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formia, erecto - patentia, celliilis basilaribus rectangulis, fere sub- 
liexagonis, fulvis, cæteris caulinis similibus, parce laxioribus. Seta 
radicalis gracillima, apice parce incrassata, crocea, adscendens, 
ramos parce superans. Tlieca parva riibra (junior) adscendens 
anguste oblonga incurvata, basi callosa, vel strumulosa, operculo 
curvirostro, theca breviore. 
Specimina in Brasilia australi leeta adservo. 
Ab H. pungenti differt: Caule crassiore, ramis teretibus den- 
sius foliosis, foliis firmioribus, cellulis alaribus reticulatis, seta 
radicali, nec axillari, longiore. 
e. cæspitosa, Rliapliidorrliynclia Scliimp. 
67. H. suhdepressum Hpe., Symb. XXIV, 1877. 
Prope Eio de Janeiro: G-laziou (7937). Prope Apiahy; 
Puiggari. 
68. H. leueostomum Hpe. 
Monoicum, sordide lutescens, novellis pallidioribus. Caulis 
decumbens ramosus, ramis subteretibus uncialibus, apice innovante 
ramulosis, curvatis. Folia inferiora undique dense imbricata, 
superiora bomomalla, ovato - oblongo - lanceolata, aeuminata coneava, 
integerrima, latere plus minusve revoluta plicata, enervia; cellulis 
alaribus numerosis rectangulis aureis, fere basin totam folii oceu- 
pantibus, cæteris inferioribus longioribus, anguste ellipticis utrinque 
acutis, versus apicem folii sensim brevioribus, plus minusve pellu- 
cida; pericbætialia erecta, vaginantia, adpressa, exteriora breviora 
coneava, ovato-lanceolata, interiora longiora attenuato-cuspidata, 
integerrima, enervia, omnia manifeste margine revoluta, cellulis 
longioribus linearibus reticulata. Seta brevi (3—4'") ad latera 
ramorum solitari, vel setis ternis, æquitantibus, adscendentibus, pallide 
rubentibus. Theca parva, pyriformis, liorizontalis, obliqua, rubra; 
operculo prominente umbonato, pallido, brevi-rostrato, deoperculata 
suburceolata, ochracea; peristomii dentibus exter. lanceolatis acutis, 
dense trabeculatis, linea verticali exarata, flavescentibus, ineurvis. 
