CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 
BRYOLOGICAL FLORA OF SOUTHERN INDIA 
REPORT 
ON A 
COLLECTION OF MOSSES MADE BY Dr. T. L. WALKER 
IN GOORG DURING THE COLD WEATHER OF 
1897-98. 
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Last summer Dr. 1>. Pruin^ Superintendent of the Botanical 
Garden of Calcutta, had the kindness to send me a rich and very 
interesting collection of mosses made by Dr. T. JL. Walker in Coorg, 
asking me to determine them and also expressing a wish that I should 
make a list of all the species in the collection In now publishing 
it, I do so the more readily that the Bryological Flora of South India 
is still very .little known, and because Dr. Walker^s collection is, 
moreover, excellent owing to its exact statements of the places where 
the different species grow. 
Helsingfors^ January iSgg. 
WEISlACEiE. 
Anoectangium (Hedw.) Br. eur. 
Anoectangium WalUeri BrotL n. sp. 
Dioicum ; gracile, caespitosum, caespitibus densissimis, usque ad 
3 cm. altis, inferne fusco-tomentosis, superne laete viridibus ; caulis 
erectus, dense foliosus ; folia sicca incurva, superiora spiraliter 
contorta, humida erecto-patentia, carinato-concava, lanceolata, 
mucronata, marginibus inferne plus minusve revolutis, integerrimis, 
nervo basi c. 0*05 mm. lato, in mucronem brevem. acutissimum 
excedente, dorso ubique scabro, cellulis rotundato quadratis, c. 
0*007 nini., minute papillosis, basilaribus infimis ad nervum anguste 
rectangular ibus, laevibus. Caetera ignota. 
Coorg : dry faces of cliffs of gneiss near Mercara (n. 277;. 
Species A, claro Mitt, similis, sed foliis superioribus spiraliter 
contortis, nervo dorso ubique scabro cellulisque papillosis optime 
diversa. 
