secondary segments are very irregularly lacinialed, and all are bordered 

 with setaceous, horizontal, simple or ramulose ciliary processes. The ends 

 of the branches are of unequal length ; the axils are all wide and rounded, 

 and the whole frond has a ragged character. In some specimens the rami- 

 fication is excessively dense and bushy. No fruit has yet been observed. 

 The colour is either a dull red or a dull purple, darkening in the herbarium, 

 and fading through orange and yellow to a creamy white. The substance is 

 hard and rigid, and the plant does not adhere to paper in drying. 



To the genus Callihlepharis, founded on the Uliodymenia cili- 

 ata of earher authors, several exotic species have recently been 

 added, some of them, like the present, being thus referred pro- 

 visionally, because they agree in external habit, and do not mate- 

 rially differ in cellular structure. Until the fruit shall have been 

 ascertained, the exact relationship of the present plant, which is 

 common on the shores of Western Australia, cannot be deter- 

 mined. Its rigid substance, variable incision, and abundantly 

 fimbriate and ragged segments, induce us to place it in CallU 

 blepharis, where it may stand next C. jubata. 



A second species, C. conspersa, resembling C ciliata in gene- 

 ral aspect, occurs, but much more rarely, near Premantle. 



Fig. 1. Calliblepharis Preissiana, — the natural size. 2. A thin slice,- 

 magnified. 



