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broad at base, simple, lobed, and digitate above; lobes long, 

 linear, ^5- J5 inch wide, sometimes forked aud trifid, obtuse 

 and sub-acute ; margins slightly sub-sinuate and denticulate, 

 ciliate with scattered long brown glandular flexuous flattish 

 cilia; ; the bases of fronds red-brown and hairy ; hairs long and 

 flexuous. Cells large, irregular, of various sizes and shapes, 

 mostly oblong-hexagonal, smaller, regular, and sub-quadrangular 

 at margins ; minute, obovate and lanceolate, obtuse, sub-sessile 

 lobes (or sacs?) are sometimes scattered (occasionally 2-3 

 together) on margins and disk of frond, also at apex, giving it 

 a proliferous appearance ; their cells are smaller and orbicular. 



Hal. Among other densely-growing Hepaticce, on branches 

 of living trees, woods near Norsewood, County of Waipawa; 

 October, 1886: W.C. 



Obs. This is a curious and strange-looking little plant; 

 to me, almost unique in appearance, etc. ; its fructification, 

 however, has not yet been detected, and therefore it is only 

 now placed provisionally here as a species of Zuopsis. To 

 this small endemic genus of frondose Hepatica it seems to be 

 more naturally allied than to any other; at the same time 

 there are grave differences. I may also observe that I have 

 only now met with this plant, in this one locality, though 

 pretty plentiful there. 



Genus 30. Symphyogyna, Mont, and Nees. 

 1. S. connivens, sp. nov. 



Plant terrestrial, small, simple, gregarious, stipitate, erect; 

 delicate pale-green; root (and stipe) dark pink, cylindrical, 

 succulent, slightly hairy; hairs patent; stipe | inch long, 

 flexuous, smooth, glossy, succulent; frond oblate - orbicular, 

 broader than long, 6-8 lines broad, 4-5 lines long, dichoto- 

 mous, 2-branched from top of stipe ; branches equal, broad 

 at bases, conniviug and forming a cup-like cavity at top of 

 stipe, wavy, not decurrent, on stipe; each branch 2 - 3-lobed 

 or sub-branched, and cut nearly to base; each lobe deeply 

 divided; ultimate lobes short, broad, truncate, nerved; margins 

 largely serrate ; serratures broad, long, and sharp, with 5-9 

 cells in each; cells large, sub-orbicular, their walls thick and 

 dark. Involucre very small at bases of main branches on the 

 upper surface, 2 on a frond, much and finely laciniate; lacinne 

 recurved, somewhat glossy. Calyptra (immature) shortly 

 peduncled. 



J lab. Among mosses and other small plants, base of Mount 

 Tongariro, County of East Taupo; 1887: Mr. II. Hill. 



