17 ; 
ventrali abrupte subdecurrentibus, auricula parva obovata vel sub- 
clavata pendulo-deflexa a caule distante tecta, lobulo dentiforme 
interjecto minutissimo e serie singula cellularum minutarum ex- 
structo, areolis parvis rotundis vel ovalibus maxime steliiformibus ; 
amphigastriis maximis reniformi-ovatis (sesqui vel duplo latioribus 
quam longis) emarginato-bilobis, sinu acuto, lobis latissime ovatis 
subacuminato-apiculatis, margine plana integerrima, medio umbon- 
nato ; spicula masculina rotundo- vel oblongo-ovata ; fructu... . 
Hab. Viti or Fiji Islands, Dr. B. Seemann, No. 834, partly (1860) 
in Herb. Sulliv. 
A rather large species, the stems 2-3 inches long by about 1 inch 
wide.—Remarkable chiefly for the auricle being suspended below 
the leaf and covered by the amphigastria, which are usually as largo 
as the leaves and often twice as broad as long, with the lobes acu- 
minate. 
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15. Fimbriaria violacea, Aust.—Differt a F. Bolanderi, Aust.: statura 
Majore, fronde densissime areolata haud marginata subtus latius 
costata densius radiculosa, squamis brevioribus vix solutis, pedun- 
culo crassiori breviori? basi submultum et toto longitudine parce 
piloso nigro-purpureo, receptaculo femineo majore subconoideo 
siccato haud umbonato plerumque tricarpo subtus longissime bar- 
bato et piloso, (pileis tubulosis intus [ut in radiculis | muriculatis), 
perianthiis subdependentibus subpyriformi-ovatis 12-16-fidis vio- 
laceis.;.a F. echenella, Gottsche, et F’. elegans, Spreng. : fronde angu- 
stiore rigidiore concavo-canaliculata siccitate arcte involuta, recep- 
taculo femineo haud tuberculoso, ete. 
Hab. California, Bolander (1866). 
About the size of F. tenella, Nees, and with much the same shap- 
ed fertile receptacle.—The specimens are immature and the peduncle 
(about 6 lines high) is probably not fully developed. The frond is 
1-1} lines wide by usually less than 1 inch in length, rigid, strong- ? 
ly concave-caniculate, when dry involute (as in Grimaldia barbifrons), 
densely areolated and pale green above, convex-thickened densely 
radiculose imperfectly squamulose distantly subpunctate and dark 
purple beneath. The floriferous innovations are very small, often 
Scarcelyexceeding a line in length, and much less squamulose than 
in F. Bolanderi ; the antheriferous ones aré usually smaller than 
the others. The fertile receptacle is areolated above like the frond, 
hearly smooth, and usually 3-fruited. The perianths are of afine — 
violetcolor, and not subhorizontally spreading as in L’. Bolanderi. u 
In F. elegans there are no scales underneath the much less rigid : 
roader and exareolated frond ; the pale peduncle often arises from | 
the apex of a continuation of the main frond; the lateral innovations — 
are larger and more fully developed (1-24 lines broad) , ete. _ How- 
ever the chief characteristic of both this species, and I. echinella, a. 
ey prominently tuberculated upper surface of the fertile re- 
ceptacle. 
16. Notothylas, SuiZiv. Muse. Allegh. (1845).—(Carpolipum, Nees. 
Syn. Hep. p. 591—Carpobolus, Sohweinitz in Journ. Acad. Philadelph. 
AL p. 367. £. 2.)—The elaters of this genus (funiculi, Nees, 1. c.) are 
t= fo 
; ff Bs 
