Complement au Bulletin de 1'Herbier Boissier, annee 1909. 



SPECIES HEPATICARUM 



Franz STEIMIAM 



Bryopteris Ldbg., 1844 



Plantae magnse robustse rigidae, flavescentes vel rufae vel brunneaB, 

 late expansae longeque prostratae. Caulis e caudice repente erectus 

 plumaeformis, pinnatus, arhizus, ramis suboppositis, bipinnatis vel 

 furcatim ramosus, furcis longis late divergentibus. Folia caulina imbri- 

 cata, disticha, magna, ovata, asymmetrica, acuta, apice serrata ; lobulus 

 parvus vel exiguus, inflatus, rarius subplanus, paucidentatus vel inte- 

 gerrimus. Cellulx bene incrassatse, inferne longiores, parietibus trabecu- 

 latis, interdum vittam medianam plus minus longam formantes. 

 Lobulus folii parvus, ob marginem late incurvum ssepe occultus, levis 

 vel dentatus. Amphigastria caulina magna, e basi obcuneata subrotunda, 

 apice dentata, inferne concava superne plana. Inflorescentia, dioica, in 

 una monoica. Perianthia in ramulo parvo terminalia, innovatione nulla, 

 angusta, levia, triplicata, plica tertia postica, rostro parvo. Folia floralia 

 plurijuga, intima caulinis longiora, lanceolata, validius armata, lobulo 

 magno, profunde soluto, similiterarmato. Amphigastrium florale intimum 

 foliis simile, angustum, alte carinatum, bifidum, grossius armatum. 

 Androzcia in ramulis terminalia, plus minus longe spicata. 



Africa 



1. Bryopteris Gaudischaudii G. 



2. Bryopteris madagascariensis St. 



