BY C. J. WILD. 



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0-027 m.m., smooth ; operculum shortly conical obtuse, 0*3 m.m., 



high ; calyptra very narrow, glabrous, falling away early ; male 

 plant unknown. 



Brisbane River, (F. M. Bailey.) 



A very beautiful species, apparently allied to S. indicum 0. 

 Muell, which is only known to me from description, but it certainly 

 differs from it in color, form, and structure of the le ives, but not 

 in the shape of the capsule. V. F. Brotherus in BotaniscJies 

 Ccntralblatt, No. 42, N.P. 



Found on the walls of hot-house, Acclimatisation Society 

 Gardens. Originally recorded in 2nd Snp. Syn. Queensland Flora, 

 p. 70, without description. 



Meteorium Baileyi, Brotherus (Papillaria). — Dioecious ; branch 

 of secondary . stem very long, flaccid, strongly flexuose, leaves 

 dense, branches turgid, obtuse, short, remote j leaves pale green, 

 blackish below, somewhat shining, erect, laxly a'lpressed when 

 dry, very concave, from the base cordate-dilated, broadly ovate 

 oblong, suddenly narrowed into a long acuminate point which 

 is often broken off, strongly plicate, with wing undulatoplicate, 

 margins hardly undulate, plane, inflexed above, minutely denti- 

 culate ; nerve slender, vanishing below apex ; cells narrowly 

 linear, at the base shorter and laxer, everywhere distinctly papillose ; 

 perichsetial leaves lanceolate subulate, capillary attenuated, not 

 sulcate, very smooth, margins plane, remotely denticulate, cells rather 

 long and lax, very pellucid, nerve vanishing below apex ; para- 

 physes longly exserted, cellulose j in small bundles ; seta very short, 

 4 m.m. long, slightly curved, thick, pale, scabrous at summit ; 

 capsule (not quite mature), oblong-cylindric, erect, with short neck, 

 not striate, operculum conic, subulate, oblique ; Calyptra and male 

 plant not seen. 



Brisbane River. — F. M. Bailey. — It differs from P. polytrichia 

 (Dozy et Molkenb.), its nearest ally, in the long hair-pointed- 

 leaves which are distinctly papillose, and especially by the form and 

 structure of the perichaetial leaves. V. F. Brotherus in BAanisches 

 Centralblatt, No. 42, 



