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to be incorrect. Later, a moss sent me by Mr. Webster, under two 

 numbers, "No. 776, Buffalo Mountains, Bright, Victoria, leg. Miss 

 Miller," and " No. 777, Fern Tree Gully, Victoria," both ex herb. 

 Murdoch, clearly represented the same thing, and on comparison 

 of these with the type of T. suberectum in Hampe's herbarium 

 I found they agreed well with that plant. T. suberectum is new 

 to New Zealand; it is allied to and not unlike T. furfurosum 

 (H. f. & W.), but is a brownish, more delicate plant, with shorter 

 branches, and the leaves quite different. The stem leaves are 

 small, with very short points ; the branch leaves widely cordate- 

 ovate, concave, very shortly and widely pointed with obscure, 

 lowly papillose cells, and weak, pellucid nerve. They are not 

 curled when dry, but simply incurved, so that the branches 

 become catenulate and terete. Short-leaved forms of T. fur- 

 furosum not infrequently have the same appearance when dry, 

 but are at once recognized, under the microscope, by the triangular- 

 ovate leaves with long acuminate points. 



Thuidium orientale Mitt. MS. in sched., sp. nov. 



T. glaucino Mitt, et T. glaucinoicli Broth, afnne. Ab hoc 

 differt foliis caulinis brevioribus, minus acuminatis, siccis magis 

 appressis ; ab illo foliorum rameorum ramulinorumque papillis 

 singulis nee furcatis ; ab utroque foliis caulinis distincte prgecipue 

 siccitate biiplieatis, et costa dorso consjricue yulchre cristata. 

 Hab. Penang, Malay Peninsula, leg. C. Curtis, 1896. 



The specimen on which this interesting species is founded 

 was sent to Mitten by Kev. C. H. Binstead for determination, 

 and returned with the name " Thuidium orientale Mitt. Hb." on 

 the envelope. No specimen or notes are to be found in Mitten's 

 herbarium, and I have drawn up the diagnosis entirely from my 

 own examination. The species is unique among the Thuidia, so 

 far as I am aware, in the highly cristate back of the nerve of the 

 stem leaves ; the nerve in the branch leaves is not so, nor indeed 

 is it even prominent at the back. 



Mitten described his Leskea glaucina from Hooker's Himalayan 

 plant, 1173 b, and he cites for it other localities in India, Assam, 

 and Ceylon, adding " etiam in Java." The Javan plant is figured 

 in the Bry. Jav. as Thuidium glaucinum (Mitt.) ; but there is a 

 marked, though inconspicuous, difference between this and the 

 true T. glaucinum, detected by Brotherus, in the papillae of the 

 branch leaves, which in Mitten's species are furcate above with 

 two or more points, while in the Javan plant, to which Brotherus 

 has given the name T. glaucinoides, they are single, usually 

 pointing forward. According to my observation, the latter also 

 has more longly pointed stem leaves, which are less closely 

 appressed when dry. T. orientale has distinctly shorter points 

 to the stem leaves than T. glaucinoides, and they differ from 

 those of both species in being conspicuously biplicate, especially 

 when dry. 



Both T. glaucinum and T. glaucinoides have a wide distribution, 

 the latter having, on the whole, a more eastern range, although 



