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light-greeu, oval, margined, their cells sub-orbicular and of 

 various sizes. Lobule (occasional) very small, adpressed to 

 stem, galeate with a short beak, not produced beyond leaf. 

 Stipule small, sub-hippocrepiform, margins entire ; sinus 

 slightly oblique, margins uneven, base obtuse ; tips coarsely 

 produced, one larger than the other ; cells small, obscure. 

 Perianth green, ovate, deeply cariuate on one side, densely 

 muricated, shining; tip obtuse, mucronate. 



Hob. Forming lai-ge spreading overlapping patches on 

 living trees, woods, Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; 1888 : 

 W. C. 



5. F. cunning Jiamiana, sp. nov. 



Plant large, greenish, prostrate, creeping, much branched 

 especially at tips of main stems, quadripiunate ; branches 

 l^in.-2in. long. Leaves large, close, imbricate, clasping, sub- 

 vertical, patent, orbicular-reniform, margined ; margins slightly 

 uneven, light-brown. Cells small, guttulate. Lobule small, 

 narrow-galeate, adpressed to stem, not produced beyond leaf, 

 tip small, obtuse. Stipules sub-reniform-orbicular ; sinus 

 small, margined. Pericha^tial leaves — the inner erect, much 

 laciniate, flexuous, waved ; the outer very broad, sub- 

 orbicular, margins crenate-sinuate ; their cells large, oblong- 

 quadrilateral below, guttulate and distinct above. Perianth 

 oblong, trigonous, smooth, one side flat, the other largely 

 carinate ; the carina w'ide, blunt, not extending to mouth ; 

 tip truncate, apiculate. Capsule exserted, brown ; valves 

 broadly ovate, roughish within ; tips sub-acute, abounding in 

 elaters ; elaters double-spiral, dilated at ends. 



Hah. On living Podocarpus totara trees, forming large 

 thick patches ; woods, Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; 1888: 

 W. C. 



6. F. banksiana, sp. nov. 



Plant small, sub-rigid, scarcely lin. long, bipinnately 

 branched ; branches few, with two stipellae at base of each 

 branch, and one at each leaf. Leaves distant, oval, mar- 

 gins slightly uneven. Lobule close to stem, narrow galeate ; 

 tips long, recurved, partly below margin of leaf. Cells small, 

 sub-orbicular, compact, rather obscure. Stipule broadly ob- 

 long ; tip sub-acuminate ; sinus deep, spreading. 



Hab. On ultimate branchlets living trees, vv'oods, Danne- 

 virke, County of Waipawa; 1888 : TF.'C. 



7. F. solanderiana, sp. nov. 



(One branch only.) fin. long, tripinnate ; branchlets 

 numerous, alternate, with long sub-lanceolate-ovate stipellae 

 at bases of branchlets; pale-brownish. Leaves broadly oval, 

 almost rotund, sub-margined, larger on branch than on 



