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2. SYMBLEPHARIS. 



SymUepharis, Montagn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, viii. (1837), 252 ; C. Mull. Synops. Muse. i. 

 460. 



A small genus of some half-dozen species, two of them occurring in India, 

 the Comoro Islands, and Java ; two are known from Mexico, and two are brought 

 from the Andes of New Granada and Quito. No species is yet known to 

 extend into more temperate regions of either northern or southern hemisphere. 



S. socotrana, Mitt. 



Dioica, laxe caespitosa, caulibus erectis simplicibus divisisve; foliis a basi subquadrata superne 

 latiora caulem amplexante cellulis elongatis pellucidis areolata subulalis patentibus, siccis 

 liamato-incurvatis canaliculatis, apice cymbiformibus subcucullatis integerrimis, nervo crass- 

 iusculo percursis, cellulis minutis rotundatis obscuris haud opacis, perichaetialibus confor- 

 mibus parum lougioribus ; tbecis in pedunculo mediocri erectis ovalibus calyptris 

 dimidiatis. 



Caulis centimetrum vix excedens simplex vel inferne divisus. Folia 2 mm. fusco-viridia firma. 

 Pedunculus 1 cm. pallidus. Theca vetusta evacua chartacea pallide fusca. 



Socotra. On the highest points of Haghier. B.C.S. nn. 1422, 1447. 



Distrib. Endemic. 



This species appears to grow in extensive loosely coherent patches, and 

 resembles in miniature the Indian and Javan S. Reinwardti, Mitt. (Gyrophyllum 

 Reinwardti, Dozy et Molk Muse. Frond. Archip. Ind. t. xlv); but it differs 

 from most of the few known species of the genus in the entire margin of the 

 apex of the leaf and in the more oval form of the capsule, all the examples of 

 which are very old ; a calyptra washed out from among the stems is of a 

 brownish colour, and split half-way up on one side. No vestiges remain of the 

 peristome. 



3. WEISIA 



Weisia, Hedw. Fundam. Muse. ii. 90 ; C. Mull. Synops. Muse. i. 648. 



A large genus of considerable dispersion over the globe, many species 

 having a very limited distribution. On Socotra there are two, both endemic. 



1. W. (Hymenostylium) SOCOtrana, Mitt. 



Dioica, humilis, caulis simplex divisusve; folia patentia subreeurva linealia obtusa marginibus 

 incurvis canaliculata integerrima, nervo crassiusculo in mucronulo brevissimo excurrente 

 cellulis minutis rotundatis densis distinctis basalibus paucis elongatis pellucidis, perichae- 

 tialia angustiora sublanceolata; tbeca in pedunculo subflexuoso erecta ovata leptoderma 

 gymnostoma exanulata operculo convexo acuminato. 



Socotra. Near Galonsir and Tamarida and elsewhere common. B.C.S. 

 nn. 1292, 12W pro parte, 1370, 1382, 1413, 1419. 

 Distrib. Endemic. 



