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sub-flabellit'onu-orbicular, narrowest at base, deeply bifid 

 (half-throughj or quadrifid, the two outer lobes being smaller ; 

 sinuses large, round ; all sparingly (4-5) lacinio-ciliate, the 

 lower sides of stipule with usually one straight, horn-like 

 cilia on each ; ciliiB very long, straight, acute, peculiarly 

 nioniliform or strangulated, their alternate cells wanting or 

 reduced to a fine black thread. Cells of stipule large, oblong, 

 clear, their walls thick, larger at margins and at bases of 

 cilia?. In the axils between lobes 3-5 small patent stipellae 

 (or phyllodia), each 3-4 laciniate-branched. 



Hah. Woods, Great Barrier Island, Frith of Eiver Thames ; 

 1888 : Mr. C. P. Winlcelmann. 



8. G. epiphyta, sp. nov. 



Plant prostrate, creeping, flaccid, pale - green. Stems 

 simple, and sparingly dichotomously branched, linear, 2iu. 

 long, 3-3| lines wide, leafy throughout, adhering its whole 

 length beneath by its numerous dark-red rootlets. Leaves 

 rather distant below, close and sub-imbricate above ; ventral 

 lobe narrow oblong, sub-acute ; anterior margin serrate, with 

 an auricle at base cilio-timbriate, several plaits in the apical 

 half, the two larger ones from below tip of dorsal lobe, running 

 diagonally to a notch in each margin, the largest broad and 

 raised, its edge denticulate ; posterior margin serrate with a 

 few notches, base ciliate ; dorsal lobe semi-cordate, serrate, 

 tip broadly truncate, coarsely serrate, base ciliate ; anterior 

 basal portion much rounded and produced far beyond ventral 

 lobe, slightly overlapping on back of stem ; posterior margin 

 considerably within that of ventral. Cells large, sub-orbicular, 

 irregular, compact, thick-walled with minute cellules. Stipule 

 very large, sub-oblong-quadrate, 4-5-fid, cut half through, 

 sinuses rounded, lobes large oblong, tips truncate, margins 

 sinuate, much cihate ; cilise long, flexuous, curly, 2-celled at 

 bases and springing from marginal knobs ; a row of cilite down 

 centre of stipule from base of sinus ; cells as in leaves, but 

 coarser. Several small stipellas (phyllodia ?) of finely-curved 

 fimbria in the axils of leaves. 



Hah. On trunks of tree-ferns, growing downwards, low 

 wet forests near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1886 : 

 W. C. 



9. G. ivinkelmaiuiii, sp. nov. 



Plant large, prostrate, horizontal, flat, narrow oblong or 

 sub-oblong-lanceolate, 3in. long, 9 lines wide, tip broad, 

 tapering and leafy to base, usually simple — a few speci- 

 mens seen 1-branched about the middle, with numerous 

 long pink rootlets from the middle and base of the stem. 

 Leaves pale-green, membranous, imbricate ; ventral lobe 4 

 lines long, sub-oblong-lanceolate, tip acute, the upper portion 



