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round the stem, obloug-ltinceolate, acute, incurving at the 

 apex, shghtly concave ; margins entire, plain ; nerve excur- 

 rent ; middle ones shorter than the upper, otherwise similar. 

 Innovation leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; nerve excur- 

 reut. Areola : Upper trapezoid, quadrate below, erect when 

 dry. Perichcetial leaves small, subulate-acute ; nerve excur- 

 rent ; acrocarpous. Fruitstalk slender, 1 in. long, slightly 

 curved at the apex, pyriform, ventricose, subrotund at the 

 base. Peristome double ; outer teeth 16, free to the base ; 

 inner, a membrane divided into 16 processes, nearly free to 

 the base, alternate with the outer. Operculum conic. Galy- 

 2Jtra not found. 



Hab. Wet banks, Waikari; April, 1882. Collected by R. B. 



24. B. macrocarpttm, sp. nov. Plate XLI., fig. 36. 



Plants growing in dense patches 1 in.-l;^ in. high, bright- 

 green above, brown below. Stem Jin., gemmiform ; innovations 

 fertile, Jin.— |in.,fastigiate. Leaves erecto-patent, closely im- 

 bricating all round, small, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly 

 concave ; margins entire, plain ; nerve excurrent, aristate. 

 hmovation leaves long, acicular. Areola : Upper trapezoid, 

 quadrate towards the base. PerichcBtial leaves shorter than 

 upper ones, otherwise similar; acrocarpous. Fruitstalk slightly 

 flexuous, 1^ in. long, scarcely curved at the apex. Capsule 

 very large, horizontal or pendulous, clavato-pyriform, tapering 

 from the middle into the fruitstalk. Peristome double ; outer 

 teeth 16, free to the base ; inner, a membrane divided to the 

 middle into 16 processes, keeled, perforated, alternate with the 

 outer. Opercuhim conic. Galyptra not found. 



Hah. Damp banks, near Oamaru ; November, 1897. Col- 

 lected by R. B. 



25. B. hapukaense, sp. nov. Plate XLI., fig. 37. 



Plants monoecious, growing in small dense patches J in.- 

 |- in. high. S^em ^ in., naked below, gemmiform ; innovations 

 barren, y^in., fastigiate. Leaves erect, olosely adpressed, im- 

 bricating, small, deltoid-obtuse, concave ; margins entire, 

 plain ; nerve disappearing near the apex ; middle ones sub- 

 oval, hmovation leaves oval. Areola : Upper trapezoid, 

 lower quadrate ; unaltered when dry. Perichcetial leaves 

 smaller than the upper, lanceolate-obtuse; acrocarpous. jPnai- 

 stoZA; flexuous, fin. long, curved at the apex. Caj;sMZe large, 

 broadly pyriform, ventricose, shghtly rounded at the base. 

 Peristome double ; outer teeth 16 ; inner, a membrane divided 

 to the middle into 16 processes, alternate with the outer. 

 Operculum conic, acute. Galyptra not found. 



Hah. Wet banks, Eiver Ha^poua, tributary of the River 

 Hapuka, near Kaikoura ; January, 1898. Collected by R. B, 



