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Endemie. 
Hab. Mont Arago. On old fronds of a filmy fern. Moist forest, 1000 ft. 
1447, 
RADULA NIGRA Pearson, sp. nov. 
Dioica (?), mediocris fusco-brunnea vel nigra laxe cæspitosa. Caulis 
rigidus ligneus dichotomus. Folia imbricata concavula oblonga, lobo 
patenti-livergente (70°), margine antico (superiore) caulem obtegente ; 
lobulus erecto-patens (30?) magnus, quam lobus 3-4-plo minor, rotundato- 
quadratus altior quam latus, canlem fere obtegens, angulo libero obtuso vel 
rotundato, inflatus, carina arcuatâ. Textura firmissima, cellulis quadratis 
4-5-6-gonis, trigonis parvis. | 
Inflorescentia feminea immatura in caule ; alioqui sterilis. 
Obs. So far as I know, no other /Æadula like it has been described from 
New Caledonia or the Far East. | 
Dimensions. Stems 1 to 14 inch long, diam. ‘2 mm.; with leaves 2:25 mm. 
wide ; leaves, lobes 1:25 mm. X *9 mm., lobule *6 mm. high x '4 mm. broad, 
'6 mm. x ‘à mm. ; cells "025 mm. 
Hab. Mont Koghi. From bark and rocks, near stream, 1000 ft. Forest. 801. 
PLEUROZIA CALEDONICA (Gottsche), St., Sp. Hep. iv. (1910) 238. 
Physiotium caledonicum Gottsche ex Jack in Hedwigia, xxv. (1886) 81, 
tab. 8. 
Obs. The segments of the leaves in Mr. Compton's specimens are longer 
and more acute; the leaves are also papillose; this is not mentioned in 
Jack's or Stephani's deseriptions. 
Endemic. 
Hab. Mont Koghi. Drooping outwards in large masses from living trunks 
in scrubby forest, 3200 ft. 741. 
FnuuLANIA (Galeiloba) BEscHERELLEI St., Sp. Hep. iv. (1910) 456. 
Dioicous. Mediam size, dark brown in colour ; corticolous. Stems pin- 
nate or bipinnate ; radiculose ; ıhizoids proceeding from base of underleaves, 
few, tufted, dark purple; branches often curved, sometimes attenuate. 
Leaves imbricate, concave, ovato-oblong to orbicular, apex rotundate, antical 
margin roundly appendiculate ; lobule cucullate, erect or slightly divergent, 
stylus minute, 5 or 6 uniseriate cells long ; cells smallish to medium, with 
irregular walls; trigones small and indistinct. Underleaves sub-rotund, 
often a little longer than broad, slightly decurrent, margin often reflex at 
the base and channelled in the middle, undulate, irregular, to one-third bifid, 
segments obtuse, connivent, sinus orbicular, margin reflexed. Androcia on 
short branches, oval ; 6 pairs of bracts, closely imbricate ; lobe oval, apex 
rotundate ; lobule smaller, oval, apex obtuse. 
Dimensions. Stems 1 to 13 inch long; diam. of stem*15 mm. ; with leaves 
