EUCEPHALOZIA. 163 



9, Cephalozia Francisci [Ifoo/i.), Duiit. 



Jungermania Francisci, Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 49 (1810). 

 Cephalozia Francisci, Dum. llecvieil, p. 18 (1835). 



Dioicous, densely csespitose, flagelliferous, small, green to 

 reddish-green at the ends of the stems. Stems filiform, yet pro- 

 portionately thick, fleshy, procumbent, subramose, branches 

 ascending, with few leaves near the base ; radiculose, rootlets 

 plentiful at the base, hyaline; cortical cells about 15, inner 

 slightly larger, all opaque ; flagella numerous, leafless or with 

 minute leafy processes. Leaves patent-divergent or patent 

 spreading or subsecund, distant or subimbricate, small, oval- 

 orbiculate or broadly ovate, from ^th to ^rd bidentate, sinus 

 acute or obtusate, segments acute or obtuse, lower one usually 

 connivent; cells smallish, subquadrate, near the middle oblong, 

 marginal cells small, quadrate ; walls thick, no trigones or thickened 

 angles. Stipules large, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, rarely 

 oblong-quadrate, bidentulate. Inflorescence cladocarpous, ? 

 bracts 3 pairs, innermost much larger than the leaves, ovate- 

 oblong, bifid to about Jrd, segments lanceolate obtuse or acute, 

 recurved, unidentate on the outside ; bracteole free, ovate-oblong, 

 bifid ; sub-bracts oval, shortly bidentate, sinus obtuse, segments 

 acute connivent ; sub-bracteole broadly lanceolate bifid. Perianth 

 twice as long as the bracts, projecting about half beyond them, 

 narrowly ovate-fusiform, tricarinate almost to the base, mouth 

 6-plicate, entire, at the base 3 cells thick, at the middle 2 cells. 

 Calyptra lower half 2 cells thick. Pistillidia 5-8. Capsule large, 

 dark brown, almost black, oval-cylindrical, spores and elaters deep 

 red colour. 



Androecia on the middle or the ends of the stem or postical 

 branches ; perigonial bracts 3-7 pairs, closely imbricate, concave- 

 canaliculate, ovate-orbicular, bifid, sinus and segments subacute ; 

 perigonial bracteole linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Antheridia 

 sina^le, laro^e, oval. 



Sometimes gemmiparous, gemmse large, greenish to reddish- 

 ij^reen, at the ends of the stems. 



