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the walls thickened; cells of the upper part of the leaf 30-40 X 30-40 /x, the walls 

 thin, the trigones small, the cuticle punctate. Underleaves orbicular to reniform, 

 wider than the stem, twice as broad as high, shortly bifid with broad rounded lobes, 

 the cells mostly isodiametric, thin-walled, the margin regularly crenulate. Plants 

 dioicous. Male inflorescence a short or long catkin-like branch, the bracts and 

 bracteoles in 3-10 series, scale-like, concave. Female inflorescence short, of 3 or 4 

 series of scale-like bracts and bracteoles. Perigynium and sporophyte not seen. 



PI. 69. Fig. 11, a-e. 

 Habitat: On decaying wood, trees, moist rocks and soil in forests. 



VENEZUELA: Silva Amazonica, San Carlos, Spruce, Hep. Sprue, (type MANCH, isotypes 

 BM, G, NY, Y). Bolivar: Chimanta Massif, near Summit Camp, 192S m, Steyermark & Wurdack 

 322 (NY). 



BRAZIL: Rio Negro inter Alobiellum, Spruce, neotype of K. masligophora (G) ; Rio Negro, 

 Spruce (NY). 



12. Calypogeia fissistipula Bischler, Candollea 18: 47. /. 15. 1962. 



Calypogeia nephrostipa Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 397. 1908. p.p. Non Kantia nephrostipa 

 Spruce. 



Plants of small to medium size, in yellow-green to brown mats; stems to 2 cm 

 long, with leaves, to 3.5 mm broad, irregularly branched; leafy branches, to 1 cm 

 long, ventral-intercalary from the axils of the underleaves, sexual branches short. 

 Rhizoids numerous, in hyaline tufts from small cells of the lower part of the under- 

 leaves. Leaves imbricate, weakly bordered, spreading-ascendant, plane, more or less 

 rectangular, 1.0-1.6 X 0.7-0.9 mm, the apex broad-rounded, the dorsal base curved, 

 the ventral base slightly decurrent; leaf cells of the upper margin 25-34 X 27-30 

 in places suggesting a border, cells of the upper part of the leaf mostly 30-40 X 

 26-33 jx, the walls thickened, the trigones conspicuous, with bulging sides, the cuticle 

 papillose. Underleaves more or less orbicular, to twice as broad as the stem, undi- 

 vided to retuse or conspicuously or even deeply bifid, the cells mostly elongate, 

 thin-walled, the margin obscurely crenulate or occasionally with a 1 -celled tooth, 

 not decurrent on the stem. Male and female inflorescences and sporophyte not seen. 



PI. 69. Fig. 12, a-e. 



Habitat: In dense mats on bark and decaying logs at low altitudes. 



VENEZUELA: s.l., Fendler (type G; G-1859, G-1860). Bolivar: Rio Tirica, 2090 m, 

 Steyermark & Wurdack 892 p.p. (NY). 

 PERU: S. Gavan, Lechler (NY). 



13. Calypogeia peruviana Nees & Montagne in Montagne, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 



Bot. 9: 47. 1838. 



Calypogeia abnormis Angstrom, Ofvers. Vet.-akad. Forhandl. 33(7): 80. 1876. 

 Kantia peruviana (Montagne) Trevisan, Mem. 1st. Lomb. III. 4: 425. 1877. 

 Kantia biapicula'a Spruce, Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 15: 414. 1885. 



Cincinnulus biapiculatus Stephani in Duss, Fl. Crypt. Antill. Fr. 169. 1903. Nomen nudum. 

 Kantia portoricensis Stephani, Hedwigia 27: 280. 1888. 

 Kantia vincentina Wright, Jour. Bot. London 29: 107. 1891. 

 Kantia heterophylla Stephani, Hedwigia 34: 53. 1895. 

 Kantia abnormis (Angstrom) Stephani, Hedwigia 34: 56. 1895. 

 Calypogeia portoricensis (Stephani) Evans, Bryologist 10: 30. 1907. 

 Calypogeia biapiculata (Spruce) Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 403. 1908. 

 Calypogeia dussiana Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 404. 1908 p.p. [excl. Duss 508.] 

 Calypogeia heterophylla (Stephani) Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 407. 1908. Non Stephani, Spec. 

 Hep. 6: 448. 1924. [from Japan.] 



