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Very distinct in the interrupted foliation, the pH acuminate, 
narrow leaves, and small cells, short even to the base 
Hymenostylium annotinum. Mitt. MS. in eee sp. n 
(Tab. 508, fig. 11.) Robustum, elatwm, ad 5 cm. altum; pete 
ABC cvs, fragilis. Folia inferne breviors, Taxa, ad apices 
mulorum comata, elongata, conferta; caulina e bast erecta ap- 
pane copinanita abrupte refleca, patula ; paunélia fan ngiora, minus 
patentia, ad 2:5 mm. longa, siccitate incurva; e basi breviter ovali 
sensim acutata, plus minusve acute acuminata, carinato-concava, 
rgini 1 
pelluci idis composita. Seta circa 1 em lta, gracili eca nr 
sat anguste — — nigricans, pachyder ma. an ignota. 
ab. hotan, 6500 ft.; leg. Griffith, no. 17 (in 
— We Mitten) 
pecifi me. 
comal tuft formed except at a point which is, or at one time h 
éen, the termination of a stem * branch; dag cc in the previous 
species the leaves ie comose at regular or irregular intervals 
along the. stems, w are ae more ments ‘“ annotinous ”’ 
than in the presen lek ant. 
_ Timmiella anomala (B. & ae 7000 ft., Almora, 
1910; leg. Miss E. ates ia mar a 
Hyophila subfiaccida Broth. & 5 Sp. nov. 
fig. 3.) Dioica. Humilis, sat dense cespitosa, saturate viridis, 
seete®. Lp erage mollis. Caulis vix ‘5 cm. altus, simplex ; folia 
inferiora pauca, remota, parva, superiora in comam rosulatam 
aggregats, pata, Sastints valde convoluta, incurvo-contorta, nec 
ispata ; e basi angustiore obovata vel pubapatholats, 2-2'9 mm 
ines crassa, versus apicem sagaeata | in mucronem breve macutum 
excurrens. atio superne semt-opaca, haud obscura, hexagon 0- 
rotunda, parum incrassata, 6-8 p lata, chlorophyllosa, minutissime 
papillosa, Mei basin laxior, pelincida, rectangularis, ad infimam 
elongata, hyalina. erichetii bractez Gatceis acute, e 
cellulis henboided instructe. Seta 1 cm rer inferne rubra 
ante. _Annulus Itiuscul, polabis interdum 
recta nec | deoperculata, 1-1-5 mm -lon &, operculo dimi- 
rsistens © Peristomiam nullum. Spori 8-10 
