495 
(28e) 
Phyllogomum viscosum Beauv. Near Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 
(3168). Also collected by M. Bang near Yungas, 1890 (565). 
Meteorium (Papillaria) Cladoniella C. M. n. sp. Near Yungas, 
4000 ft., 1885 (3189). 
Plants light yellowish-green, glossy; stems creeping horizon¬ 
tally, 10-12 cm. long; branches simple, 1-3 cm. long; leaves 
crowded, concave, plicate, appressed, with short spreading points; 
vein broad at base, or rarely lacking; apex suddenly subulate; 
margins minutely serrate; cells all papillose. 
Plants sterile. Alliance not determined. 
Meteorium lonchotrichum C. M. n. sp. Near Yungas, 4000 ft. 
1885 (3172). 
Plants bright yellowish-green, glossy; stems long, creeping ; 
branches irregularly pinnate, 2-3 cm. long; leaves 1-1.5 mm. 
long, undulate, crisped when dry, lanceolate-acuminate, serrate, 
vein ending below the apex, cells of the basal angles enlarged. 
Plants sterile. Allied to M. patulum Sw. 
Meteorium filiferum (C.M.) Mitt. Near Yungas, 4000 ft. 1885. 
(3173). 
Plants dark green or black with lighter yellowish branches. 
Youngest shoots very slender, filform, and totally different in as¬ 
pect from the older stems; stem leaves, entire, concave, the vein 
ending below the short recurved cuspidate point; basal angles con¬ 
spicuously inflated at the inner angle, with a small round group 
of yellow cells; leaves of the young branchlets much smaller, 
distant, narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, vein ending below the long 
filiform point; basal angles decurrent with the same conspicuous 
round auricle, at the inner point of insertion. 
Named from description, and compared with No. 131 col¬ 
lected by Weir, Andes Bogotensis from which it differs in aspect, 
and the presence of the long filiform branches described in the 
original. 
Meteorium (Pilotrichella) perinflata C.M. n. sp. Near Yun¬ 
gas, 6000 ft. 1885 (3171). 
Plants light yellowish-green, glossy; primary stems 10-15 cm. 
long, creeping; branches simple, 1-2 cm. long, or with a few short 
branchlets; leaves concave, the margins so completely incurved 
as to almost meet, quite entire; vein narrow, ending below the 
short, sharp-pointed apex; cells of the outer basal angles square, 
enlarged, slightly auricled and decurrent. Fruiting branches 
5 mm. long, perichetial leaves far exceeding the capsules, imbri- 
