Octoblepharum erectifolium Mitten ex R. S. Williams 1913

Octoblepharum erectifolium Mitten, sp. nov
Flowers and fruit unknown: plants in pale-green or brownish-white tufts, with stems mostly less than 2 cm. high: stem-leaves crowded, fragile, mostly broken in the older plants, slightly curved to almost straight and erect, up to 2 cm. long or more, from a small, oblong base about 1.5 mm. long, more or less abruptly narrowed to a long-ligulate point with a rounded or broadly acute, slightly apiculate and serrulate or entire apex, in cross-section near the middle showing about 4 layers of cells above and 3 layers below the triangular chlorocysts, near the base 2 layers above and 2 below the often quadrate chlorocysts; hyaline lamina of the leafblade of one thickness of cells with walls thin and more or less pitted, the marginal cells of the blade elongate-rhomboidal, within larger and longer, 20-30 /x wide by 100 /i long or more, the leaf-margin above somewhat crenate-serrate.
Type collected in Trinidad, Cruger (herb. Mitten, In herb. N. YjBot. Gard.). Distribution: Jamaica; also in Trinidad.