242 Transactions. — Botany 



10. G. albistipula, sp. nov. 



Plant small, bright light-green ; stems sub-erect, simple, 

 1-1 \ inches long, obovate-oblong, truncate at tip, 4 lines wide 

 in the broadest part, leaved to base ; stem stout, succulent, 

 white, with fine filiform rich purple rootlets at base. Leaves 

 thin, closely imbricate, spreading, falcate, ovate-oblong, obtuse 

 (sometimes with a tooth as a mucro), each with 3-4 narrow 

 plaits or creases extending diagonally to margin, the margins of 

 the upper half coarsely serrulate, the lower half of basal margin 

 nearly entire, the upper half of the same laciniate ; laciniae 

 increasing in size towards the stem, and there shortly decur- 

 rent ; dorsal lobe much broader at base than the ventral, and 

 largely rounded and overlapping the stem, the margin very 

 slightly serrulate and decurved, the apical portion truncate ; 

 cells sub-orbicular, rather small. Stipules white, rather large, 

 sub-quadrate, narrowest at base, bi-lobed to middle, sinus 

 large, with two minute laciniae ; lobes broad at top, coarsely 

 laciniate, not ciliate ; laciniae obtuse, celled to apices ; cells of 

 various shapes and sizes, mostly orbicular-oblong, large, clear, 

 and double-walled. Fruit- stalk 15 lines long, stout. Capsule 

 narrow, linear-oblong, purple ; valves spreading, 2 lines long, 

 linear-lanceolate, very obtuse, not meeting at base, but with a 

 small hemispherical pilose boss in the centre, finely and closely 

 striate longitudinally and transversely with minute dark-brown 

 striae. Spores orbicular, numerous ; no spiral elaters detected. 



Hab. On rotten logs and on the earth, forming compact 

 patches in shaded spots ; wet woods, near Norsewood, County of 

 Waipawa, 1885 : W.C. 



Obs. A species nearly allied to G. macroamphigastra, mihi 

 (supra), but differing in its being unbranched, with much less 

 concave leaves, that are also largely plaited, and in its very 

 much smaller and differently-formed white stipules. 



■'''^ Stipules 0. 



11. G. simplex, sp. nov. 



Plant small, sub-gregarious, simple and sparingly branched, 

 under 1 inch long, 3 lines broad, sub-obovate-linear, very light- 

 green, of a soft texture. Leaves below distant, narrow-oblong, 

 obtuse, and nearly quite entire ; the upper not crowded, linear- 

 ovate, slightly and finely serrulate, more so at tips ; dorsal 

 small, scarcely half as long as the ventral, sub-elongate-quadrate, 

 upper edge slightly curved, truncate at apices, margins entire ; 

 cells small, sub-orbicular ; rootlets numerous, long, purple ; 

 stipules 0. 



Hub. On the ground, among other Eepatica and mosses ; 

 banks of the River Mangatawhaiiti, between Norsewood and 

 Danneverke, County of Waipawa; 1885 : W.C. 



