136 TASMANIAN BRVOPHYTA, 



Fruilania roKte^loia, Mitt. — Medium, light reddish- 

 brown. Leaves obliquely ovate-rotund, 1 mm., dorsal base 

 Jittle expanded, cells 18 fx., trigones simall concave, walls 

 slightlv sinuous ; lobule close to the stem, curved, short, 

 inflated ; underleaves about four times as broad as stem, 

 lower ones obcuneato, upper ones rotund, shortly bifid, 

 margin entire or subdentate. "Perianth obovate^oblong 

 with a ventral keel, hispid rostrum large utriculate." — 

 (Stephani.) 



Specimen sterile, but determined by Franz Stephani. 



West Coast. 



New Zealand. 



Fru/Iauia ^cdinlens, Mont. — Medium but forming 

 large dark pui-plc-brown to green patches on bark or rock. 

 Leaves concave, obliquely rotund, from a narrow more or 

 less deeply cordate insertion, 1.2 mm. long, cells 16-20 ix., 

 trigones small rotund, walls sinuous; lobule rather large, 

 curved ; mouth slender, extending beyond the leaf margin ; 

 underleaves rather large, rotund to reniform, shortly bifid, 

 margins entire, deeply keeled and often recurved; bracts 

 short, broad, ovate, obtuse; margin entire, lobuls narrow- 

 oblong, ventral margin armed with about 4 lesser lobes ; 

 bracteole nearly as long as the bracts, deeply bifid, lobes 

 slender, margin armed. Perianth clavate smooth with a 

 strong ventral keel. 



J" r. moorenna , St., is a deep red form with ver^- cor- 

 date leaf bases. 

 Common. 

 Auckland Is. 



Frulhinia cranialis, Tayl. — Red and closely creeping 

 on wood. Leaves obovate, lower ones often subacute with 

 ar. incurved apex, upper ones more rotund, mostly 0.9 

 mm. long, dorsal base shortly expanded, cells about 18 ^t , 

 trigones small, walls strongly sinuous ; lobule nearly half 

 as large as the leaf, helmet-shaped, as broad as long with a 

 straight mouth placed close to and parallel to the stem ; 

 underleaves obcruneate, little broader than the stem, with 

 a shortly bifid apex. Perianth obovate, smooth, witli a 

 very broad ventral keel. 



Mt. Wellington. Adamson Peak. Ilartz Mt, etc. 



Eastern Australia. 



FruUania piiciiantha, Tayl. — Dark olive-green or 

 purplish. Leaves not closely imbricate, generally diverg- 

 ing from the stem when moist, obliquely ovate-rotund, 0.5- 



