574 HEPATICA NOV ZELANDIA, &c: 
integerrima, receptaculo foemineo corrugato apice subglo- 
boso basi quadrifido pedunculo supra subsquamato. 
Has. New Zealand, Mr. Colenso. 
Fronds nearly two inches long, two or three times sub- 
divided dichotomously, very narrow at the base, the younger 
or top subdivisions linear-obovate, flattish when mojstened, 
the edges incurved when dry, pale green, having on the 
surface thickly set pores covered with a white elevated cuticle. 
Scales occur beneath the frond on each side of the midrib, 
parallel to which is the line of their insertion, they are semi- 
lanceolate, obtuse, fine purple except their summits which 
are destitute of colouring matter. The female receptacle has 
a conico-hemispherical summit, and divides below into four 
blunt lobes, each covering the base of a calyptra, the recep- 
tacle is every where rugged with wrinkled granular elevations. 
Each calyptra is obconical, acute, tipped with a style or its 
remains, white, opening by several longitudinal slits. "There 
is no calyx. The capsule, much smaller than the cal is 
globose and contains numerous large angulato-rotundate 
seeds, with spiral filaments scarcely twice as long as the 
diameter of the seeds. The peduncle is thicker and more 
opaque below, pellucid above, of a dusky brown, it has three 
longitudinal grooves, the anterior of which is the widest, 
deepest and most considerable. The male receptacle is an 
elevated lenticular disk, of a dusky purple colour, rough with 
the prominest cells in which the anthers are contained; 
these cells are very large and divided by whitish upright — 
membranous partitions. = 
This species has the largest frond of any yet discovered ; 
but the parts of fructification are disproportionately small. 
It differs from Fimbriaria Drummondii, Tayl. from Swan 
River, by its greater size, and more divided lobes, its s 
and more minutely corrugated female receptacles, by the 
absence of any purplish tinge in the calyptree or on the scales 
of the indusium, by the fewness of the indusial scales, by f. 
the deeper situation of the peduncle and by the less conical | f 
female receptacle. Itis remarkable that of this genus, ES 
