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particularly, C. roseoalha and C heteroclada. Both of these species 

 differ in the ? inflorescence, which is not subtended by an innova- 

 tion; G. heteroclada is moreover dioicous. Judging from Mr. 

 Cooke's collections, C intertexta is one of the commonest Lejeuneeae 

 on the Islands. 



3. Cheilolejeunea Hawaica Steph. 



Cheilolejeunea Hawaica Steph. Bull, de I'Herb. Boissier, v, 847. 

 1897. 



Plate LIII., figs. 8-14. 



Autoicous : plants yellowish-brown, creeping among mosses: stems 

 irregularly pinnately branched : leaves contiguous or subimbricated, 

 the lobe widel}^ spreading, falcate-obovate from a narrow base, arch- 

 ing to about the middle of axis, rounded at the apex, entire ; lobule 

 inflated, ovate or triangular-ovate, obliquely truncate with acute 

 apex, keel straight or slightly curved, free margin appressed to lobe 

 except toward base, where it is involute, entire : underleaves distant, 

 orbicular, not cordate, attached by a slightly curved line of inser- 

 tion, bifid one third to one half with acute or obtuse lobes and narrow 

 sinus : leaf-cells with large trigones and occasional intermediate 

 thickenings, often confluent : $ inflorescence borne on a principal 

 branch, innovating on one side with a short simple innovation ; 

 bracts unequally bifid, the lobe falcate-ovate, rounded at the apex, 

 entire, lobule linear to oblong, rounded or obtuse, entire ; bracteole 

 free, oblong, bifid about one fourth with subacute or obtuse lobes 

 and narrow sinus ; perianth obovate or cuneiform, gradually nar- 

 rowed toward the base, truncate at the apex and with a short beak, 

 somewhat compressed on sides, antical surface plane, postical surface 

 with a broad two-angled keel : ^ inflorescence intercalary or tei"- 

 minal, often on a large branch : bracts in five or six pairs. 



Stems 0.08™" in diameter, lobes of leaves 0.55 x 0.35'""\ lobules 

 0.15 x 0.1'"'", underleaves 0.2 x 0.2'"'", cells at edge of lobe 8/a in diam- 

 eter, in the middle IGyu, and at the base 27x18;/, lobe of bract 

 0.6x0.4'"'", lobule 0.35x0.17'""', bracteole 0.6x0.35'""^, perianth 

 0.85x0.6"^"^. 



Creeping among mosses. Hawaii ? (Baldwin). Oahu : Konahuanui 

 (Cooke). 



The description given above is drawn partly from the original 

 specimens, kindly sent me by Herr Stephani, partly from the pub- 

 lished description of that author and partly from specimens collected 



