BY L. ROD WAY. 1 BS- 



as the stem, l-3rd.-| bifid, margins entire; bracts large, 

 ovate, subacute, entire ; lobule lanceolate, acute, bearing, 

 1-2 laciniae; bracteole deeply bifid, often laciniate. 

 Perianth, nearly flat, smooth without a ventral keeL 



Very common. 



New Zealand. 



FruUania 'proho^cifera, ^a?//.- -Robust, pale green,, 

 often tinged with light brown. Leaves concave, 1.3 mm. 

 long, 1.5-2 mm. broad; cells 16-20 ^., trigones small, con- 

 cave, walls straight; lobule large, strongly curved, base 

 swollen, apex acute ; underleaves three times as broad as 

 stem, rotund, apex shortly bifid, margin with a few 

 small serrations or entire. Bracts large, ovate or sub- 

 acute; margin entire; lobule large, lanceolate, acute, the 

 ventral margin araied with dentate laciniae; bracteole as 

 long as and joined to the bracts, deeply bifid, lobes very 

 acute, margins laciniate-dentate. Perianth immersed, 

 smooth, convex dorsally, concave ventrally, with a shai-p 

 keel, margins acute. Taylor's description is rather vague, 

 and in a note he alludes to the perianth being longitu- 

 dinally plaited. His type was gathered in Tasmania, and 

 the form here described, which is very common, is the 

 only Tasmanian sjDecies which can be referred to it. Fr. 

 cinnainomea, C. ct P., is a form, of this with tinted leaves 

 and entire underleaves. Fr. kirkii, St., is a form with 

 green leaves and slightly larger lobule and underleaf. 



Very common. 



Eastern Australia. 



F ruUania monocera, Tayl. — Medium, pale green, 

 rarely rufescent. Leaves flat or slightly concave, the 

 margin usually slightly reflex ed obliquely ovate, obtuse, 

 dorsal base expanded, 1 mm. long ; lobule curved, base 

 swollen, apex prolonged into a slender recurved spine, 

 cells 16-18 ^., trigones concave, ' walls straight; under- 

 leaves rotund, three times as broad as stem, l-3rd bifid, 

 margin with 2-3 bold teeth ; bracts large, ovate, acute ; 

 margin dentate, lobule large, from a broad base, tapering 

 to a slender apex, margin dentate ; bracteole free bifid tO' 

 middle, acute, dentate. Perianth at first immersed and 

 covered with broad hairs, with a doi^al sulcus and broad 

 obtuse ventral keel, becoming smooth and more exserted 

 when old. In deep shade the lobule is very small and is 

 often reduced to an erect lanceolate form, as figured by 

 Mitten under Fr. sinnifera. 



Mt. Wellington. Meander, etc. 



Australia. New Zealand. 



