HEPATICJE NOVA ZELANDIA, &c. 573 
Fronds nearly two inches long, linear-obovate, divided at 
the top by a shallow sinus, the margins elevated, scariose, 
purplish; the pores are excessively minute white elevations 
of the cuticle not visible in the dry state. Beneath the edge 
of the frond is a purplish, transversely corrugated cuticle ; 
besides on each side of the inferior longitudinal axis is an 
imbricated series of lunulate purplish scales terminating in 
an oblique, lanceolate, colourless point. There are some- 
times two or three female receptacles on the surface of the 
same frond ranged over the longitudinal axis. When the 
peduncle has grown up, the female receptacle is scarcely 
wider than the top of the peduncle, it is much wrinkled and 
has beneath one, two, or three large tumid hemispherical 
loculi opening vertically on the exterior side; the opening 
is marginate from an involution of the skin of the loculus. 
When there is but a single loculus, it appears to open up- 
wards. No calyx is present. Capsule solitary, bursting 
irregularly at the summit, sessile within the loculus, and 
having around its base the remains of the calyptra. Seeds 
numerous, tawny, angulato-rotundate, having a transparent 
and cuticular coat, pitted and rugged, containing a smooth, 
Spherical nucleus. Spiral filaments with numerous very fine 
strie. The scales of the indusium are linear, acuminate, 
whitish mottled with reddish purple. Sometimes the loculi 
open and the capsules discharge their seeds while the recep- 
tacle has not been raised up from its original sessile position 
on the frond. The peduncle has, anteriorly, like its Euro- 
pean congeners, a single shallow groove running from top to 
bottom. 
The position of the peduncle, not as in the other known 
Fegatelle between the terminal lobes of the frond, but placed 
9n its disk, is characteristic and distinctive. 
Fimpriaria, Nees v. Esenbeck. | 
49. F. Australis, n. sp; fronde lineari-obovata dichotoma 
elongata apice biloba margine purpurea scariosa undulata 
