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Melicope simplex, thickets south of Dannevirke, County of 

 Waipawa ; 1888 : W. C. 



Obs. An interestmg and rather curious little species, of 

 pleasing appearance from the large number of its minute and 

 erect flowers peering above its green leaves ; its perianths also 

 assume a pale, almost white, colour, making them still more 

 conspicuous with their exserted dark-coloured capsules. It is 

 pretty closely allied to L. rufescens, Lind., and also to a British 

 species — L. vdnutissima, Dumort. 



3. L. epiphylla, sp. nov. 



Plant very small, sub Jin. high, tufted ; main stems creep- 

 ing; branches sub-erect, simple and forked. Leaves close 

 and imbricate, somewhat falcate, oval, dimidiate ; tips obtuse, 

 and sub-acute ; anterior base produced, margins slightly 

 uneven ; lobule broadly ovate, tumid. Perichgetial leaves 

 obovate ; tips sub-apiculate, obtuse. Cells small, clear, 

 various— orbicular to narrow oblong, walls thick with minute 

 cellules, smaller and more regular at margins. Stipule oval, 

 bifid. Perianth sessile, obovate-oblong, plicate, campanulate 

 when expanded, mouth truncate ; tips of lobes rounded, api- 

 culate. Fruit-stalk shortly exserted, curved, transversely 

 ringed ; capsule sub-orbicular ; valves broadly ovate, split 

 half-way down, pellucid, cellular. 



Hah. Epiphytical on Hi/menophyllum (sps.), woods, Danne- 

 virke, County of Waipawa ; 1888 : W. C. 



Genus 23. PniUania, Eaddi. 

 § '2. Lobule vertically elongate, &c. 



1. F. tongariroense, sp. nov. 



Plant prostrate, slender, graceful, l-|in.-2in. long, branched, 

 sub-tri-pinnate ; branches alternate, distant, 3-4 lines long ; 

 branchlets short, 1 line long. Leaves concave, distant, and 

 large on main stems, less so on branches, close on branchlets 

 but not imbricate, sub-oblate-orbicular or broadly elliptic, 

 dimidiate with anterior margin incurved at tip. apiculate ; pale- 

 green with a very narrow purple margin (and so scales) ; 

 lobule large, purplish-brown, erect, a little inclined from stem, 

 elliptic-clavate, broadest at apex, the tip produced beyond 

 margin of leaf. Scale hippocrepiform, with many fine wavy 

 ciliae proceeding from the centre ; sinus large, spreading, ex- 

 tending half through in depth. 



Hai. Among other HepaticcB and mosses on the gi-ound, 

 Mount Tongariro, County of East Taupo ; 1887 : Mr. H. 

 Hill. 



Obs. A species allied toi^. minntissima, Col. ("Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst.," vol. xix., p. 298). The little dark lobule has a curious 



