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Dioicus. CespUes lad et latissimi, virides vel (vUtlefusccscenles. CauUs unciaUs vel 

 major, erecttis^ simplex vel parce innovando ramostts, ad medium usque radicans. 

 Folia difficile emollieiida, contorquata , reniota, eredo-patentia , hasi elongata e medio 

 oblonjO'OvaUi , detiU'culata , deiii cuspidala uiciso-serrata , costa vaUda in cuspidem 

 longam dcainente; celhilis chlorophyUosis ad apicemfolU suhmmoidm, in/ens ad cos- 

 lam diipio longiortbus penla- vel hexagonis, ad margined qiiadralia. Capsula in pedi- 

 cello J- 10 mill, longo crasao ovata vel clavalo-cylindrica, basi attenuata, brevicolla , 

 laivts ; opercnlo breviler conico ohUise mucronuto. Pen'slomium simplex ladun ercclam 

 deniibm 3q vel 8 bigeminatis coadunatis , linea mnltangnla vix longitiidimditer exa- 

 ratisf late lanceolalis Jirmis apice incurvis, Calyptra magna, cojiica, medio ventricofta, 

 capsula valde hrevior, stramtnea, basin veraus comlrida, U-fda, apice papillifi litja- 

 Itnis amplis oblique exsertis srabra. Spor(p minuto'. Plania mnacula r^ms/???^ rolhrta 

 crassior mnioidea f perigonio diacoideo tenninali , folUs majoribus ohloiigo-acnminatis 

 minus longe lobato-sermds, paniphtjsibus clavalis, aulliciidiis fusds. (Huscliorcllc, 

 loc. cit.) 



Madajfuscar, Nord-Ouesl (Pervilit?). Zone luoyc'iiiie Jcb for^ : fuicl ilc Manouyuiivfi 

 (Drouhard: herb. Goppey). Plateau central: Ankadivavalu (R. P. CamboutJ), Amperifery (R.P. 

 Campenoa), pays Belsileo (R. P. Villaume : herb. Lacouture). 



Distribution gkooraphiqle: Reunion, Gameronn. 



Au sujet de la synonymie fort confuse tie cetle espt'ce et de la sulvaiito, 

 on coiisultera utilomeiit ce queu dit Besclierelle, FL brijol. de la Reunion, etc., 

 p. 8/i-85. Mais je ferai remarqiier (jue cet aiiteui^ a eu tort d'exhumLM* le 

 nom manuscrh d'Orlhodon horhomcas Bory in licrb. Gosson, puisqu'en iSSg 

 Mitten avait cr^^ le nom de Tuyhria Bonjana pour la Mousse de la Rduiilon ;\ 

 coiffe scabre. (J. Gardot.) 



3 . Tayloria IsLEANi (Besch.) Broth. , Musci, p. 50.1 ( i (joH ). 



OcTOBLEPHARCM SEiutATiM (Bory) Bild. , Sp, Musc. , I, p. 86(i8oC), in parte. 



DiSSODOs SERRATL's C. MuU. , S^H. , I, p. i4l (iS^g), in parte, 



Orthodon Isleam/s Besch., FL hnjoL lieunion, etc., io Ann. Sc. mU. Dot., 6'8^r., IX, p. 878 [85] 



(1880). 

 ?TAVLomA WDicA Mitt.; Wright, inJourn. of Dot., WVI, p. 265 (1888). 

 DissoDON MADAGASSCs C. Miill. , vi schcd. , ct opiul Wright, in Jotirn. of Dot., XXV(, p. aGS 



(1888), notnpn solum. • 



DissoDON IsLEWL's Par., Ind. hnjoL, ed. i» p. 384 (iSgS). 

 OiiTimoo.N- MAUAGASSDS Ren., Prodr., p. 108 (1897), mmfu mhm. 



Habitu r 0. borbonicon simillimus. Folia magis inriso-sen-ata, denUhus majoribus 

 pluricelluMs aduncis longe aculioribus, casta in cuspidem nodosam longiu>i desi- 



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