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with a broader lamina; antheridia solitary, large, globose. Female inflorescence 

 terminal on the stem or a branch, with one subfloral innovation, the bracts and 

 bracteoles symmetric, larger than the leaves and underleaves, in three series, 

 the bracts to 2 mm long, 1.7 mm wide, divided to one-half of their length into 

 six or eight or more segments, ciliate as in the leaves, the lamina with scattered 

 superficial cilia. Perianth large, inflated, the surface covered with paraphyllia, 

 the mouth broad, of many narrow segments bearing long cilia. Shoot/sporophyte 

 relationship a shoot-calyptra with unfertilized archegonia up the sides of the 

 "ealyptra." Fig. 1, a-g. 



Habitat : Over the ground and on trunks of trees. 



CUBA: Oriente: crest of Sierra Maestra, Morton 9244, 9524, 9626 (US). 



JAMAICA: s.l., Swartz, (type S-PA) ; s.l., Wills 2 p.p., 3 (BM) ; Hardwar Gap, Baxter 4 

 (KANU), At. Farr 861 (IJ) ; Hardwar Gap to Waterfall, Porter 366 (IJ) ; near Mt. Airy, M. 

 Farr 80S (IJ) ; se slope of Stone Hole Bumps, 600-800 m, Maxon 9004 (US) ; Morce's Gap, 

 Patterson (Hb Fulford). 



TRINIDAD: Maraccas Mountains, Criiger (NY). 



MEXICO: Puebla: El Cerro Cahuatepec, 3500 ft, Sharp 1399 (TENN); Cafetal, Karstcn 

 type of T. mexicana (G) ; slopes of El Cerro de Cuguatepetl, Santos 3640 (Hb. Fulford). 



GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz near Coban, Turkheim 5810 (as T. mexicana) (G) ; Dep. 

 Quezaltenango: Fuentes Georginas, 2300-2500 m, Standley 85862, 86002 (F) ; Alta Verapaz 

 near Cubilqiiitz, Steyermark 44482 (F) ; El Progreso, near Volcan Santa Luisa, Steyermark 

 43528 p.p. (F) ; Huehuetenango, Cerro Huetz, Steyermark 47415 (F). 



COSTA RICA: near La Palma, Maxon (NY); s.l., Brenes 19136 (Hb. Fulford); Santa 

 Clara: Cartago, Torres 213 p.p. (F). 



PANAMA: Chirique: near El Hato, Stern & Chambers 68 (Y). 



COLOMBIA: Bogota, Weir (NY); Cauca: Cordillera Central, Quebrada del Rio Lopez, 

 Cuatrecasas 18921 (US). 



VENEZUELA: near Merida, Alston 6920 B (BM) ; Estado Bolivar: Chimanta Massif, 

 Abacapa-tepui, Steyermark 75025 p.p. (F). 



BRITISH GUIANA: Mt. Roraima, Vie 624 (as T. allionii) (G) ; s.l., Quelch, type of 

 T. grandifolia (G). 



BRAZIL: S. Catarina: Morro d e Bateia Brusque, 360 m, Beits 1933 (HBR) ; Alto da 

 Serra, Hoehne 535, type of T. pterophylla (Hb. Herzog). 



ECUADOR: Rosario, Allioni 6642, type of T. allionii (G) ; Mt. Tungurahua, Spruce, isotype 

 of L. cristacastrensis (NY) ; Spruce, Eepat. Sprue, isotype of L. sphagnoides (NY) ; Canelos, 

 Spruce, Eepat. Sprue, (as L. tomentosa var. canelensis p.p.) (NY); Chirimoyga, Bell 302B 

 (BM); s.l. Fraser 16 p.p. (BM). 



BOLIVIA: Incachaca, Brooke 6811 (BM) ; s.l., Herzog 4553 (as T. allioni) (G). 



The species has also been reported in the following, Cuba (Welch, 1950) Jamaica (Pear- 

 son, 1931), Puerto Rico (Pagan, 1939) ; Guadeloupe: (Bescherelle, 1893; Jovet-Ast, 1947, 1960; 

 Stephani, 1904), Dominica (Spruce, 1889, 1895; Pagan, 1942; Pearson, 1922), Mexico (Gott- 

 sehe, 1863); Costa Rica (Haupt, 1942; Herzog, 1938a 1 ), Colombia (Gottsche, 1864), British 

 Guiana (Stephani, 1901c), Argentina (Kiihnemann, 1949), Magellan Straits — Tjerra del Fuego; 

 Angstrom, 1876; Massalongo, 1885, 1927; Sehiffner, 1889; Spegazzini, 1922). With the 

 distribution data and the many collections which are now available, it would seem that the 

 reports from the tip of South America should belong to another species. 



2. Trichocolea uleana Stephani, Spec. Hep. 4: 55. 1909. 



Plants of medium size, in pale yellowish-green tufts ; stems to 5 cm long, witli 

 leaves to 1 mm wide, pinnate to irregularly bipinnate, the branches mostly 3-4 

 cm long ; stems in transverse section 10-12 cells across, the unistratose cortex of 

 smaller cells than those of the medulla ; stem paraphyllia absent. Line of leaf 

 insertion oblique, the dorsal portion very long, the leaves succubous. Leaves 

 imbricate, asymmetric, decurrent, to 0.8 mm long, 1.3 mm wide, divided to near 

 the base into five or six unequal, branched, triangular segments, ciliate with a 

 few long, usually simple cilia with cells averaging 92 X 13^., the cuticle striolate- 

 papillose; lamina two to four cells long, the cells averaging 48 X 29 p. through- 



