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distant, small, scarcely wider than the stem, the lamina usually 2 rows of cells 

 high, the middle sinus lunulate, the segments short. Plants dioicous. Male inflores- 

 cence short, catkin-like, the bracts small, concave. Female inflorescence with 2 or 

 3 series of scale-like bracts and bracteoles. Perigynium 2-3 mm long, bearing 

 numerous rhizoids. Spores yellow. 



PI. 74. Fig. 25, a-e. 

 Habitat: In loose or dense mats on soil, banks and rocks in wooded areas. 



CUBA: Pinar del Rio: Sierra de Cobre, E. G. Britton 7299 (NY, Y) ; Santa Clara, Trinidad 

 Mountain, Aquaeata, E. G. Britton 5416 (NY, Y) ; Retiro, Wright (Y) ; mountain of Raugel, 

 Wright (Y); Isle of Pines: near Jucaro, Britton, Britton & Wilson 14643 (NY, Y). 



JAMAICA: Vinegar Hill, Evans (Y). 



PUERTO RICO: Fajardo, Heller & Heller 997a (NY, Y) ; La Juanita near Las Marias, 

 E. G. Britton 3981 (NY, Y) ; Monte Cerrote near Adjuntas, 900-1050 m, Britton & Brown 5469 

 (Y) ; near Mayaguez, E. G. Britton & D. Marble 531 (NY, Y), Luquillo Mountains: El Yunque, 

 Evans 114 (NY, Y) ; Pico del Oeste, Howard 1 p.p. (Hb Fulford). 



HAITI: Petet Boryne to Mt. Casse, 1700 ft, Nash 499 (NY, Y). 



DOMINICA: Roseau Lake, 2500 ft, Elliott 1210 (BM) ; St. Aroment, Elliott 1256 (BM) ; 

 Soufriere Hills, 2000-3000 ft, Elliott 1820 (BM) ; Morne Caulisbon, 3700 ft, Elliott 1887, 1890 

 (BM). 



MEXICO: Huatusco, Liebmann 375 p.p. (lectotype C) ; Chiapas: Mt. Las Casas, Sharp 

 3206 p.p. (TENN). 



GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz: n of Coban, Sharp 2972 (TENN). Baja Verapaz: 4100 ft, 

 Sharp 5178 p.p., 5242 (TENN). Izabal, Jones & Facey 3351 (NY). 



COLOMBIA: Andes Bogota, Weir (NY); Bogota, Weir (NY). Antioquia: Yarumal, 2300 

 m, Bischler 77 (COL). 



VENEZUELA: Aragua: Choroni Pass above Maracay, Fulford & Steyermark 1154 (Hb 

 Fulford); Pare Nat. H. Pittier, Rancho Grande, 1100 m, Steyermark, Lourteig & Agostini 95839 

 p.p. (VEN). Merida: s w of Canagua, 1950-2135 m, Steyermark 56431 (F) ; along Rio Onia 

 near Bolero, 545-915 m, Steyermark 46721, 56721 (F) ; silva of Volcan Guayabitos, 7400 m, 

 Vareschi 7604 (VEN) ; El Avila, between Flores and Trifon, 1700 m, Fulford & Steyermark 1037 

 p.p., 1045 (Hb Fulford); sobre Sierra, 1400 m, Vareschi (VEN). Sucre: Peninsula de Paria, 

 160 m, Steyermark 94853 p.p. (VEN). 



BRAZIL: Caldas, Regnell 53, 54 (S-PA) ; Rio de Janeiro, Ule [1889] (G-12423), si, Vie 

 104, type of K. subtropica (G-12422, BM). Sao Paulo, Schiffner 2060 p.p., 4399 p.p. (S-PA, 

 UPS, W) ; Sao Paulo, Jard. Bot., Fulford, Hatcher, Hell & Vital 646 p.p. (Hb Fulford). 



26. Calypogeia amazonica (Spruce) Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 412. 1908. 

 Kantia amazonica Spruce, Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 15: 415. 1885. 



Plants of medium to large size, yellow-green becoming pigmented with brown, 

 prostrate, in mats or among other bryophytes; stems to 5 cm long, with leaves to 

 3 mm wide, occasionally branched, the branches leafy, short, ventral-intercalary 

 from the axils of underleaves. Rhizoids abundant, colorless, long, in large tufts 

 from the bases of most underleaves. Line of leaf insertion longitudinal except at the 

 upper end. Leaves approximate to subimbricate, bordered in the lower half, large, 

 symmetric, oblong, to 1.78 X 0.72 mm, the margins parallel, the apex broad, very 

 shortly bifid or more rarely acute, the teeth mostly 1 -celled; cells of the apical 

 portion mostly longer than broad, 50-65 X 39 jx, cells of the dorsal and ventral basal 

 margins 80-100 X 26 the walls uniformly thickened, without trigones. Under- 

 leaves as broad as the stem, cuneate, bisbifid, the sinus very broad, the segments 

 rather short. Female bracts in several series, short, scale-like, bifid. Male inflores- 

 cence and sporophyte not seen. 



PI. 75. Fig. 26, a-e. 

 Habitat: On damp soil, sand, or more rarely on decaying wood or bark. 



TRINIDAD: Mt. Tucuche, E. G. Britton, Coker & Roland 1802 (NY). 



