visas dein ramifieationem dichotame Taseigg] 
folia frondalia maxime imbrieata equitanti-disticha, in apice 
frondis gemmulam dense clausam pyriformem angustam poly- 
phyllam sistentia, profunde complicato -concava, latere visa e 
hasi angustiore brevissimä reetangulari -ohlonga apice obtuso 
obliquata, fronte visa obiusata enervia integerrima, e cellulis 
densissimis coriaceis firmis elongatis inerassatis pachydermi- 
bus areolata, alaribus earentia; perich, minns equitantia ma- 
gis aperta cymhiformi-concava, latere visa e hasi latiuscula 
pro parte folii tota ovata lanceoleta obtuse et breviter acumi- 
mata, supra medium serrulato-dentieulata enervia; theca in 
ped. crassiusculo frondem aegnante levi fusco erecta parva 
aequalis ovalis macrostoma iruncata, operculo thecam multo 
superante e basi tumide conieca longiuscule acnminato recto, 
ealypträ pilis geuieulatis hirsuta omnino et ulira obtecto; 
dentibus angustis in erura duo tenera fissis albidis, 
Phyllogonium elegans Mitt. Musc. Ind. or. p. 115. 
Patria. Ceylon, reg. montosa temperata inter Pilotri- 
chum frondosum aliosque muscas parasitieum: J. Nietner, 
Gardner teste Mitten. 
©. elegans differt: fronde longiore angustiore loriformi, 
gemmula frondis apicalis minuta bifolia aperta, feliis dnplo - 
minoribus minus imhricatis, perichaetialibus ob dentes inae- 
quales majores hreviter ciliatis, calyptra hirsutissima pilis 
longe deeurrentibus haud geniculatis obteeta, dentibus peristo- 
mii multo robustioribus in crura lata fissis fuscidule albidis 
apice saepius confluentihus. 
2. O. elegans Reich, Novae Seelandiae. Phyllogonium 
elegans Hook. et Wils. 
3 0. Hampeanum C. Müll.; priori habitu simillimum 
loriformi - frondosum, sed gemmulam frondalem polyphyllam 
