CEYLONESE MOSSES 261 
LEUCOBRYACER. 
raghemcly ov javense (Brid.) Mitt. Shaded bank of waterfall, 
near N. E rel 73). 
ringit Mitt. Side of stream, N. E. (75); tree in jungle, 
below ise waterfall, N. HE. (251). 
DL. neilgherrense C. M. Pedrutalagala (230). 
Leucophanes glaucescens C. M. Palm stem, Peradeniya Gar- 
dens (18). 
Octoblepharum albidum (L.) Hedw. Palm stem, Peradeniya 
Gardens (3). 
FISSIDENTACE 
Fissidens Schmidit C. ae Feat feat bank, N. E. (89); 
shaded stone, foot of Ped. (25 
Fissidens arity sberrans Broth. & Dixon, sp. nov. 
(Pl. 540, fig. 3.) Dioicus, fi. c. plures ad basin surculorum 
sterilium. Fl. mase. aut cae paucifolius, cauli perbrevi 
terminalis. Gracilis, humilis, laxe csespitosus, pulehre viridis 
longiores, 3-5 mm. longi, pluryugi, foliis equalibus regu- 
lariter plumosi. Folia minima, circa ‘6 mm. longa, stricta, sicca 
minime mutata, paullo contracta, anguste oblongo- ‘lanceolata, 
breviter acuminata, ppd sima; lamina vaginalis circa fol. 
longitudinem squans, . dorsalis infra perangusta, picketed 
supra basin evanida; ae validiuscula, concolor, swbpercurrens. 
Limbus totam folium fere cingens, in lamina vaginali sat validus, 
ceterum angustus, viridis, apud folii apicem sepe evanescens. 
Rete laxum, e cellulis chlorophyllosis vel pellucidis sat magnis, 
irregulariter rhomboideo- ne ie = p» latis, levibus, parietibus 
angustis, instructum, lamina vaginali e atis, plerumque rectan- 
gularibus, valde shicsiph lice Rake terminalis, perbrevis. 
Cetera nulla. 
Hab. Peaty roadside bank, half-way to Hakgala, N. E., cum 
setis (89). 
Differs from F. Schmidit and the other Indian species of 
Bryoidium in the habit, the leaves yregene altered in re ng, 
and the lax areolation, much longer in the vaginant lam The 
areolation, and the nerve and au mii me Eg to the 
apex separate it from F’. Zollinger 
F. Beckettii Mitt. has atinee is no distinct sterile stems, the 
leaves much larger with stout excurrenf nerve and very lax 
areolation. 
F. pennatulus Thw. & Mitt. Bank of shaded brook, N.E. (252) ; 
shady bank of stream, gr Pass (254); stone in shade by 
stream, hig raed c. fr. (402). 
Thw. & Mitt. ti aspertfolius ete & Fleisch.). 
Kandy (13). I have preg! compared F. a sia (No. 12, 
eo leckek Muse. Fr. Arch. Ind.) with the cee . virens at 
Kew, and I do not find the differences — on by pietner 
sufficiently constant to warrant its separation as a s The 
lid varies in its length, relative to the length of the aaa Tg in 
