481 (19) 



Tortilla [SyntricJiid) Andicola Mont. Unduavi, 8000 ft. Octo- 

 ber, 1885 (3120). Sterile plants only collected. 



Large sterile specimens answering the description given in the 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. (Series 2, 953) and compared at the Jardin des 

 Plantes with the type collected by D'Orbigny near La Paz, in the 

 Bolivian Andes. 



Tortilla {SyntricJiid) acidcata Wils.? Mapiri, 5000 ft. April, 

 1886 (3123); Sorata, lOOOO ft. 



Compared at Kew with Spruce, no. 144 and Jameson's speci- 

 mens from Pichincha, both cited by Mitten under the description 

 of this species. Ours agree with Jameson's better than Spruce's 

 no. 144, and it would seem as if the two were distinct or the 

 species very variable. Bescherelle also seems to think there is 

 room for separation here, as he says : " T. aciileata Wils. affinior 

 sed primo viso differt. Foliis integerrimis, magis papillosis, duplo 

 longioribus, pilo valde longiore diversa, ut videtur — forsan species 

 nova? 



ToRTULA (Syntrichia) bipedicellata n. sp. Bescherelle, M. S. 



Mapiri, 5000 ft. May, 1886 (3123a). 



Plants in small yellowish-brown tufts; stems I-2 cm. high; 

 leaves not crowded, curled and twisted when dry, 3-4 mm. long, 

 without a hyaline point, the vein stout and brown, but ending in a 

 short mucronate point at the apex of the leaves; margins plane 

 or rarely slightly revolute below; upper cells densely papillose, 

 lower large, clear and oblong. Dioecious perichetial leaves not 

 differentiated. Pedicels mostly two together, .about i cm. long, 

 straw-colored; capsules 3-5 mm. with a long beaked lid, straight 

 or slightly curved ; mouth small, red ; peristome not developed. 



Closely related to T. glacialis Kze. Compared at Kew with 

 WeddeH's no. 20, collected in Bolivia, province of Larecaja, June, 

 1847, with which it agrees in the leaf characters but differs in hav- 

 ing the pedicels more uniformly in pairs. There is a mixture 

 also in this species at Kew, for the specimens collected by Lieb- 

 mann on Mt. Orizaba and Poeppig in Chili are very different in 

 aspect. Brescherelle says of them : " Affinis T. glacialis Kze., 

 foliis tamen duplo-longioribus, ad summum planis haud undu- 

 latis ; capsula geminore, peristomio non afformato." 



Tortida fragilisll2iy\ov7 Sorata, lOOOO ft. (3121). 



Compared with specimens at Kew collected by Lindig, New 



