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taining Octoblepharum reeurvum and Octoblepharum tetensi, and Tropinotus, containing 

 Octoblepharum albovirens, and Octoblepharum vitianum. 



The section Trachynotus, composed as above, is therefore not different from Arthro- 

 cormus ; and Leionotus is exactly the original Leucophanes. The group is placed between 

 Sphagnaceae and Fissidentece, and is thus isolated. When more is known respecting the 

 species hitherto seen only barren, it may be found that their nearest affinity is with 

 Syrrhopodon, from which it is even now not very easy to distinguish some species allied 

 to Syrrhopodon tristichus. 



Syrrhopodon (Orthotheca) croceus, Mitt. 



Syrrlwpodon (Orthotheca) croceus, Mitt, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., iii. Suppl. p. -11. 



Admiralty Islands. — A form having short stems, bearing a few old capsules. 



Occasionally specimens of this are found nearly four inches high ; it appears to be 

 widely spread in the Pacific, and is found in Ceylon. Midler, not having seen the fruit nor 

 calyptra of this moss, has placed it in Calymperes. 



Syrrhopodon (Eusyrrhopodon) albovaginatus, Schwiigr. 



Syrrhopodon (Eusyrrhopodon) albovaginatus, Schwiigr., Suppl, t. 131 ; C. Mull, Synopsis Muse. 

 Frond., i. p. 541. 



Admiralty Islands. — Specimens bearing very young fruit. Also in the Isle of Pines, 

 Fiji, Samoa, &c. 



This well-marked species is easily recognised by its leaves being divergent with a con- 

 siderable interval between them, a character but little altered when they are dry. The 

 Syrrhop>odon grceffeanus, C. Mull, in Journ. Mus. Godef., is Syrrhopodon Imvigatus, 

 .Mitt, in Seem. Fl. Yit., p. 389. 



Syrrhopodon (Eusyrrhopodon) ciliatus, Schwiigr. 



Syrrhopodon (Eusyrrhopodon) ciliatus, Schwiigr., Suppl., t. 130 ; C. Mull, Synopsis Muse. Frond., 



i. p. 544. 

 Weisia ciliata, Hook., Muse. Exot., t. 171. 



Admiralty Islands. — In very small quantity, but bearing fruit. It also inhabits 

 various islands of the Malayan Archipelago. 



Calymperes dozyanum, Mitt. 



Calymperet dozyanum, Mitt, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., iii. Suppl p. 42. 

 Calymperes moluccense, Dozy et Molk., Eryol. Jaw, i. p. 47, t. 37, non Schwiigr. 



Admiralty Islands. — A well-fruited specimen. 



This species is found also in Samoa, Java, the Philippines, and Ceylon. It is very 

 different from Calymperes moluccense in its more spathulate leaves, not dilated above the 







