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tibus, apice immarginato subcrenulato, cellulis superioribus rotundatis 
obscuris, inferioribus hyalinis spatium inter nervum et marginem utrum- 
que zquidistans occupantibus oblongis, limitibus subrectangulis, fibris in 
spiram pluries tortis repletis, reliquis interioribus exterioribusque an- 
gustis elongatis inanibus; perichetialia ovalia, acuminata, acuta, minute 
serrulata, cellulis hyalinis conspicuis prosenchymaticis, fibris evidentio- 
ribus repletis. Theca immersa, ovalis, operculo a basi depresso in ros- 
trum tenue producto, peristomii dentibus brevibus solidis zequidistan- 
tibus ; ealyptra vix ad basin operculi descendens, multifida, parva, fusca, 
levis. Flores masculi gemmiformes, in apicibus caulium sæpe gemina- 
tim dispositi, ob innovationem etiam laterales. 
Hab. Fl. Negro, ad Sao Gabriel, Spruce, n. 3. 
Caulis 1-2 uncias altus, basi radicellis rufis preditus. Folia fulvo- 
viridia, lineam longa, sicca appressa, curvata. 
2. S. cryprocarpus (Dozy et Molk. Prodr. Bryol. Surin. 14, t. 7). 
Dioicus, czspitosus, humilis. Folia a basi erectiore patentia, ligulata, 
plus minus spathulata, obtusa, apiculo brevissimo, nervo dorso subscabro 
infra apiculum abrupte desinente, marginibus a basi usque ad folii medium 
teneris minute serrulatis, inde ad apicem bilamellatis, apice ipso immar- 
ginato integerrimo, cellulis superioribus rotundatis obscuris, hyalinis la- 
tiusculis fere totam partem erectiorem occupantibus, fibrillis obsoletis; peri- 
chetialia inferne oblongo-ovalia, superne acuminata.  Theca immersa, 
ovata, operculo convexo, rostro tenui elongato, peristomii dentibus per 
paria approximatis. 
Hab. Surinam, Van Beek Vollenhoven, Herb. Dozy et Molkenboer. 
Caulis j-uncialis. Folia lineam longa, sordide viridia, sicca appressa, 
curvata. 
The description of the fruit and perichetial leaves is drawn 
from the figure in the * Prodromus, Z. c. 
3. S. XANTHOPHYLLUS (Mitt.). Dense cespitosus. Folia a basi 
brevi erecto-patentia, dimidio inferiore ovali, superiore oblongo obtuso, 
nervo concolori percurrente apice dorso subscabro, marginibus incurvis 
superne subincrassatis, basi immarginata crenulata, cellulis hyalinis parvis 
spatium parvum triangulare utrinque occupantibus, inde cellulis elon- 
gatis flavis cito in rotundatas virides obscuriores transeuntibus areolata. 
Hab. Fl. Negro ad terram et rupes São Gabriel, &c., etiam ad Javita, 
Spruce, n. 16. 
Caulis i-uncialis. Folia 13-linearia, juniora flavo-viridia, inferiora ru- 
fescentia, sicca incurvata. 
Sect. 2. Eusyrrhopodon. Folia tenera, pallida. 
* Orthophyllum et Eusyrrhopodon, C. Müll. Syn. i. 534 et 540. 
4. S. LiGvLATUS (Mont. Syll. 47). — Parvulus, cum capsula centime- 
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