( 366 ) 
Sax river, Mindanao, 100 meters, on tree, Feb. 1905 
(2392). 
This species is somewhat like C. ceylanicum Card. but 
the leaves are relatively broader, shorter pointed and 
more plicate. 
Elmeriobryum Brotheri sp. nov. 
Evidently dioicous, the male flowers not found: plants 
in compact, greenish yellow cushions with more or less 
rocumbent stems, without paraphyllia, bearing radicles 
here and there in tufts and crowded, subpinnate, curving 
branches mostly 1 cm. or less long with somewhat secund, 
crowded leaves; stem-leaves about 1.4 mm. long by 0.6 
mm. wide, more or less irregularly plicate, broadly ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, entire, mostly shortly bicostate, the 
apex, concave and often somew plicate; cells of leaf 
smooth, very narrow and aa ne slightly vermic- 
ular, the ian about 4m wide and 40 4 long, the 
it 
slightly plicate, ecostate, the point entire or minutely 
serrulate with sometimes a few coarse teeth some distance 
elow the apex; seta smooth, up to 3 cm. long; capsule 
nodding, not quite symmetric, oblong, contracted under 
the mouth when dry, 2-2.25 mm. long without lid by 1.2 
in diameter, the exothecal cells irregular, mostly somewhat 
elongate, with thin walls, the stomata few and indistinct 
in the aaa neck; lid convex-mamillate; teeth of outer 
peristome brown, united to a little above the rim, closely 
ee with distinct zigzag median line and a hyaline 
border, the inner peristome pale brown, smooth, about as 
high as the outer, from a peel membrane one third to 
nearly one half the height of the teeth, the narrow seg- 
ments keeled, with narrow slits along the median line and 
1-3 paler, slightly papillose and nodose cilia between 
them; annulus broad, about two rows of cells in height; 
calyptra small, smooth, tapering-cylindric from a narrow 
base, slit about half way up; spores rough, mostly 22-25 pw 
in diameter mingled with a few up to 35 w in diameter. 
