222 Drs Hooker and Greville On the Genus Calymperes 



Hab. St Thomas, in the West Indies, and French Guiana, Richard. 

 Abundantly upon the bark of trees in the island of St Vincent, and also 

 in the island of Grenada, upon the trunk of Bignonia leucoxylon, Rev. L. 

 Guilding. Barbadoes and Dutch Guiana, C. Parker, Esq. Oware on the 

 coast of Africa, Pal. de Beauvois. Sincapore, Dr WaUich, but without 

 fruit. 



This species is remarkable for the obtuseness of the leaves, and for their 

 being quite entire at the margin. They are likewise shorter and broader 

 than in any species with which we are acquainted, but not so much so as 

 those of C. Berterii are represented to be. 



Many of the upper leaves are lengthened out, and spathulated at their 

 extremity, bearing on their upper surface a cluster of conferva-like bodies. 

 The species varies in length, many of our fructified specimens from St 

 Vincent's being only half an inch long, while those we have from Barba- 

 does and from Sincapore are from an inch to an inch and a half in length. 



Upon the capsules of our most perfect specimens, we have found a mem- 

 brane stretching across the moutb, but have never been able to detect the 

 radiated appearance represented by Schwaegrichen. 



2. C. Moluccense, " caule subsimplici, compacto ; ramulis 

 vix conspicuis, foliis densissimis, capsula brevioribus, lanceo- 

 latis, obtusis." Schivaegr. 



Calymperes Moluccense, Schwaegr. Suppl. II. 2. p. 99. t. 127. 



Hab. In Bauwack, one of the Molucca islands, Gaudichaud. 



This species, which we do not possess, and of which not a very excel- 

 lent figure is given by Schwaegrichen, in his last supplement, resembles 

 C. Palisoti, of which Schwaegrichen thinks it might be made a variety. 



3. C. Berterii, " foliis ovato-oblongis, apice dentatis, seta 

 elongata." Spreng. 



C. Berterii, Spreng. in Neue Entdeck, v. 3, p. 1. 



Hab. upon the ground in Hispaniola, Bertero. 



This appears, from the form of the leaves, to be most nearly allied to 

 €. Palisoti, except that here they are described as ovate-oblong, and 

 toothed at the extremity. 



4. C. Afzelii, caule elongato, foliis linearibus marginatis, 

 apicem versus serrulatis, siccitate tortilibus marginibusque 

 involutis ; seta foliis subduplo longioribus. 



Calymperes Afzelii, Spreng. in Jahrb. der Gewaechsk. p. 3. t. 1. 1818- 

 Hab. Sierra Leone, Stvarfz. We have received specimens from Mr 

 Dickson gathered on the west coast of Africa. 



Although Steudel in the second volume of his Nomenclator Botanicus, 

 seems to consider this as the same plant as C. Palisoti of Schwaegrichen, 

 (in the text, but not in the plate,) it appears to us to be sufficiently dis- 

 tinct, judging as we do, both from the figure in Sprengel's work, above 



