88 REPORT ON THE MOSSES COLLECTED BY MR. C. E. C. FISCHER 
55 Sematopli) llum cucullifolium Card, and Dixon, sp. nov. (Plate 
II, Fig. 6.) 
Dioieum videtur. Caespites densi, straminei, nitidi. Caulis repens, 
densissime foliosus, conferte ramosus, ramis perbrevibus erectis, circa 5 cm. 
altis, foliis apicalibus convolutis subcuspidalis. Folia ramea valde concava T 
e basi parum angustata oblongo-ovata, apice concavo-cucullato , in cuspi- 
dem subfragilem angustum canaliculatum acutum, plus minusve elongatum, 
subrecurvatum , abntpte angustata, integerrima^ folia caulina minus abrupte, 
longius achminata ; Celiuloe omnino loeves, basilares medioe aurantiacce, 
perangustce, alares seriebus 4-5 hyalince, magnoe, oblongoe, subvesiculosoe. 
Periehoetia inconspicua, bracteis erect o-patentibus, late ovatis, sensim 
anguste acuminatis , marginibus grosse dentatis. Cetera ignota. 
Hab. Shembaganur, Madura, 1911, leg., Queste (n. 20 e). 
This appears to belong to the Section Choetomitriella, and to be near 
S. lunodiocarpum (C. M.) which however has the leaves much longer 
pointed, almost piliferous. 
I have found a fertilized perichcetium, but no male flowers. 
Minute-leaved, dwarf plants frequently, indeed habitually occur epi- 
phytically on the upper surface of the leaves, arising from a small tuft 
of protonemoid filaments, but I have no evidence at present that these 
are male plants. 
54, Sematopliyllum pilotriclielloides Card, and Dixon sp. nov. 
(Plate II, Fig. 5.) 
S. extenso Card. (Beihefte zum Eot. Centralbl , Bd. xix Abt. II, p. 
134, 1905) Formosa: perafAue. Caulis secundarius pendulus, semipedalis, 
gracilis , mollis , jlexuosus , irregulariter remote subpinnatim ramosus i 
rami breves, circa 1 cm. longi, nitidi, straminei. 
Folia caulina erecta, sicca subappressa, concava, oblongo-elliptica , in 
cuspidem breve acutum sccpe recurvum raptim atienuata, enervia ; margini- 
bus infra plus minusve reflexis, supra denticulatis ; areolatio superior 
perangusta, cellulis ad infimam basin mediam aurantiacis alaribus trinis, 
magnis, hyalinis, parielibus incrassatis, porosis. Folia ramea magis 
patentia, paullo latiora, magis concava, brevius cuspidata seu apiculaia . 
Heliqua desunt. 
Hab. Unnasgiriva, Central Province, Ceylon, 1911, leg. Queste (n. 
28). Also n. 27, a more slender, greener, less branched form. 
This interesting plant has for its only near ally S. extensum Card, 
from Formosa, and forms an addition to the small number of identical 
or closely related species found in Ceylon and Formosa, without, so far 
as is at present known, appearing in intermediate regions. The Ceylon 
plant differs from the Formosan in the form of its leaves, much more 
abruptly and shortly pointed, and in the more incrassate alar cells. 
