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SCLOTHEIMIA SULCATA.
Sclotheimia caule repente, ramis erectis brevibus, foliis
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis undulatis (siccitate crispís),
seta longa, capsula ovata profunde sulcata. (Iab .
CLVI.).
Hab. Ill Nepal. Hon. D. Gardner.
Cfn/./e,n epentes, ramosi, ramis numerosis, erectis, crassis, brevibus,
subsimplicibus. Folia fusco-viridia, superiora flavescentia, undique
imbricata, patentia, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, cannata,
undulata, siccitate crispa, nervo ad apicem attingente percursa.
Perichætialia reliquis similia. Seta semmnciam longa,
terminalis, flavescens. Capsula ovata, erecta, intense fusca,
profunde sulcata. O p e r c z i b m hemisphæricum,longe rostratum,
rectum, basi intus substantia pulposa columellæ portione farc-
tum. Calyptra campanulata, glabra, fusco-lutea, sulcata, basi
ad dimidiam partem longitudinis iii segmenta numerosa, apice
bidentata, fissa. Peristomium duple.K ; ext. e dentibus Ib li-
nearibus, geminatis, rufo-fuscis, transversim arcte striatis,
erectis, demum revolutis ; int. membrana reticulata, flava,
erecta, margine hic illic irregulariter fissa.
What Mr. Turner has observed of the Europaean Orthoirkha,
“ Nulli musci, quoad characteres genéricos, turn abnorimter lu-
dmit, et tarn Kgre dcfiniuntur*,” may with equal propriety be
said of their afliiiities from the tropics. Hitherto I had m vain
searched among those which bore the greatest natural aflinity
with the genus Sclotheimia of Cridel and Schwaegrichen, for a
peristome of that structure. In the present instance i have met
with it, and such as accords in every essential particular with the
figure in the Supplement to Hedwig’s Spec. Muse, l e t the
plant itself bears such a resemblance to Ortholriclmni Lmigijo-
Lium, already figured in this work (Tab. XLIV.), that I know of
scarcely any'olher character but the peristome, by which it can
be essentially distinguished.
Fig. 1, plant, nat. size. Fig. 2, capsule with the operculum
and ¿'alvptra removed. Fig. 3, mouth of ditto. Fig. 4, capsule
with the operculum. Fig. 5 and 6, leaves. Fig. 7, calyptia.
Fie. 8, upper portion of the columella removed from the operculum.
Fig. 9, operculum. Fig. 10, extremity of a leaf.—magw-
* Muse. Ilib. Spec. p. 93.
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