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arbor. leg. Adolf Seubert, Martio 1879). I have not been able to 
see an authentic fruiting specimen of S. pygm@a, but an authentic 
barren example from Borneo in the British Museum Herbarium 
agrees perfectly in vegetative characters with Dr. Geheeb’s plant ; 
and, further, the latter agrees so well—except in one particular 
mentioned below—with the description and figures of the fruiting 
-plant of 8. pygmea given in Musci Archip. Ind., that I feel little 
hesitation in regarding the Javan plant as S. pygmea—a species 
to me by Dr. Geheeb from Java (Wonosobo, 799 m. alt., ad trune. 
the inner peristome of 8. pygmea, we find it described in Musci 
Archip. Ind. p. 175, as follows:—‘ E. ciliis sedecim, dentibus 
doubtful. It is clear, however, that a slight modification of Miller's 
description of the inner peristome (‘cilia membrana basilari 
carentia’’) is required for at least some of the species of the genus. 
S. boliviana C. Mill. In the specimen of this species in the 
Kew Herbarium, labelled « Mapiri, Bolivia, 10,000 ft., May, 1886, 
leg. H. H. Rusby, M.D., nr. 8182,” the cilia of the inner peristome 
oh borne on a very reduced but still evident basal membrane (see 
fig. 18). 
Species, from the type in the Kew Herbarium, hick 
amined, showed only a rudimentary peristome, consisting of merely 
short projections indicating teeth, as shown in Wilson’s drawing in 
Lond. Journ. of Bot. vii. tab. 10 z (1848) ; no basal membrane could 
S. lava (Wils.) Jaeger. A single capsule, somewhat old, of this 
which I have ex- 
evidently a Schwetschkea, and seems closely allied to S. pygmea. 
S. gracillima (Tayl.) J aeger, This moss certainly does not belong 
to Schwetschkea, The inner peristome consists of slightly keeled 
processes, usually somewhat perforated along the median line, 
_the species of Schwetschkea, The species is best left under Mitten’s 
name Leskea gracillima (Tayl.). It was probably Taylor s descrip- 
tion—inner peristome of sixteen pale setaceous laciniw, united at 
the base by the inner membrane of the capsule ’’ (Lond, Journ, Bot. 
Vii. 192 (1848) )—that caused Miiller in the first place to suspect 
that the present Species might be a Schwetschkea, 
