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specimens in Hooker's herbarium show numerous capsules, lowly tuber- 
colate only, as in the present plant 
Stercodon (Sympkyodon) pennatulus Mitt. (ined. ?), f ‘ Moulmein 
Parish/' in Herb. Kew., is similar in the complanate habit, but a very 
small plant, with very regularly subdistichous foliation, and leaves 
distinctly spathulate, finely crenulate only or erose at summit. 
27. Symphyodon scabrisetlis Dixon sp. nov. (Plate I, fig. 3.) 
Speciei prmcedenti habitu similis, sed multo minor, gracilius, minus 
exacte complanatus, ramis longioribus, ramulis paullo attenuatis ; folus 
oblongis, minus curvatis, supra nix an gust at is, obtusis vel subacuiis , tune- 
tins dcnticulatis nervis binis brevissimis. Flores <$ numerosi in axillis 
foliorum proecipue superiorum. Folia perichcetialia anguste acuminata, 
parum dcnticulata. Seta vix 3 cm. alta, pars infima quarta tantum lcevis, 
supra magis magisque scabra, parte dimidia superiore papillis prcealtis 
ct/lindricis densissime echinata. Theca elliptica> minor, ore angustiore, 
per totam fere superficicm verucis valde incequalibus plerumque humilibus 
densiuscule irregulariter . obtecta. Peristomium ei proccedentis 6imile, 
tenerius, dentibus intus altius trabeculatis. Dioicus. Cetera ignota, 
Hab. On tree trunk, Lalik Valley, alt. 2,700 ft., Abor District, 22nd 
December 1911 ; leg. Burkill (n. 37335), 
Closely allied to the last species, and in the vegetative characters 
only distinguished by slight differences which in a sterile state might 
have been judged to be varietal merely ; they are however in all probabil- 
ity constant, especially the finer denticulation of the leaves in the present 
species, which is shown to be of no trivial importance by the absolute 
difference shown by the perichoetial bracts in the two species. The fruit- 
ing characters also are widely different. 
The seta in this genus is usually scabrous in the upper pare, especially 
near the capsule, but rarely if ever approaching the degree of asperity of 
the present plant. 
I find when too late for alteration that a S. scabrisetus exists as a 
MS. name in Hampe's herbarium. It is however certainly identical with 
erraticus (Mitt.), so that no confusion is likely to occur. 
22. Distieliophyllum Dz. & mb 
(28). Disticliopliyllum Griffithii Par. 
Syn. Mniadelphus GrifjiiJiii Mitt. Muse. Ind. or. p. 14*5. 
Epiphyllous, growing obliquely forward and downwards on leaves 
overhanging a stream— a tributary of the Egar — alt. 3,000 ft., o. fr. 
(n. 36106). 
