450 MR. E. 8. SALMON ON 
GYMNOSTOMUM INCONSPICUUM, Griff. (Pl. 17. figs. 12-18).— 
China: Mt. Omei, Szechuen (Dr. E. Faber, no. 1111). 
This species was originally discovered by Griffith in India (* in 
rupibus madidis, Churra Punjee," Khasia), and published by him 
in 1849 (Not. ii. p. 394). Up to the present time nothing more 
seems to have been known aboutthe moss. Mitten when writing 
the “ Musci Ind. Or." had not seen the plant, which he placed 
doubtfully in the genus Hymenostylium. Subsequently, however, 
Mitten saw the original specimens of Griffith’s (which were 
unnamed), but, apparently overlooking their identity, appended 
to them the MSS. name of Gymnostomum (Hymenostylium) tri- 
quetrum, Mitt. Taese specimens (now in the Kew Herbarium) 
are labelled as follows :—** On dripping rocks, Khasia Mountains, 
No. 26”; “on dripping limestone rocks, Devil's Hole, Churra, 
No. 843," and * Moosmai, in caves with Targionia, no. 174." 
Griffith's specimens have only a very few capsules, and are 
(perhaps through age) uniformly flavescent in colour ; the Chinese 
examples are bright green above, and abundantly fruiting, with 
capsules of a bright copper colour. @. inconspicuum shows 
affinity with G. curvirostre, Hedw., from which it differs in 
the more robust habit, larger, wider, more patulous leaves, not 
reeurved at the margin, and in the capsules being of the colour 
of those of G. aurantiacum. The following description is drawn 
up from the examination of the Indian and Chinese plants. 
G. INCONSPICUUM, Griff. Not. ni. p. 394 (1849). 
? Hymenostylium inconspicuum, Mitt. Musci Ind. Or. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc., Bot. iii. (1859), Supp. p. 33. 
Gymnostomum (Hymenostylium) triquetrum, Mitt. MSS. in 
Herb. Kew. 
Dioicum ?, late ezspitosum, lete viride, inferne flavescens inter- 
duminerustatum, caule erecto 8-10 cm. alto simplice vel plerumque 
ob innovationes multoties di- raro trichotome diviso flexuoso, foliis 
confertis triseriatis undique subpatulis siccitate subtortilibus e 
basi ovata suberecta amplexicauli lanceolatis acuminatis concavo- 
carinatis, nervo excurrente lutescente, margine plano integro, 
cellulis pellucidis levibus superioribus quadratis vel irregulariter 
et breviter rectangulis inferioribus elongato-rectangulis omnibus 
state parietibus incrassatis interruptis, folis perichetialibus 
eonformibus, paraphysibus filiformibus, capsula in pedunculo 
innovando pseudolaterali erecto rubro 7-9 mill. alto gracili 
levi oblonga vel obovata erecta parvula circiter 1 mill. longa 
