Musct Exotmtici.—Gardneriani. 
CALYMPERES GARDNERI. 
Calymperes caule breviusculo, foliis linearibus margini- 
bus incurvis serratis, calyptra levi. (Tas. CXLVI.) 
Has. In Nepal, arboribus. Hon. D. Gardner. 
Radix fibrosa. Caules cespitosi, breviusculi, plerumque sim- 
plices. Folia undique inserta, erecta, vel erecto-patentia, 
flexuosa, siccitate torta, inferiora breviter, superiora longe li- 
nearia, obtusa, canaliculata, margine incurva, leviter incras- 
tense rufo-fusca, nitidissima, siccitate vix sulcata. ercu- 
dum capsula subzeque longa, e basi lata, planiuscula exacte sub- 
ulata. Calyptra magna, mitreformis, levis, non torta, cap- 
sulam omnino tegens, demum lateraliter fissa, dimidiata. Pe- 
ristomium membrana flavo-fusca, horizontalis, spongiosa, to- 
tum os tegens, medio radiato-striato, atque maturitate in den- 
tibus 16, brevibus, rufis, transversim striatis, basi semper mem- 
brana supradicta spongiosa unitis, fisso. 
Bide: PRESET 
ong the rich cryptogamic collections made by the Hon. 
Col. Gardner in the interior of Nepal, which have been commu- 
nicated to me by my most liberal friend Dr. Wallich, no one plant 
has gratified me so much as the subject of the present plate, not 
only because it adds a third species to one of the rarest and most 
c : 
Fig. 1, tuft of plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, single plant. Fig. 3,3 
Fig. 4, portion of ditto. Fig. 5, ‘ite fesiade fruit. Fig. 6 ioe a 
ptra. Fig. /, ditto more advanced. Fig. 8, ditto fallen from the capsule, 
ig. 9, capsule showing the young peristome. Fig. 10, peristome more 
advanced. Fig. 11, portion of ditto.—magn. 
* It may be thus defined.— Perist. simplex, e membrana spongiosa horizontali 
tra magna 
totum os tegens, demum mediv in dent. 16, brevibus fissa, Calyp » mi- 
is a) ic i a s 
stra at its and to what I also find on C. Gardneri. 
, Lowers which I possess on my specimen of C. P.lisoti are in axilla d 
terminal buds, and consist of anthers mixed with succulent filaments, sake 
