127 
the Genus Streptopogon . 
Hab. — America australis : — Colombia (Nova Granata) ; Bogota, 
Pacho, 2,200 mtr., ad rad. arb., inter Fabroniam polycarpam (A. 
Lindig)! — {Calymperes Lindigii, Hampe) ; Boqueron, Bogota (J. Weir, 
Musci Novae-Granatenses, nr. 369) ! — {S. rigidus , Mitt.). Ecuador ; 
Quito, cum Hypno scarioso, Tayl. et S. erythrodonto (Tayl.), "W ils. 
(Jameson, in Herb. Mitt.) ! ; Andes Quitenses (Spruce, Muse. Amazon 
et And., nr. 139) ! ; Tunguragua, cum S. erythrodonto (Spruce, in Herb. 
Mitt.) ! — (S. rigidus , Mitt.). Brasilia ; Rio de Janeiro, Serra do Picu. 
(S. Schenck, Dec. 1885, and Nov. 1886)! — (A. Schenckii * C. Miill.). 
Bolivia ; Tipoami a Apaloberuba (Weddell, 1878)! — (S. Calym - 
peropsis, C. Mull.). 
America centralis : Costa Rica ; Prov. Alajuela, on old trees in 
damp places in woods (Dr. H. Polakowsky, June 1875, c. fr. 
vetustis) ! — (S. calymperoides , C. Miill.). 
Africa: Madagascar; in sylva pr. Ambatondrazaka (Dr. Ruten- 
berg, Dec. 6, 1877) ! — ( S . Calymperes , C. Miill.). 
The present species was originally described by Hampe ( 5 ) 
under the name Calymperes Lindigii , from specimens collected 
by Lindig in Colombia. Hampe remarked of his plant 
‘ Statura C. Richardi sed C. disciformi C. M. proximum differt : 
foliis immarginatis et cellulis laevibus.’ Examination of the 
type in Hampe’s herbarium at the British Museum shows, 
however, that the moss does not belong to the genus Calym- 
peres, but to Streptopogon. Bescherelle has already pointed 
this out in his c Essai sur le genre Calymperes ’ (2), where we 
find the statement ‘ C. Lindigii , Hpe. in Muse. Nov. Gran., 
p. 6 . . .— Streptopogon Hampeana , Nob.’ Bescherelle renamed 
the species as above in consequence of the specific name 
Lindigii being already in use in the genus Streptopogon. In 
the present species there is frequently a group of basal cells 
(adjoining the nerve) more or less sharply marked off by their 
slightly larger size and absence of contents (see Fig. 93) 
somewhat recalling the cell-structure of the base of the leaf 
in Calymperes and Syrrhopodon. It was doubtless this feature, 
together with the presence of gemmae, that led Hampe to 
place his species in the genus Calymperes. 
Two years later than Hampe’s publication of c Calymperes 
