376 WILLIAMS: CALYMPERACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA 
TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia near Bogota at 6000 ft. alt. 
DisTRIBUTION: known only from Mexico and Colombia. 
9g. SyRRHOPODON Husnoti Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 3: 195. 
1876 
Flowers and fruit unknown: in loose, brownish green tufts 
with slender, fragile, more or less branching stems up to 4 cm. 
high; stem-leaves from a conspicous, white, imbricate, oblong- 
linear or oblanceolate, entire base about 1.5 mm. long, somewhat 
narrowed to an abruptly spreading nearly straight, setaceous, 
more or less twisted point two and one half to three times longer, 
with pale yellowish, cylindric border, entire except at the dentate, 
acute, or somewhat rounded apex; costa not quite percurrent, 
smooth on both sides except at the denticulate apex, one half up 
leaf one third to one fourth the width of leaf, in cross-section 
showing four guide cells, stereid bands above and below with 
outer cells not differentiated; cells of upper leaf rather obscure, 
papillose on both sides, the median about 6 uw wide and 8-104 
long; cancellinae nearly filling leaf-base, terminating in mostly 
acute angles. [Fic. 9.] 3 
TYPE LOCALITY: Guadeloupe. 
DISTRIBUTION: Porto Rico, Guadeloupe and Martinique. 
10. SYRRHOPODON FLAVESCENS C. Miill. Syn. 1: 541. 1849 
Syrrhopodon parvulus Schimp. C. Miill. Syn. 1: 544. 1849. 
Syrrhopodon Schwaneckeanus C. Miill. Bot. Zeit. 13: 763. 1855- 
Syrrhopodon scaber Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 12: 119. 1869. 
Syrrhopodon calymperidianus Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 3: 19. 
1876.* 7 
Syrrhopodon subviridis Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 3: 196. 1876: 
Syrrhopodon scaber var. breviligulatus C. Miill. Hedwigia 37: 
235. 18098. 
Syrrhopodon breviligulatus C. Mill. Gen. Musc. 370. I90I. 
Syrrhopodon Dussii Broth. Symb. Ant. 3: 422. 1903. 
Dioicous: in compact yellowish brown to pale green cushions 
with branching stems, mostly 1-2 cm. high, bearing radicles at 
their base and often at the base of easily separating branches; 
stem-leaves when dry erect-spreading, flexuous, 5-12 mm. long, 
with an oblong-linear base 1-1. 5 mm. long, rather gradually nar- 
rowed to a linear point three to eight times longer and about one 
* Type specimens not seen but belonging here according to the description. 
