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This differs from the usual Himalayan plant in having the cells 

 rather narrower and more opaque, and distinctly spiculose at back ; 

 there they are either smooth or very slightly spiculose. As the species 

 has not been recorded from Southern India it might be thought that 

 the difference should warrant its being separated specifically or sub- 

 specifically. But I have received a plant from the New York Bot. 

 Garden ex herb. Mitten " Ectropothecium rotatum Mitt. MS. ; 

 Koond, in rup, rorant., No. 55, Griffith," which must be referred to 

 E. covipressi folium, but agrres with Sedgwick's plant in areolation 

 entirely. I have not been able to locate " Koond," but it is clearly 

 in northern India, and therefore connects No. 6460 and the type of 

 E. compressifolium admirably. 



Taxithelium nepalense fHarv.) Jaeg. (Syn. T. turgidellum 

 (CM.) Par. Hypnum turgidellum CM. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. V, 

 p. 87 (1884). 



Guddahalli, Karwar (6402). On stones in stream, Sampkhand 

 (6451). Stones, Anmod, (3422) ; trees, Anmod (3264). All c. fr. 



The last two numbers represent a very fine form ; robust, with 

 leaves much less distinctly papillose than in the usual forms ; 3422 

 however is somewhat nearer the type ; and other plants of T. nepalense 

 which I have examined show so much variation than I do not think 

 it can be given varietal rank. 



T, turgidellum (CM.) is intermediate between No. 3264 and the 

 type, and is quite inseparable from T. nepalense. 



Vesicularia Levied Card. MS. in Herb. Sp. nov. (fig. 10). 



Sat robust um Caules usque ad 8cm. longi, subregulariter, confer- 

 tiuscule pinnati, ramis fig. 1 cm. long is velpaidlo ultra ; folia conferta 

 complanata, sicca leniter contracta. subdecurvata, majuscula 1. 5mm. 

 longa, dorsalia et ventralia ovato-lanceolata., acuminata, subfalcata, 

 lateralia late ovata, breviter nee anguste acuminata, apicem versus 

 denticulata, costis binis brevissimis; cellulae laxae, foliis lateralibus 

 14-17 /a latae (4-5 X I), parietibus firmis. 



Eructus haud visus. 



Hab. Ins. Andaman merid, ; Port Blair, leg. E, H. Man 1893, 

 [Ectropothecium reticulatum in Herb. Levier, no. 5138). Dharwar 

 District, N. Kanara (7279), leg. Sedgwick. 



Near to V. retictdata (Doz. & Molk.) but more robust, and with 

 leaves decidedly less longly and finely acuminate, less toothed above, 

 and cells rather narrower and firmer. 



Man's plant was distributed as Ectropothecium reticulatum by 

 Levier, Bryoth. exot., No. 90. 



The other Indian species are distinguished at once by either 

 their smaller size, more acuminate lateral leaves, or much wider cells. 



