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the Archipelago. It is not, however, the point of greatest 
elevation, even in the Mountain Province. 
The next most singular case is that of Weisia flavipes Hook. 
f. & Wils., for it is otherwise known only from New Zealand, 
Tasmania, and eastern Australia; the genus, however, having 
no apparent preference for any particular quarter of the globe. 
Two other cases of far-reaching northern distribution are 
Brothera leana (Sull.) C. M. and Plagiothecium neckeroideum 
Bryol. Eur., both found in the Himalayas and Japan, the former 
also in Manchuria and North America, the latter in southwestern 
Austria and in Switzerland. 
Trachypus humilis Lindb. is otherwise known only in Japan; 
Pohlia scabridens (Mitt.) Broth. and Pilotrichopsis dentata 
(Mitt.) Besch. only in Japan and Formosa; Meteorium helmin- 
thocladum (C. M.) Fleisch. in Japan, Formosa, and eastern 
China; and Catharinaea flaviseta (Mitt.) Broth. from Japan 
and the Himalayas. 
None of the rest occur in Japan, but all are found in the 
mountains of India, and seven of them there only, except the 
Philippine locality. These are Philonotis falcata (Hook.) Mitt., 
P. griffithiana (Wils.) Mitt., P. speciosa (Griff.) Mitt., Pogonatum 
nudiusculum Mitt., Trachypus subbicolor C. M., Rhacopilum 
schmidii (C. M.) Jaeg., and Stereodon deflexifolius (Mitt.). 
Broth. Bartramidula roylei (Hook. f.) Bryol. Eur., Ctenidium 
lychnites (Mitt.) Broth., and Pogonatum microstomum (R. Br.) 
Brid. extend to Ceylon, the last of these also to Yunnan; Fissi- 
dens areolatus Griff. and Leptohymenium tenue (Hook.) Schw. 
from the Himalayas to Burma; and lastly Erythrodontium jula- 
ceum (Hook.) Par. to Mysore in one direction and to Yunnan 
and Tonkin in the other. 
It therefore appears that among the non-endemic Mountain 
Province mosses, the species not found in Malaya, and those 
found in Malaya and elsewhere, are approximately equal in 
number, and that each of these is about twice as many as the 
purely Malayan species. In the species found both in the 
Mountain Province and elsewhere in the Philippines, the number 
of non-Malayan species was very small, and those found both 
in Malaya and elsewhere were two and a half times as many as 
those confined to Malaya. 
The 92 non-endemic species which have not been found in 
the Mountain Province give results altogether at variance with 
those found only in that region, and differ from these which 
have been collected in both regions in one very important respect, 
while they are in most thorough agreement with them in 
