SOME CRYPTOGAMS FROM CHRISTMAS ISLAND 848 
von Buitenzorg; and in the meantime we kt the following 
notes drawn from the Christmas ope plant. It is autoicous, 
with small gemmiform male flowers borne Sater on the stem; 
the plant is slender, and forms deprebesd pale green tufts; the stem 
are p . long, co nate; the meh a saa ‘ 
long, ovate-lanceolate acuminate, hollowed, w ere 
ulate ( below, markedly at apex), ‘Vith ie Shinai: ; 
one; the leaf-cells are elongato-hexagonal, 50 » long 
wide; alar cells 4-5, dee test to subrectangular. Porichsotial bracts 
long (up to 2-4 mm.), sheathing, erect, longly acuminate, serrulate. 
opot. icronesiense Fleischer, sp.n. Au- 
natim ramosus, ramis eho vix ultra m. ongis, ait 
complanatis, — Posen heist Folia disticha, caviuscula, 
eola m 
superne minuti isei “ae serrulatis, a apice obliqua, costis binis brevibus, 
obsoletis vel nullis. Cellulis parce chlorophyllosis, elongato-hexa- 
5 : - . : 
_ Vaginante sensim acuminate, enerves, integre; vaginula cylindrica. 
Seta usque ad 1°5 em. alta, erecta, flexuosula, ek aed basi scr 
levissima heca horizontalis vel inclinata, ovalis, asym 
minuta, sicca sub ore valde constricta, brevicollis, dba iltben 
pallida, fusea, operculum e basi convexo breviter apiculate um; exo- 
Annulus persistens; calyptra glabra. ’ Peristomium duplex: exo- 
stom dentes sicci apice incurvi. humidi conniventes, lanceolati, 
ati, m 
sime striati et alte lamellati, linea media notati ; endostomium 
flavidulum, at dentibus quilongi, carenati, dense papillosi, 
viz perforati; cilia singula, lata, breviora, hyalina, papillosa. 
Spore 15-18 » virides, punctate 
Patria : THs Christmas, Irvine Hall, ad truncos arborum, 
leg. * Specie N. Ridley (no. 212). 
. cyperoidt similis, sed foliis complanatis, me 
Genlitis, minus aria s{celiais) alaribus non conspicui 
sie sterili j jam re 
following s cae this species: Flying Fish 
Cove, a 204 ; Divephate Hill, nos. 203 (unlocalized), 207, 208, 
, 211 
15. E. monumentorum Jaeg. & Sauerb. Gen. et Sp. Muse. ii. 
p. 528 (1879) 
rvine Hall, no. 212 pro parte. 
Bucr Distr. Java. Sumatra. Banca. 
