 174. 1963 (1964). 



Plants small, fuscous brown, in mats or among other bryophytes; stems 

 slender, to 3 cm long, with leaves to 0.4 mm broad, regularly pinnately branched, 

 the lateral branches 0.8-1 mm apart, 1.0 mm long, widely spreading, leafy, the 

 ventral branches occasional, flagelliform with scale-leaves; stems in transverse 

 section brown, with a cortical layer of 12 (-16) cells, scarcely larger than the 

 cells of the medulla. Line of leaf insertion oblique, the leaves succubous. Leaves 

 distant to subimbricate, obovate to cuneate in outline, the lamina three or 

 four rows of cells high, quadrifid (trifid) to the middle or below; segments 

 spreading, triangular, from a (2-) , 3- or 4-celled base, four to seven cells long, the 

 apex usually ending in a tip of two cells 20-30 X 17 p.; leafcells of the base of the 

 segment 21-25 X 18 p, the cuticle smooth to faintly verruculose. Underleaves 

 large to small, cuneate to quadrate in outline, deeply quadrifid, trifid or bifid, 



