MK. W. MITTEN OJS" NEW SPECIES OF METZGERIA. 243 



appears much less than it really is when the sac or lobule is bent 

 back in j)lane with the frond. All these appendages were empty. 

 The substance and areolation of the fronds offer nothing different 

 from that usual in M.furcatai the costa is, however, o£ a dif- 

 ferent structure, the cells being more numerous. As to the cilia, 

 it is believed several were seen on the first fragment examined, 

 but none have since been met with. Young male inflorescence, 

 of the form usual in the genus, is on the New-Zealand spe- 

 cimen. 



Metzgeeia scobina, sp. n. ; frons dichotome divisus, supra 

 convexulus, dorso cellulis omnibus elevationibus conicis asper ; 

 marginibus ciliis binatis ad latus ventrale anguste incurvis, costa 

 cellulis majoribus f dispositis. 



Hah. Borneo : Sarawak, on Matang Mountain, Mr. Everett. 



Fragments only of this have been found on mosses from trees. 

 To the unassisted eye it is altogether like M. hainata, but on 

 inspection with the microscope, even in the dry state, the promi- 

 nent cells showing on the incurved margins at once prove to be 

 quite different, and on section all the cells are seen to be pro- 

 tuberant. 



Fig. 2. 



M. scohina. — Transverse section (enlarged), to show the pointed cells. 



Metzgeeia nittda, sp. n. ; frons dichotomus, costa e cellulis 

 I dispositis ; margine ciliis singulis binatisve paucis, cellulis 

 magnis pellucidis Isevibas iis M, furcates quadruple majoribus. 



Kah, Australia, Apollo Bay, 8ir F, von Mueller; New Zea- 

 land, Bev. W. Colenso^ on a specimen of Homalia pulchella, 



a 279. 



This appears almost exactly similar to Jf. Jkrcata^ but its 

 fronds are composed of cells so much longer and translucent 

 that they have a shining look. 



