26 PLANTS FROM NEW CALEDONIA. 
pauci-ramosi, 5 cellulas lati, sectione transversà cellulis periphericis 10, 
interioribus 5x5. Folia secunda amplexieaulia ascendentia, lobo palmato 
late lanceolato laciniato-ciliato, lobulo rotundato levi sed carina papillis 4 
prominentibus prope lobum exornata ; cellulis majusculis anguste oblongo- 
quadratis paulum pachydermibus, trigonis nullis. Foliola nulla. 
Inflorescentia feminea ramulo postico brevi orta ; bracteæ ovales acute 
serrulatæ fere ad medium bifidæ, segmentis lanceolatis acuminatis ; 
braeteola bracteis similis. Perianthium ultra bracteas dimidio emersum 
lineare acute trigonum e cellularum elongatarum (sectione transversa 120) 
strato unilamellato compositum, ore lato setis (2-3 cellulas longis, ad basin 
2 cellulas latis) c. 50 ornato. 
Andreecia e ramis longis tenuibus orta ; bracteæ in paria fere 10 dispositæ, 
quam folia minores inflate ovales, ad 4 vel 4 bifida, segmentis acutis, parum 
dentatæ. 
Dimensions. Stems 4 to 1 inch long : diam. of stem ^1 mm.; with leaves 
‘> mm. wide; leaves, lobes with cilia ‘7 mm. long x:6 mm. wide, lobule 
"15 mm. x 15 mm. ; cells ‘075 mm. x 025 mm. ; papillae on keel (025 mm. x 
‘025 mm. ; bracts 1:5 mm. x^75 mm., segments *6 mm. ; bracteole 1°75 mm. 
X°6 mm.; perianth 3 mm.X'5 mm.; sete at mouth ‘1 mm.; perigonial 
bracts "3 mm. xX*2 mm., segments *1 mm. 
Obs. Hitherto only three species belonging to this genus were known—our 
native N. curvifulia (Hook.), N. borneensis (De Not.) from Malaya, and 
V. Wrightii (G.) from Cuba. 
The genus was named by Mitten after old John Nowell, a Lancashire 
working-man botanist; my friend the late Dr. Carrington had a great 
regard for him; his accurate knowledge of mosses and hepaties was only 
equalled by his generosity and kindly nature. 
N. Wrightii (Gottsche) from Cuba, Dominica, and Guadeloupe is un- 
doubtedly near to this species ; it is, however, a smaller plant of a purple- 
rosy colour, with leaves less ciliate, with cells smaller and more quadrate, 
and devoid of the 3 to 4 large papillæ on the keel, althongh some of the 
keels are slightly papillose ; bracts shorter and broader, less serrulate ; 
perianth smaller and broader in proportion (1:75 mm.x°5 mm.) ; mouth 
with fewer and more delicate sete. 
Hab. On rotting wood, Maxwells Hill, Perak, Malaya (Prof. W. H. Lang). 
Ignambi. On rocks by creek, 2000 ft. 1530. 
MASTIGOBRYUM MARGINATUM St., Sp. Hep. (1908) 449. 
Obs, The remarkable character of this hepatic is that the underleaves 
have a limbus of several cells deep, composed of thin-walled cells, quite 
different from the others; Stephani describes the margin of leaves as 
minutely crenulate, I should say ‘minutely denticulate-serrate on the 
upper margin, entire or almost so on the lower,” leaves tridentate, under- 
