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long as the calyx, very pale olive green. Capsule elongato- 

 ovate. Seeds and spiral filaments fixed on the inner surface 

 of the valves. This fine species approaches another Alpine 

 and Tropical one, Jung, cristata, Swartz, from Jamaica; 

 differing by the more simple shoots, the wider and less im- 

 bricated leaves, their more distant but stronger ciliation, and 

 by the absence of elongated declining shoots, radicating at 

 their summits. 



3. P. Chonotica, Tayl.j caule laxe ceespitoso, surculis erectis, 

 basi subnudis, subramosis, complanatis ; foliis imbricatis, 

 erecto-patentibus, ex angusta basi oblongis, rotundatis, 

 convexis, margine utroque recurvo atque spinoso-dentato. 



Hab. Chonos Archipelago, n. 434. Darwin, Hook. Herb. 



Tufts pale tawney. Stems 2-3 inches high, dendroid or 

 naked and simple below. The perigonia are small, short, 

 simple linear spikes, whose leaves are minute, closely imbri- 

 cated, tumid, denticulate. It has some resemblance to r. 

 fasciculata, Lind., but the shoots of this are much narrower, 

 the leaves shorter, more distantly and more minutely toothed, 

 the branches fascicled, and the cells of the leaves much more 

 minute. 



4. P. Amboynensis, Tayl. ; surculis laxe csespitosis, erectis, 

 vage ramosis, complanatis ; foliis imbricatis, erecto-paten- 

 tibus, late acinaciformibus, obtusis, margine inferiori den- 

 tato-ciliato, superiori integerrimo, recurvo ; perichsetialibus 

 calyce longioribus suberectis ; calyce terminali, ovato, com- 

 presso, hinc fisso, ciliato. 



Hab. Amboyna, Webb. Hook. Herb. 



Tufts loose, tawney olive. Shoots 1-2 inches high, den- 

 droid, straight, subpinnate, complanate. Leaves perichffitial 

 leaves and calyx dentate above and ciliated beneath on the 

 inferior margin. Calyx browner and shorter than the pen- 

 cheetinm. The outline of the shoot resembles that of P- J a ~ 

 vanica, Nees et Mont., but the present is a smaller and 

 browner species, with larger leaves, more ciliated at the base 

 of the inferior margin, while the calyx is much shorter. 



5. P. JMlenii, Tayl. ,• caule repente, surculis confertis, erectis, 



