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lar acuminate, sharp, the upper one larger ; sinus broad, with 

 several very minute teeth on lobes and anterior apical margin. 

 Cells (in young leaves) small, compact, sub-orbicular, walls 

 thick with cellules in them ; in old leaves obscure and beaded. 

 Involucre at bases and at forks of branches, small, triangular- 

 ovoid, 1 line long, brownish, glabrous, hairy at top, with a few 

 scattered hairs below ; hairs white. 



Hah. Epiphytical on trunks of tree-ferns, low wet woods 

 near Norse wood. County of Waipawa ; 1885 : W. C. 



Obs. A species very near to (?)Tylimauth/(s perpuslllns, 

 Col. ("Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xix., p. 286). 



Genus 13. Lepidozia, Nees. 



1. L. elcijans, sp. nov. 



Plant small, pale, slender, delicate, creeping, |m. long, 

 \ line wide, simple, and pinnately branched ; main stem 

 stoutish for size of plant, with straight longitudinal lines and 

 cells ; branches alternate, irregular, 3-4 lines long. Leaves 

 alternate, close but not imbricate, horizontal, oblong -qua- 

 drate, sides straight, entire, tips truncate 3-ciliate ; cilice 

 three-fourths of length of leaf, subulate, acute, straight, ex- 

 tended, 4-celled ; their sinuses rather broad and bases suban- 

 gular. Cells large, sub-quadrate, distmct, walls thick, usually 

 disposed in 6 lines with 6 cells in a line — sometimes, but 

 rarely, less. Stipules minute, 3-rayed, with a dark-coloured 

 knot or node, and fine short rootlets. 



Hah. On rotten wood, forests, Great Barrier Island, Frith 

 of Thames; 1888: Mr. C. P. Wmkelmaun. 



Obs. I. An elegant and curious little species, pretty closely 

 allied to L. ccntipcs, Tayl. (a Tasmanian plant), with which it 

 may easily be confounded at first sight, but differing from that 

 species in many characters, as in the main stem liaving dif- 

 ferently-formed and longer cells ; in the leaves having a less 

 number of cells, with no long basal cells (double size) , which 

 are so very conspicuous in L. centlpcs, and only three (not 

 four) ciliae, with their bases usually single-celled : and in the 

 stipules being 3- (not 4-) rayed. 



II. In the very full and clear description of Tj. centipes 

 given by Lindenberg and Gottsche (" Species Hepaticarum," 

 pp. 29, 30), they say : " Folia .... quadrifida fere ad 

 medium; laciniae sub-rect£e, quaternis cellulis, singula serie dis- 



positis, binisque fultis constant Celhike foliorum 



basales reliquis fere duplo longiores unde singularem adspec- 

 tum, cum aqua non cito penetrentur, prsebent." Which their 

 accompanying drawing and dissections also clearly show. 



2. L. leiLcocarpa, sp. nov. 



Plant very small, densely tufted, main stem creeping, iin.- 



