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ing of the specific name). The fruit may be described as follows 

 (Tab. 517, fig. 4) : — Perichaetia from the middle of the secon- 

 dary stems and branches, about 2 mm. long, bracts faintly nerved, 

 from a subsheathing base abruptly narrowed to a short, wide, rigid, 

 sub-ligulate denticulate point, which is patulous in the outer, 

 suberect in the inner bracts; areolation elongate, smooth, chloro- 

 phyllose, often with a single marginal row of narrow, retangular, 

 colourless cells. Vaginula large, hairy. Seta, 2-3 mm., straight 

 or slightly curved, yellowish, somewhat thickened and very 

 slightly roughened above. Capsule turgidly oval, with a short 

 neck, orange-brown, pachydermous, somewhat glossy, exothecium 

 cells large, firm-walled, irregular. Calyptra and lid unseen. Outer 

 peristome (fragmentary), yellow, teeth united at base, papillose 

 below, smooth above ; median line zigzag, sometimes perforated 

 above. Endostome (very fragmentary), a low yellowish, smooth 

 basal membrane with short (probably broken), subulate erect pro- 

 cesses. Spores about 25 /x, greenish. 



Symphyodon angustus (C. M.) Broth. Trees, alt. 4000- 

 4500 ft., Mahableshwar, Western Ghats, Jan. 1909, leg. Sedg- 

 wick (No. 27), c. fr. I have compared this with an original 

 specimen from Bombay in herb. Bescherelle, from C. Miiller, and 

 find that it agrees exactly. C. Miiller's description of the capsule 

 as " minuta, elliptica" seems quite inappropriate to his own speci- 

 men; the capsules measure 3 mm. without and 3*5 mm. wdth the 

 lid. The lid and upper third of the capsule are usually smooth. 



S. ASPER (Mitt.) Jaeg. Sikkim, comm. W. R. Sherrin (No. 5), 

 c. fr. 



? Entodon caliginosus (Mitt.) Jaeg. Darjeeling, 1911, leg. 

 Mrs. Roper (No. 9), st. A sterile plant, which I should have 

 referred without hesitation to E. orthocarpus (La Pyl.), were it not 

 that E. caliginosus (Mitt.), according to specimens ex herb. Mitt. 

 (No. 536, Bhotan, Griffith), in spite of the differences in cell- 

 structure described by Mitten, appears to be absolutely identical 

 with the European plant in vegetative characters ; the alar cells, 

 especially, seem in no way different. Griffith's plant, however, is 

 in fruit, and the capsules are distinctly shorter and wider than the 

 few I have seen of E. orthocarjms, and I hesitate therefore to 

 refer the Bhotan plant there. I have not seen Mitten's type, 

 which he describes from sterile specimens (he does not appear at 

 that time to have seen Griffith's plant), and the question must 

 therefore be left in abeyance; but it appears to need further 

 investigation. 



E. PROREPENS (Mitt.) Jaeg. Naga Hills, Assam (in skin of 

 flying squirrel from the British Museum), comm. W. R. Sherrin 

 (No. 14), c.fr. 



E. Thomsoni (Mitt.) Jaeg. Binsar, Almora, 1910, leg. Miss 

 Shepheard (No. 10), c. fr. Banks and stones, alt. 4000 ft.. Fort 

 Purandhar, Western Ghats, 1910, leg. Sedgwick (Nos. 135, 136), 

 st. ; (No. 105), c. fr., a robust, very glossy form with stout 

 branches, julaceous and curved when dry. 



