272 MR. F. STEPHANAS REVISION OF 



falcata, apiee valde recurvata, antice caulem parum superantia ; 

 carina leiiiter arcuata, oblique a caule patens (angulo 45°), sinu 

 profundo in folium exeurrens. Lobuli maximi, imbricati, inflati, 

 ovati, supra caulem protracti, apice obtusi vel rotundati. Cellulse 

 marginales 0*008, reliquae 0*017 mm., angulis parum incrassatee. 

 Reliqua ignota. 



This is a beautiful species and one of the stoutest, resembling 

 smaller forms of Eorella Stanyeri ; its nearest ally is Eadula 

 recurvifolia, Steph. (Hedvvigia, 1888, from Mt. Kilimandjaro), 

 which has flat subquadrate lobules. There is no similar Eadula 

 known from New Zealand or Australia, and the very large im- 

 bricate lobulus will at once distinguish it from Eadula fhyso- 

 loba and plica fa. 



are 



17. Eadula papulosa, Steph., sp. n. 



Dioica, viridis, supra muscos repent, majuscula. Caulis 4-5 cm. 

 longus, ab ipsa basi multiramosus, ramis dense regulariterque 

 pinnatis. Folia imbricata, oblique a caule patentia (angulo 70°) 

 fere rotunda, concava, apice recurvula, lobulo duplo breviore, 

 fere quadrato cauli parum incumbeute, angulo apicali obtuso, 

 carina fere stricta. Cellulse 0*017 mm., incrassatio angulorum 

 fere nulla; cellulce folii anticce et maryinales papulosce. 



This is perhaps the plant described in Hooker's ' Handbook 

 of N. Z. Flora' as Eadula complanata, to which it bears great 

 resemblance ; the dioicous flowers and the papulose cells 

 such well-marked differences, that it cannot be confounded with 

 any other New-Zealand species of Eadula. 



18. Tylima^tiius spusosus, Steph., an sp. propria? 



This is perhaps only a curious variety of the very variable 

 T.ylimanthus tenellus. While the leaves of the last are unequally 

 bilobed, the antical lobe being smaller, dentiform, the postical 

 obtuse and coarsely dentate, our plant has entire leaves with 

 G to 8 spiny teeth, consisting of a single row of 3 to 4 cells with 

 very thick walls. The general appearance and the fragility of the 

 plant is very much like that of T. tenellus. Fruiting specimens 

 will perhaps justify its separation as a proper species. 



Massalongo's Adelanthus ? brecknockiensis is probably a Tyli- 

 inanthus ; the figure given in ' Nuov. Giornale Bot. Ital.' vol. xvii. 

 tab. 27, looks ver}' much like Tylimanthus tenellus. It cannot 

 be an Adelanthus, as a fully developed, though sterile, flower of 

 this genus cannot be found without a perianth. 



