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enclosed, globular, dark-green. Stipule oblong, recurved, apex 

 retuse, margin entire, much waved, especially at the base. 



Hah. On branches of trees, slightly adhering to their 

 bark, and to foliaceous lichens, and to its own uuder-branches ; 

 Seventy-mile Bush, County of Waipawa ; 1882-86 : W.C. 

 Forest near Palmerston, County of Manawatu; 1886: M): A. 

 Hamilton. 



Obs. This species much resembles M. stangeri, Gottsche, 

 (and its vars.), but it differs from them in the shape of its leaves, 

 which are much more reniform or transversely elliptic, in its 

 largely ciliated involucral leaves, in its oblong and retuse stipules 

 that are not gibbous, and in its orbicular cells, as well as in its 

 size and colour. It is a fine and pretty plant, and though its 

 stems and branches are not so large and long as those of 

 M. stangeri, they are quite as wide as the widest of them. 



2. M. amcena, sp. nov. 



Plant pendulous ; stems 5-6 inches long, 2| lines wide, 

 pinnate, mostly simple, few-branched and forked at tips; bases 

 bare, black, wiry, sub-rigid ; colour a lively light-green. Leaves 

 closely regularly and largely imbricated, but not overlapping 

 their opposite bases on stem, broadly elliptic, margins entire, 

 the lateral sparingly and finely toothed towards stem, apex 

 decurved ; lobule very slightly afiixed to leaf, oblong, broader at 

 apex, ciliate ; cilias irregular, jointed ; cells small, orbicular, 

 with minute interstitial cellules (much as in the preceding 

 species M. latifolia, but smaller). Stipules small, rather dis- 

 tant, sub-deltoid-cordate, with rounded tip, and basal angles 

 produced and clasping, tip recurved ; narrowly margined, mar- 

 ginal cells minute, uniform ; margins entire, but irregular at 

 base ; cells remarkably minute, and of various sizes and shapes, 

 mostly oblong. 



Hab. On trunks of trees, hilly forests, Glenross, County of 

 Hawke's Bay ; 1886 : Mr. D. P. Balfour. 



Obs. A species near to the preceding ; and also to M. 

 stangeri, and its vars. ; but differing in its usual long simple 

 form, in appearance and in colour, in the size of its cells, and 

 particularly in the shape and structure of its small margined 

 stipules, and in its different lobule. 



Genus 23. FruUania, Raddi. 

 1. F. novcc-zealandue, sp. nov. 



Stems slender, 1 inch long, Aviry, flcxuous, dark-coloured, 

 pinnate, rarely bipinnate ; branchlcts few, alternate, irregular 

 in length. Leaves pale-green, very slightly imbricate, broadly 

 ovate, sub-acute and obtuse, margins irregular, ventral base 

 patent not inflexcd, those on the main stem larger than on 



