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margine — basin recurvo; costa valida, dorso prominens, vix 
reurren: lati cell 
Areolatio major, cellulis bene distinctis, incrassatis, 
in seniabas sat Fe mea ree ce -rotundis, 8-12 p, 
levi o ta 35-4; 5 mm. longa, theca angustior, elongate 
anguste elliptica, orificio spe paullo atone leptoderma, 
wociese leviter plicata 
Hab ikkim, Kurseong, 1900 m., Oct. 1895; leg. Rev. 
Bretandean; det. C. Miller sub numero 1699 (Bryotheca 
HE. Levier) (sub nomine Scopelophile sikkimensis). Sikkim 
(Bryoth. E. Levier, nos. 7605, 7606, 7607, 7608). Prope Kur- 
8 . 
st Himensis is allied to M. minuta, ha is much more 
robust, with longer, more ees leaves, larger areolation, and 
a on capsule with narrower m 
erceyopsis hymenostylioides Broth. & Dixon, sp. noy. 
(ab, 508, fig. 6.) 
Syn. Merceya hymenostylioides Broth. MS. in sched. 
Late cseapitoas, pusilla, sordide viridis ; caulis brevis, sub- 
simplex, tenuis. Folia parva, laxa, apicalia plus minusve comata, 
patentia, sicca marginibus valde involutis fortiter incurva nec 
crispata; caulina breviter comalia longius lingulato- waar 
m. | 
nec crassa nee dorso valde prominens, sectione transversa late 
i0 
tenuissimis. Theca straminea, ore aurantiaco, breviter late ellip- 
tica, collo brevissimo distincto, orificio lat 
b. Simla, on walls, 6900 ft., 26 May, 1906; leg. E. Long 
ant KE. Levier, no. 7206, sub nom. Merceya hymenostylioides 
Quite distinct in the habit, in the leaves strongly enrolled and 
incurved but not crisped when dry, in the ou nag of the leaves, 
the stout nerve, and the delicate basal areolati 
7. Merceyopsis angulosa Broth. & Dixo on, sp. noy. (Tab. 
508, fig. 8.) Pusilla, atro-viridis, state scens; caulis per- 
brevis, subsimplex. Folia conferta, patentia ; sions tubulosa, 
fortiter incurva, nec crispata, subnitida; e basi 
ie. 
bene sea sat incrassata, cellulis 8-12 » latis, rotundis, in 
pagina ventrali folit tee mammose protuberantibus, dorso eequali- 
teed omnibus levissimis. . Seta 4-5 mm. lon nga, theca minuta, 
— , brunnea, 8-costata, costis e binis seriebus cellularum in- 
crassatarum alternis jibes tail efformatis, exothecii cellulis 
