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DOMINICA: Lagona Flats, Elliott, (type G-12419, BM) ; same locality, Elliott 2127, 2128 

 (BM). 



29. Calypogeia lophocoleoides Stephani, Spec. Hep. 3: 409. 1908. 



Calypogeia suringarii Stephani, Spec. Hep. 6: 451. 1924. 

 Calypogeia portoricensis f. laxa Stephani, in Hb. 



Plants of medium to large size, in dense dark green or yellowish mats or 

 scattered among other bryophytes; stems stout, to 5 cm long, with leaves 2-2.5 mm 

 broad, distantly pinnate; branches occasional, long, leafy, rarely small-leaved, 

 ventral-intercalary from the axils of underleaves; stem in transverse section undif- 

 ferentiated, the cortical cells similar to the rest. Rhizoids occasional, long, the tips 

 branched, hyaline or brownish, in tufts from the bases of underleaves. Line of leaf 

 insertion slightly oblique, curved above. Leaves imbricate, bordered in the lower 

 half, truncate-ovate, 0.8-1.0 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide below, narrowed to the 

 bidentate apex, the segments triangular from a 2- to 4-celled base, ending in a 2- 

 to 4-celled point, the sinus deep, U-shaped, the ventral margin bordered by 1 or 2 

 rows of long rectangular cells, not decurrent, the dorsal margin not so distinctly 

 bordered; cells of the upper part of the leaf hexagonal, 40-55 x 30-40 jx, the walls 

 uniformly thickened, the trigones tiny, the cuticle smooth. Underleaves distant, 

 longer than broad, to 4.3 long, bisbifid, the middle sinus to one-half the length, the 

 line of insertion curved, not decurrent, the cells long, hyaline, the walls thick, 

 yellowish or brown. Male and female inflorescences and sporophyte not seen. 



PI. 76. Fig. 29, a-e. 



Habitat: On damp soil and trees in montane forests. 



DOMINICA: Morne Micotrin, Elliott 1100a p.p. (BM) ; summit, Mt. Micotrin, Elliott 1136 

 (BM); si, Elliott, Hep. Domin. Elliott, 1136 (lectotype G-1242S) ; Roseau Lake, 2700 ft, Elliott 

 1183 (BM). 



GUADELOUPE: si, I'Herminier (G-1824). 



SURINAM: Insula Saba, Suringar 119, the type of C. suringarii (G). 



No specimens of the following taxa of Calypogeia, reported for Latin America, 

 have been seen. 



Kantia amazonica var. inaequijoliata Spruce, Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 15: 



416. 1885. Flumen Uaupes. 

 Calypogeia annabanensis Stephani, Bibliot. Bot. 21(87): 223. 1916. Bolivia. 



nomen nudum. 



Calypogeia jistulata Mitten, in Thompson & Murray, Rept. on the . . . voyage 

 of the H.M.S. Challenger . . . Botany 13: 85. 1885. Juan Fernandez. 



Kantia leptoloma Spruce, Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 15: 414. 1885. Brazil. 



Kantia miquelii var. oppositifolia Spruce in Bescherelle & Spruce, Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Fr. 36: clxxxiv. 1889. Guadeloupe. 



Kantia uleana Stephani, Hedwigia 34: 54. 1895. Brazilian tropics. [The 

 packets available contained no Calypogeia.] 



cephaloziaceae (Cavers) J0rgensen, Bergens Mus. Skr. 16: 58. 1934. 



Jungermannia subtribe Cephalozieae Dumortier, Recueil Obs. Jungerman. 17. 1835. p.p. 

 Trigonantheae Spruce, On Cephalozia 88. 1882. p.p. 

 Cephalozia Spruce, on Cephalozia 5. 1882. 



Sporeling of the Cephalozia type, i.e., branched, uniseriate, filamentous, giving 

 rise to a leafy shoot or to leafy sexual branches. Leafy stems branched, the branches 

 lateral, of the Frullania type, or more frequently ventral-intercalary, leafy or short 



