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Lophocolea hridelii, Xees. — Rather small, pale, delicate. 

 Leaves nearly piano-distichous, obliquely quadrate from a 

 broad base, 1-1.3 mm. long, apex truncato-rotund to re- 

 luse, dorsal base decurrent, ventral margin slightly ex- 

 23anded. Underleaves free, rectangular, apex broadly trun- 

 cate or shortly bilobed, sinus very broad and shallow, 

 margin plain or with a minute tooth. 



Mt. Wellington. 



Eastern Australia. 



Lophocolea suheiiKirginata, 7V/?//.-— Short with many 

 short branches. Leaves crowded, upper ones erect, lower 

 ones plane, ovate, L3 mm., apex rotund, retuse or shortly 

 bidentatei. Underleaves little broader than the stem, bifid, 

 lobes acute, margin unidentate or plain. Floral leaves 

 dentate. Perianth strongh^ 3 angled, not winged. 



Leaves more symmetric than in L. hridchi and a 

 different underleaf. 



Mt. Wellington. 



Lophocolea ohlfieldiana , St. — Medium size, pale dull 

 green. Leaves when moist regularly decurved, when dry 

 crumpled, ovate to nearly rotund from a very broad base, 

 L5 mm., apex rotund or slightly emarginate, insertion of 

 both margins abrupt, underleaves twice as broad as the 

 stem, broadly connate on one side, h bilobed. lobes broad 

 with acute apex, usually one margin unidentate. 



Mt. Wellington. 



L'jpJiocolea inacrostipula, St. — Robust, pale yeilow 

 freely branched, forming dense mats. Leaves erect ob- 

 liquely ovate-rotund from a very broad base, apex biden- 

 tate or retuse, or on some shoots quite entire, L2-2 mm. 

 long. Underleaves broader than the stem, oblong-rectan- 

 gular, upper ones very large, sinus obtuse, l-3rd bifid, lobes 

 lanceolate, margin entire or with one small tooth. 



Mt. Wellington. 



Lophocolea aii^trigena, Tayl. — Shoots mostly 3 cm. 

 long. Leaves closely imbricate, rotund or rather broader 

 than long, 1.8 mm. diameter, undulate-concave, insertion 

 narrow, cells 27 ^.., trigones small, concave ; underleaves 

 similar to the leaves, | as large, entire, sinuately inserted 

 free, in the upper portion of the shoot more oblong, and 

 apex emarginate. Perianth broadly cylindric, strongly 

 triquetrous, angles not winged or very minutely so, mouth 

 broad. 



Length of shoot and size of leaf variable. 



Adamson Peak. 



Fuegia. Falkland Is. 



