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CUBA: Oriente: Sierra Maestra, 1100-1400 m, Ekman (UPS). 



JAMAICA: path to Morce's Gap, Evans 47 (Y) ; road from Morce's Gap to Vinegar Hill, 

 Underwood 1375 (NY, Y) ; Newhaven Gap, 5500 ft, Underwood 1066 (NY, Y). 



ST. KITTS: sJ., Breutel (type S-PA, G, NY [as 'West Indies']); Mt. Misery, N. L. Britton 

 & Cowell 531 (NY, Y). 



GUADELOUPE: s.l. or without coll., ex Hb Hooker (NY), si, I'Herminier (BM). 



COLOMBIA: Bogota, Hb Mitten (NY). 



BRAZIL: s.l., Glaziou 9032 (NY). S. Paulo: Alto da Serra, 900 m, Schijfner 404 p.p., 406 

 (W, UPS). 



ECUADOR: Tungurahua: Cordillera de los Torres, Asplund (S-PA); Rio Timbara, Krause 

 (S-PA). 



PERU: S. Gavan, Lechler (S-PA) ; Tatanera, Lechler (S-PA) ; Lachapola, without coll. 

 (BM). 



7. Calypogeia venezuelana Fulford, sp. nov. 



Caules foliosi 1-3 cm longi, fulvi; folia plana, subrectangularia, margine e 

 cellulis parvioribus constato; foliorum cellulae 25-39 X 25 ja, trigonis magnis pari- 

 etibus convexis, cuticula verrucosa. Amphigastria orbicularia indivisa vel raro retusa. 

 Inflorescentiae non visae. 



Plants of small to medium size, prostrate, in yellow-brown mats or scattered 

 among other bryophytes; stems to 3 cm long, with leaves, to 1.5 mm or more broad, 

 occasionally branched; branches short, leafy or rarely flagelliform, ventral-inter- 

 calary from the axils of the underleaves. Rhizoids frequent, long, the tips enlarged 

 or branched, in brownish tufts from the lower parts of underleaves. Line of leaf 

 insertion oblique, slightly curved above. Leaves subimbricate, bordered by smaller 

 cells, widely spreading, plane or becoming decurved in the outer part, subrectangular 

 in outline, 0.6-0.9 X 0.45-0.6 mm, the dorsal base curved, the ventral base shortly 

 decurrent, the apex broad-rounded, the margin often weakly crenulate, coarsely 

 papillose, and thickened above each cell lumen; cells of the border 20-26 X 15-20 /x, 

 the walls thickened; cells of the upper part of the leaf mostly 26-39 X 25 /x, the 

 walls thin, the trigones large, conspicuous, with bulging sides, the cuticle coarsely 

 warty. Underleaves orbicular, twice as broad as the stem, sometimes narrowed to 

 the blunt, rounded apex, the margin crenulate, the cells large, elongate, thick-walled, 

 the trigones large. Male and female inflorescences and sporophyte not seen. 



PI. 68. Fig. 7, a-d. 



Habitat: On rocks and moist cliff faces. 



VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Serrania Paru, Cowan & Wurdack 31427 (type NY) Bolivar: 

 Cerro Venamo, escarpment, 1500 m, Steyermark & Dunsterville 92595 p.p. (VEN) ; near Salto de 

 Pacairao, 1220 m, Steyermark 60519a (F). 



8. Calypogeia parallelogramma (Spruce) Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 296. 1907. 



Kantia parallelogramma Spruce, Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 15: 413. 1885. 

 Kantia trichomanis var. /3 granulosa Wright, in Hb. 



Plants of medium to large size, dark green becoming dark brown to blackish, in 

 depressed mats; stems to 5 cm long, with leaves, to 2 mm wide, irregularly pinnate; 

 branches solitary, ventral-intercalary in the axils of the underleaves, leafy or rarely 

 flagelliform or short sexual. Rhizoids occasional, tinged with brown, long, the tips 

 branched, in tufts from small cells of the lower part of the underleaf. Line of 

 leaf insertion oblique. Leaves approximate to subimbricate, more or less bordered 

 by a row of smaller cells, widely spreading, plane, subrectangular, 0.9 X 0.48 mm, 

 the apex broad-rounded or rarely refuse, the dorsal base curved, the ventral base 



