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tegerrimis , capsula ovata subiruequali horizontal* pendu- 

 lave, opretelo convexo acuminato. Nob. 



Syn. Pterygophyllum Montagnei : caule repente tereti 

 longiusculo subdiviso eleganter pinnatim ramoso _, ramis 

 oppositis compressis cequalibus lanceolato-obtusis ; fo- 

 liis laxe imbricatis semiampleocicaidibus ovatis ventri- 

 cosis subacuminatis enerviis s ubintegerrimis ihecce 

 incequalis ventricosa? tubereulatee infra os constrictee 

 oprenlo pyramidato acuto , calyptra mitrcejormi. 

 Belanger, Voy. aux Ind. Orient. Cryptog., p. 85, 

 pl. 9, fig. 1. 



Hypnum Montagnei , Schimp. in litt. 



Hab. Ad eortices arborum nsula? Java? ubi prhnus 

 omnium detexit amicissimus Belanger, demum specimina 

 fructfera in Galega nsula leda a el. Leduc habui com- 

 municata, tndem in Cuba eocemplaria perfectissima in- 

 venerunt etiam clarr. Ramn de la Sagra et Auber. 



Desc. Stirps repets, elegantissima , taxiformis. Caulis prima- 

 rius elongatus, biuncialis, longior, interrupte pinnatim ramosus, 

 cortici aliisque muscis radicularum ope validarum brunnearum 

 fasciculatarum adhserens repensque. Rami conf'erti, approximati, 

 simplices , breviusculi, bi-trilineares, corapressi, plerique alterni, 

 raro oppositi , patentissimi, nempe angulum rectum in caule effi- 

 cientes, sursum decrescenles , interdum gracilescentes et Iongio- 

 res, pice radicantes. Folia subbifariam imbricata, subdisticha, la- 

 teralia palentia amplexicaulia longius, media oblique inserta hinc 

 utroque lateri versa brevius acuminata . acumine ssepius incurvo 

 quandoque autern (imprims in caule) recurvo, omnia vero teera, 

 lete viridia, nervis binis brevibus divergentibus obscuris et obso- 

 letis inslructa, integerrima , rarissime apicem versus ob cellulas 

 marginales prominentes specie, non reipsa , dentata. Sane miran- 

 dum non esl si nervi Bclangerum effugicrunt , quippc qui sub 

 oculos nisi adaugmentum mximum microscopii composili oceur- 

 rere non possunt, et in foliis ramorum supremis plae deiciunt. 

 Rets areola; laxa; elongato-hexa-pentagona) granula chloroplnl- 

 lina sparsa includenles. Color lete vel intense viridis, in anieo 



