94 Marsupiocarpeae 



Although it is exceedingly probable that Kantia [^=Cahjpogeia § B 

 Eaddi, Nees) is a marsupial form of TriyonanthecB, it is difl&cult to fix on 

 any one genus of that tribe of which it may be the direct descendant. 

 Its nearest existing ally seems to be Bazzania (i.e. Mastvjohryum), and 

 two species of Kantia are actually described and figured in Gottsche 

 and Lindenberg's monograph as Mastigobrya, the one on tab. 2 as M. 

 alternifolium Nees, from Java and Nepal ; the other on tab. 3 as M- 

 cellulosiim {=Jung. cellulosa Spreng.) from the West Indies. As I have 

 myself gathered the latter in the Andes I can speak of it with confidence. 

 Both species differ essentially from Mastigobryum in the entire absence 

 of a dichotomous ramification and of flagella, and agree with Kantia in 

 every particular, especially in the presence of long stout cauline radicles 

 — often clubbed at the end — such as are never seen in Mastigobryum. 

 No true species of the latter, indeed, shews any near approach to Kantia, 

 or any sign of an adherent f much less of a pouched) involucre. 



Kantia agrees with Cephalozia in having all the branches, whether 

 foliiferous or floriferous, postical, axillary to the underleaves; in the 

 monandrous (f bracts and the 2-layered capsule. In aspect and leaf- 

 structure it is very like some species of the section Alobiella; but the 

 leaves are constantly incubous, while in Alobiella they are succubous, 

 and only in Al. integrifolia, which has the leaves almost longitudinally 

 inserted, is an incubous leaf very rarely interposed among normally 

 succubous ones. 



The only genus of Trigonanthecs which has an involucre partially 

 adherent to the perianth is Anomoclada ; and, in reality, when viewed 

 from above, Anomoclada mucosa shows considerable external resemblance 

 to Kantia, but differs essentially in having all the leafy and flowering 

 branches antical, and only the rooting flagella postical, and in the suc- 

 cubous leaves. 



In offering a resume of my speculations on this subject, I do not claim 

 for it more than a provisional importance. If, for the sake of com- 



Capenses : 

 C. scariosa (Lehm.. Jungermania ; Gymnomitrium sc. Syn. Hep.) 



C. renifolia CMitt., Lindigina). 



Oceanicae et Australienses : 

 C. sgttamata ('Tayl., Podanthe ; Lethocolea Drummondii Mitt.) 

 C.prostrata CMitt., Lindigina). 



