122 4. SYRRHOPODONTE E. [ Syrrhopodon. 
This is placed by Hampe in the section Hyophilidium of C. 
Müll. Syn. i. 528, which includes a number of species not referable 
to the genus Syrrhopodon as here understood. R 
26. S. FIMBRIATUS (Mitt.) Compacte cespitosus; caules inferne 
radicellis purpureis intertexti. Folia erecto-patentia, incurva, teretiuscule 
imbrieata, marginibus tenuiter pellucido-limbatis, superne incurvis, apice 
paucidentieulatis, cellulis hyalinis ad medium usque folii longitudinis 
productis, inde ad apieem usque minutis rotundatis pallide viridibus pa- 
pillosis. Theca in pedunculo semiunciali rubro, ovalis, plicata, nitida, 
rubra, operculo subulato æquilonga ; calyptra subplicata infra thecam de- 
scendens setam amplexans, a latere fissa, peristomii dentibus brevibus. 
Hab. Fl. Negro et Uaupés, in sylvis humilioribus ad truncos, etiam in 
sylva Javita, ad caput fl. Atabapo, Spruce. n. 9. 
Species pulcherrima, S. ciliato Hook. ex Archip. orientali accedens. 
In caulibus junioribus folia magis oblongo-spathulata ciliis subæqualiter 
per ambitu illorum dispositis inveniuntur. 
Sect. 3. Orthotheca, Brid. i. 778. Folia firma, intense 
viridia, demum fuscescentia. 
27. S. BEnTERIANUS (Brid. i. 445, Dicranum, et 778, Orthotheca). 
Caules decumbentes, laxe czespitosi. Folia a basi brevi erecta patentia, 
rigida, sicca vix mutata, fusco-viridia, nervo crasso concolori percursa, 
marginibus concoloribus basi in parte erectiore ubi latius evadunt cre- 
nulatis, exinde ad apicem usque crassioribus, angustissime bilamellatis 
denticulatis, cellulis hyalinis ultra medium folii basis productis, supe- 
rioribus minutis pallide viridibus. Theca in pedunculo brevi, cylindracea, 
operculo subulato; calyptra fere ad basin thecze descendens, levis. 
Hab. Andes Peruvianz, in monte Guayrapurina, ad arbores (2500 ped.), 
Spruce, n. 5. Ins. Trinidad, Crüger; Sti. Vincentis, Guilding ; Jamaica, 
Wilson; Porto Rico, Bertero. Brasilia tropica, Burchell, n. 3344-8. 
28. S. CIRCINATUS (Brid. i. 416, Dicranum, et 779, Orthotheca). 
Cespitosus. Folia e basi erectiore subintegerrima, inde patentia, nervo 
concolori percursa, apice dorso paucidenticulata, marginibus superne in- 
crassatis anguste bilamellatis serrulatis, incrassatione inferne obsoleta, 
cellulis basi hyalinis paucis, superioribus oblongis flavidis, inde ad apicem 
usque parvis quadrato-rotundis obscuris. *'Pedunculo perichetialibus 
longiore, theca erecta, ovata, subinzquali orificio subobliquo."— Brid. Le, 
S. sordidus, C. Müll. Syn. i. 537. 
Hab. Venezuela, Carabobo (4000 ped.), Funck et Schlim. n. 617. 
Caulis j-uneialis. Folia sordide viridia. 
29. S. Hopsoni (Grev. in Ann. Lyc. N. York, i. 271, t. 23, Calym- 
peres; Hook. et Grev. in Brewst. Edinb. Journ. ii. 224). Dioicus; caulis 
