FLORA VITIENSIS. ool 
gymnostoma. Calyptra parva, mitriformis.—A remarkable genus, in its foliage and habit, before the fertile 
prolongations are produced, exactly corresponding with Macromitrium, but in the production of special 
short-leaved shoots, on which the fruit is borne, analogous only to those species of Campylopus, like C. exas- 
peratus, which are referable to the subgenus or group Thysanomitrium. 
A. ©. cymosus (sp. noy.), Mitt. ; caulis radicans, foliis sursum curvatis appressis lanceolatis ; rami erecti, 
humiles, in cespitem congesti, foliis patenti-incurvis ligulatis obtusis, nervo in mucronem excurrente, margine 
basin versus papillis elongatis setiformibus ciliatis, cellulis superioribus rotundis obscuris inferioribus angustis 
pellucidioribus, subito in fertilibus, in foliis abbreviatis, quinquefariis imbricatis e basi erecta patenti-recurvis 
late ovatis obtusis, nervo flavo in mucronem excurrente, margine basi crenulata mutatis; folia pericheetialia 
erecta, oblonga, obtusa, inferne cellulis angustis pellucidis areolata; theca ovata, ore nigro-fuseo nitido ; 
ramus fructifer infra perichetium innovans, interdum subcymoso-divisus.—Isle of Pines, on stones on the 
main peak (Milne!). Barren branches about two lines high, the fertile prolongations from half to three- 
quarters of an inch high, simple or much diyided at the top. The apices of the perichetial leaves are about 
equal with the mouth of the capsule. This appears to differ from the C. apiculatus, Dozy et Molk. Muse. 
Archip. Ind, t. 15, in the following particulars :—the leaves of the barren shoots, or those of the base of the 
fertile ones, are much narrower, not more than half the width in proportion to their length, and from this 
cause are not imbricated, as represented in the plate at figs. 3 and 4: in the foliage of the fertile pro- 
longations and the perichetium there appears to be no difference. . brachiatus, Hook. et Wils. Icon. 
Plant. Rar. t.746 B, (Macromitrium), differs in the same respects from C. apiculatus, the leaves being 
very much narrower, and without the ciliiform papille at their base. Another specimen sent from 
Kalangan, Borneo, by Motley, differs in habit, and in the foliage of its fertile prolongations being more lax 
and curved, 
Tribus IV. Funantm.—Peristomium internum, plus minus evolutum, processibus planis vel nullis. 
Calyptra sepe inflata, rostro tubuloso, 
I. Fowanrta, Schreb. Theca inaequalis, levis vel plicata. Peristomium externum dentibus 16 obliquis 
apicibus coherentibus, internum lJaciniis teneris dentibus oppositis. 
1, #. hygrometrica, Hedw. Fund. yol.i.t. 5. f. 12; caulis brevis ; folia comalia incurvo-imbricata, concava, 
ovali-acuminata, integerrima, nervo brevissime excurrente, cellulis laxis levibus rhombeo-hexagonis areolata ; 
theca in pedunculo elongato humido curvato sicca recto horizontalis, pyriformis, ore magno obliquo ieee 
spectante, operculo convexo, peristomio completo ; flos masculus in ramo brevi, foliis eae 1s y a 
Pines, in burnt places (Milne!). The specimens of this cosmopolite species differ in no particular from the 
usual European state. 

Tribus V. Barrramien.—Theca ut plurimum globosa plicataque. Peristoma eens processus carinati, 
per carinam fissi, Folia limitibus cellularum prominuls papillosa, 
: I l ramis infra florem egredientibus 
I. Barrramra, Hedw. Musc. Frond. Caulis erectus, dichotomus ve g 
verticillatim ramosus. Folia pellucida vel obscura, All the Polynesian species yet known belong to the 
natural group which was designated by Bridel Philonotis ; these differ in habit from the group of species 
with thickened dark green foliage, and which are considered Eubartramia. In Philonotis the stems are 
usually slender, and are branched with a number of equal Reni ane pam ine Below sus soln 
cence in a verticillate manner. The leaves are small and usually near ¥ pe a Ail haere serena 
areolation composed of cells which have their upper extremities eee , an eas eae ofa 
of this peculiarity, and the margin of the leaf being recurved, their leaves appez 
really are. 
1, B, asperifolia, N 
aggregati; folia patentia ovato-lances 
percurrentibus, marginibus anguste r 
LOICA ; iles, j ites latos 
Mitt. Linn. Soe. Journ. vol. x. p. 185; dioica; caules humiles, graciles, in ceespites “i 
olata, ramea oblongo-lanceolata, omnia nervis dorso superne serratis 
ecurvis serrulatis, cellulis pellucidis, superioribus oblongis, inferioribus 
. . : b- 
; ; iali ‘ora a basi latiora subulata serrulata; theca in pedunculo elongato, su 
tne Hy cveih baw a tere opereulo depresse conico; peristomium depressum, ee 
Sate tee f leevibus ; flos masculus parvus, foliis a basi rotundata subulatis erectis.—Samoa, 
Tutuila, ae th and on rocks by watercourses, 20-100 ft. (Powell! n, 28), A small yee green oe 
ate epee on a quarter to half an inch high, with small short and rough leaves from the promi 
cies, with s 
’ th} ins and nerves. ; TEE awe : 
of the serrature of the margins and ssiusculus, ruber ; folia glauco-viridissima, erecto-patentia, 
ayes -): ceespitosa; caulis cra rul | ; 3 : ok 
2, B. obtusifolia(sp. nov.); FSP obtusa, concaya, nervo infra apicem evanido, dorso eellulis prominulis 
i -oblonga : : ee 
incurva, laxe eee arty caehe: ‘usque anguste reflexo suberenulata, apice erecta, OC. 
subdentato, margine 1 dis areolata.— Ysabel (Veitch ! in Herb. Hooker). A smal] species w ae ea 
ovali-hexagonis pellucidis ar a. half an inch high; distinct from the Javan B. laxissima, 
E ‘ sah at W athered, about : a : 
imps wate whi ae Bother pesos ns gathored in Hava by Monti 
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