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praecipue, argute serrata, nervo ante apicem evanescente instructa. 

 Seta terminalis, solitaria, vel duae aut tres ex eodem puncto, 

 tripollicaris, laevis. Capsula semiunciam longa, cylindracea, ho- 

 rizontalis, rufo-fusca. Operculum brevi-hemisphaericum. Peri- 

 stomium flavo-aurantiacum, ext. e dentibus transversim striatis: 

 interius membrana reticulata sedecim-laciniata, laciniis perforatis 

 vel profunde fissis apice unitis, ciliis brevibus duabus vel tribus 

 his alternantibus. 



Notwithstanding the many curious Nepalese mosses which 

 I have already laid before the public, I still possess, by the 

 friendship of Dr. Wallicli, several new species. Among them 

 the present will rank as the most remarkable, for the great 

 size of all its parts ; while at the same time, in point of 

 general structure, it must be allowed to have great affinity 

 with the Bryum roseum of our own country, and with the 

 South African Bryum umbraculum, figured in Plate 133. 

 of my Musci Exotici. From the former it may, however, 

 be readily distinguished by its much longer and narrower 

 capsules and margined leaves ; from the latter, by the different 

 direction of the capsule, more spathulate foliage ; and from 

 both, by the leaves being much more distinctly serrated, and 

 by the much greater and even gigantic size of the plant. 



Fig. 1.2. 3. Plants : and Fig. 4. Single leaf, {nat. size). Fig. 5. 6. 

 Leaves. Fig. 7. Summit of ditto. Fig. 8. Capsule. Fig. 9. Por- 

 tion of the external peristome. Fig. 10. Portion of the inner 

 peristome: — 7nore or less magnified. 



