1054 IIEPATICiE COLLECTED BY MR. T. WHITELEGGE IN N. S. WALES, 



Fertile bracts oblong or obcuneate, distant, about as broad as 

 the nerve, texture as in the upper stratum of cells being a con- 

 tinuation of the same, 5-6 ciliate-dentate, 2 or 3 scale-like cilia 

 are found attached above the base of the bract. 



Pistillidia about 12. Calyptra arising from the nerve and 

 apparently of the same structure, long, clavate, mouth bluntly 

 laciniate, bearing at the apex the abortive pistillidia. Capsule 

 oblong, dividing into 2 or 3 valves attached at the apex, pedicel 

 enlarged below the capsule, where a cross-section shows 60 cells 

 round and 10 in diameter, the outer cells with thicker walls and 

 rounded on the outer sides, inner cells larger. Elaters numerous, 

 reddish-brown, filiform, bispiral; spores darker brown, smooth, 

 roundish. 



Measuj'ements. — Fronds trom 1^ to 2 inches long, 4* to 5* mm. 

 wide; nerve "5 mm. wide, "2 mm. thick ; bract 2* mm. high by 

 1*25 mm. broad at the base; calyptra 6- mm. long by 1"5 mm. 

 broad; pistillidium "5 mm. long by '1 mm. broad; valves of 

 capsule 2 "5 mm. long by -5 mm. broad; spore '075 mm. diam.; 

 elater -5 mm. long x -01 mm. broad. 



Obs. — The crisped, interrupted, entire margin of the fronds 

 will readily distinguish this species from Symphyogyna rhizo, 

 bola (Nees), Schwaegr, In S. Brasiliensis (Nees) Mont, the 

 frond is less undulate and not lobate, and the pistillidia are more 

 numerous, longer, and contorted. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXIII. 



Fig. 1. Frond nat. size. 2. Young fronds x 11. 3. Cross-section of portion 

 of frond showing nerve x 24. 4. Bract x 24. 5. Calyj)tra x 11. 

 6. Pistillidium X 24. 7. Capsule opened x 11. 8. Spore x 85. 

 9. Elater x 85. 



43 Symphyogyna obovata, Tayl. Lond. Journ. of Bot. (1844), 



p. 581. 

 Mermaid's Glen, Blue Mts., Sept., 1885 (16 and 22.). 



44 Umbraculum flabellatum, (Hook.), G. 



Wet rocks, Mermaid's Glen, Blue Mts., Sept., 1885 (13) (25). 



