Leptolejeunea. franz stephani. species hepaticarum (Vol. V, 1913). 

 lata (0,9 mm. longa, superne 0,37 mm. lata, basi 0,47 mm. lata) apice 

 acuta, subsymmetrica. Cellulne supera3 18 fi, basales 18x36 jt. Ocelli 

 4, seriati 27 X 36 ji. Lobulus magnus, folio triplo brevior, subrectan- 

 gulatus, subrecte patens, duplo longior quam latus, carina substricta, 

 stricte in folii marginem excurrens, apice quam basis parum latiore, 

 reete truncato, angulo obtuso. Amphigastria caulina gracillima, disco 

 basali brevissimo obcuneato, apice late emarginato-bitido, laciniis 

 angustis late divergentibus. Perianthia parva, obovato-obcuneata, 

 inflata, plicis lateralibus magnis, apice truncatis optime triangulatis 

 obtusis, plicis posticis longe decurrentibus simillimis similiterque 

 truncatis. Folia floralia parva, perianthio plus duplo breviora, linea- 

 ria, apice rotundata, integerrima ; lobulo ad 73 soluto similimo vix 

 angustiore. Amphigastrium florale parvum, lobulis sequilongum, sub- 

 rectangulatum, duplo longius quam latum, lobulis brevissime coalitum, 

 ad medium bifidum, sinu obtuso, lobis linearibus obtusis porrectis. 

 Andracia desunt. 

 Hab. Cuba (Wright). 



44. Leptolejeunea elliptica (L. et L.) Spruce H. A. A. p. 194. 



Syn. : Lejeunea elliptica L. et L. Syn. Hepat. p. 403, 769. 

 Lejeunea Lynceil^X. J. of Bot. 1846, p. 396. 



Autoica vel dioica, pallide virens, in sicco brunnea, foliicola. Caulis 

 ad 15 mm. longus, irregulariter multiramosus, ramis longis, latediver- 

 gentibus pinnatis et bipinnatis. Folia caulina remota, oblique patula, 

 oblongo-elliptica, symmetrica (0,67 mm. X 0,28 mm.) apice obtusa. 

 Cellulse 18 basales parum longiores ; ocelli pauci, seriati 30X50 [x, 

 trigonis parvis vel nullis. Lobulus majusculus, foliotriplo brevior (ssepe 

 minor vel rudimentaris) oblique adscendens oblongus, duplo longior 

 quam latus, carina leviter arcuata, stricte in folii marginem excurrens, 

 apice quam basis vi\ latiore. tciincato. angulo apiculato. Amphigastria 

 caulina majuscula, disco basali obcuneato, apice truncata, angulis 

 setula armatis, setulis 3 cellulas longis, late divergentibus. Perianthia 

 in ramulis terminalia, exinnovata, late obconica (0,75 mm. longa, 

 apiceO,67 mm. lata^i apice lalc tnincata. anguli^ lr\ itcr erectis apicu- 

 latis obtusis, plicis posticis maximis, longe decurrentibus lateque 

 divergentibus, apice similiter truncatis ; rostro magno conico. Folia 

 /loralia perianthio parum breviora sublinearia, apice late acuminata 

 aeuta repanda, lobulo parum breviore, anguste lanceolato breviter 

 soluto, acuto repando. Amphigastrium floralc foliis Mibanjuilongum, 

 anguste ligulatuin, lobulis utrinque coalitum, apice breviter inciso- 



