152 V. F. BROTHERUS AND W. W. WATTS. 



Taxlthelium Spruce. 



T. (Polystigma, Aptera) Annandii Broth, et Watts, n.sp. 



Autoicum; gracile, csespitosum, csespitibus densis, depressis, 

 laete viridibus opacis; caulis repens, per totam longitudinem hie 

 illic fusco-radiculosus, dense et complanate foliosus, subpinnatim 

 ramosus, ramis patentibus, brevibus, valde complanatis, obtusis; 

 folia disticha, concava, lateralia erecto-patentia, ovato-vel elliptico- 

 lanceolata, breviter subulato-acuminata, marginibus erectis, sub. 

 integris, cellulis elongatis, augustis, seriatim papillosis, basilaribus 

 infiuiis laxis, hyalinis, levissimis; bracteae perichaetii internae e 

 basi vaginante raptim longissime subulatae, acumine recurvo, 

 minute serrulato; seta vix ultra 5 mm. alta, tenuissima, rubra, 

 levissima; theca suberecta vel subnutans, minutissima, ovalis, sicca 

 deoperculata sub ore paulum constricta, fusca; operculum breviter 

 rostratum. 



Tangoa, Santo: Annand, Dec, 1903 (Hb. Watts, 10, 17, 21 e. p.) 



Species T. nitidulo Broth, et Par. valde affinis, sed theca minu- 

 tissima, ovali jam dignoscenda. 



T. papillatum (Harv.) Broth. 



Aneityum: Gunn, 1913 (Hb. Watts, 471, 473, 477, 484, 486, 

 490-3, 498). Previous range: Nepal, Malacca and Siam, the 

 Sunda Islands, Papua, Fiji and Samoan Islands. 



T. substigmosum (C. M.) Broth. 



Tangoa, Santo: Bowie, 1906 (Hb. Watts, 59, comm. Murdoch). 

 Previous record : Papua. 



Vesicularia (O. M.) C. M. 



V. infiectens (Brid.) O. M. 



Epi, 2,000 feet: Riddle, Aug., 1911 (Hb. Watts, 127, 166, 169 

 c. fr.) Range: Hongkong and the Pacific Islands. 



Plagiotheciopsis Broth. 



P. oblonga (Broth.) Broth.; Ectropothecium oblongum 

 Broth, in Oef vers. Finska Vet. Soc. Porh. xxxvn, p. 170 

 (1895); Vesicularia oblonga Broth, in Bngl.-Prantl., 

 p. 1095 (1908). 

 New Hebrides: Micholitz. 



