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gentia, rotundato-ovata, apice obtusa, margine ventrali rectiusculo, lobulo suboblongo, apice uniiden- 
tato, inde sensim in folium apicem versus angustato ; amphigastria orbiculata ; folia involucralia minora, 
oblonga; perianthium obovatum, inferne teretiuseulum, apice compressum, dorso depresse planum, 
ventre convexum bilabiatum.— Viti (Seemann !). 
Caulis 4-6 lineas longus, cum foliis lineam paulo angustior. Folia flavo-viridia. 
3. P. calcarata, (sp. nov.) Mitt.; rami procumbentes, ramulis brevibus irregularibus ramosi ; 
folia dense imbricata, patentia, rotundato-oblonga, obtusa, margine ventrali inflexa, lobulo oblongo, 
apice dente calcariformi terminato ; amphigastria transverse latiora, subreniformia, apice recta ; perian- 
thium oblongum, obtusum, rostratum, triplicatum.—Viti, Ovalau (Seemann !). 
Rami 1-1} uncias longi, eum foliis lineam lati. Folia olivaceo-fusea.—L. twmide habitu et statura 
simillima, nec colore diversa, sed foliis lobulo dente unico calcareformi et perianthio ventre unicarinato 
diversa. 
4. P. eulopha, Tayl. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1846, p. 391; caulis elongatus, parce ramosus ; 
folia divaricata, oblonga, apice rotundata, incurva, margine ventrali medio sinuata, lobulo oblongo 
unidentato; amphigastria transversim latiora, subreniformia, margine recurva; folia involucralia 
majora, acutiuscula, lobulis amphigastrioque orbiculato denticulis ciliata; perianthium obovatum, 
immersum, dorso planum, ventre biplicatum, carinis omnibus spinoso-denticulatis.— Viti (Seemann), 
Pacific Islands (Nightingale). 
Caulis 1-11-uncialis, cum foliis semilineam latus, Folia fusca. 
5. P. renistipula, (sp. nov.) Mitt. ; caulis elongatus, flaccidus, ramosus ; folia divergentia, ovato- 
rotunda, apice rotundata, denticulata, margine dorsali inflexo, ventrali lobulo parvo saccato ovato; 
amphigastria rotundo-reniformia; folia involueralia apice evidentius dentata, lobulo parvo acuto; 
amphigastrium magnum, ovali-rotundum ; perianthium obovatum, compressum, dorso uni- ventre 
bicarinatum, plicis denticulis spinosis ciliatis.—Viti (Seemann !). 
Caulis sub-biuncialis, vix eum foliis semilineam latus. Folia nigro-fusca. 
VIII. Lejeunia, Gottsche et Lindenb., iidem et Nees Syn. Hepat. p. 308. Caules procumbentes, 
ascendentes vel prostrati, dichotomi vel pinnatim ramosi. Folia lobulo inflexo interdum obsoleto. 
Amphigastria bifida, rarius integra, in paucis speciebus duplicata vel nulla. Fructus in ramulo 
brevissimo lateralis. Perianthium læve aut plicatum. 
Sk Phragmicomoidee, Gottsche, Lindenb. et Nees Syn. Hepat. p. 310. 
The following are non-Vitian Polynesian species belonging to this section, viz.:—1. L. eryptocarpa 
(sp. nov.) ; rami breves, parce divisi; folia patenti-divergentia, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, margine ventrali sub- 
recta, lobulo parvo rotundo-quadrato, apice rotundato; amphigastria orbieularia, foliis triplo minora; perian- 
thium foliis rameis obtectum, obovatum, dorso planum, ventre convexum, margine superne dentibus spinu- 
losis ciliatum.—Hawaii, supra Leptogium azureum repens (Menzies !), Samoa, ad Chætomitrium „frondosum 
adherens (Powell), Isle of Pines (Strange). —Rami unciam longi, cum foliis lineam lati. Folia tenera, 
olivaceo-fusca.—Species Z. transversali similis, sed minor. Perianthium absque foliis involucralibus propriis 
in axilla ramuli brevissimi laterali sessile. 2. L. squamata, Nees ab E.; Gottsche, Lindenb. et Nees 
Syn. Hepat. p. 322.— Hawaii, ad Radulam pallentem (R. Javanica?).—A pale green, much-branched species, 
of which the typical form of the Syn. Hepat. is stated to grow in India and in Hawaii. 
1. L. procumbens, (sp. nov.) Mitt.; caulis procumbens, parum ramosus ; folia dense imbricata, 
divergentia, ovali-rotundata, apice incurva, margine ventrali recto, basi lobulo parvo rotundato 
involuto; amphigastria magna, transversim latiora, subreniformia.— Viti (Seemann). 
Caulis subuncialis, eum foliis lineam latus. Folia pallide albo-viridia, cellulis parvis obscuriusculis, 
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