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A remarkable species, intermediate between R. canescens 
and R. heterostichum, but more closely allied to the last, from 
which it differs by the aspect, the yellowish color, the robust- 
ness and thickness of the stems, the pedicel twice longer and 
the teeth much more elongated. It is at first sight distin- 
guished from all the forms of R. canescens by the percurrent 
costa, the hair not papillose, and the capsule cylindrical, not 
inflated below. Its simple or scarcely ramulose branches 
give to this species rather the facies of a Dryptodon. 
Webera camptotrachela.—Stems erect, slender, simple or 
with few branches, 5-10 mm. long. Leaves little crowded, 
erect, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, If-14 
mM. 1ong, ¥ broad; borders plane or slightly revolute 
below, distantly denticulate in the upper part; costa strong, 
percurrent ; cells of the areolation elongated, subhexagonal 
or rhomboidal, 6-10 times longer than broad. External per- 
ichetial leaves more elongated, long narrowed-acuminate, 
more or less revolute on the borders, serrulate, with the costa 
eeoely excurrent; 2 or 3 inner bracts, smaller and shorter. 
edicel reddish, flexuous, often geniculate at base, 20-25 mm. 
ong. Capsule small, sub-horizontal or cernuous, wit 
ith a lo 
ery closely allied to W. annotina (of which it may be 
oy .4 sub-species), but differing in its curved collum an 
€xuous when dry, from a sheathing base, line 
r 
al, tetragonal or pen- 
d . 
apsule erect, finally epee rather narrowed 
aD0ve, 
‘agonal, rarely hexagonal, acute-angl 
