CoLENSO. — On new Cryptogamic Plants. 287 



although a very much smaller plant. Notwithstanding my 

 having received some scores of specimens, I have not found any 

 bearing fruit ; therefore it is only provisionally placed under 

 this genus, at the same time I have no doubt of it belonging 

 to it. 



Genus 13. Lepidozia, Nees. 



1. L. latiloha, sp. nov. 



Plant small, prostrate, recurved, spreading in patches ; 

 colour dusky-olive-green. Main stems 1-1-| inches long, bipin- 

 nate, leafy to base; branchlets numerous, alternate, -^-f 

 inch long, patent, irregular, curved, drooping ; tips acuminate 

 and flagellate. Leaves numerous, very close, imbricate, con- 

 cave, glossy, quadrate or sub-palmate-quadrate, 4-lobed ; lobes 

 large, half the length of leaf, very broad at base, (each con- 

 taining 6 lines of lateral cells,) acuminate, tips acute, margins 

 uneven, sinus very broad ; cells distinct, minute and orbi- 

 cular at margins and tips, larger and oblong in the centre and 

 at base. Stipules same as leaves, only the lobes a little narrower 

 and more acuminate, patent, tips incurved. 



Hah. On ground or rotten wood, dark shaded woods near 

 Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1886 : W.C. 



Obs. A species having some affinity with L. cnpressina, 

 Lind,, a West Indian, Chilian, and Tasmanian plant. 



Genus 14. Mastigobryum, Nees. 

 Section 1. Stipules quite free from the leaves. 

 * Leaves quite entire. 

 1. M. obtusatum, sp. nov. 



Plant small, procumbent, weak, spreading, 1-1-|- inches long, 

 ■| line wide, dichotomous ; branches uniform in width through- 

 out ; light-green. Leaves alternate, broadly elliptic, the dorsal 

 slightly overlapping at the middle, the lowest smaller and dis- 

 tant, margins entire and somewhat irregular, the dorsal margin 

 arched, the ventral nearly straight ; apices of upper leaves 

 entire, rounded, and very obtuse, of the lower leaves various, 

 truncate, and 1-2-3 obsoletely dentate ; cells orbicular, exces- 

 sively minute, sub-opaque, contiguous in regular parallel lines, 

 with a band of 3 longitudinal rows of larger and clearer cells 

 near the ventral margin. Stipules minute, wider than stem, 

 quadrate, largely 4-fid ; laciniae long, spreading, acute ; cells 

 oblong-quadrate, very clear, brown. Flagellse few, long. 



Hab. Woods near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1886 : 

 W.C. 



Obs. A species very near to M. convexum, Lind. The band 

 of 3 rows of large cells closely resembles a similar band in the 

 leaves of M. monilinerve, Nees. 



