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Kerguelen's Land, has a perianth not at all alate, and with its mouth more shortly dentate than has been observed 

 in L. bidentata; the cauline leaves, too, are rather different in form, and have a tendency to become more or less 

 rounded at their apices, as in L. heterophylla. 



6. Lophocolea spinifera, Hook. fil. et Tayl. ; perianthio ovato triquetro angulis alatis superne dentatis 

 ore truncate labiis dentate-] aceris, foliis amphigastrioque involucralibus toto ambitu spinoso- dentatis denti- 

 bus recurvis. — Flor. Antarct. p. 155. t. 65./. 1. 



Hab. Northern Island : Buahine mountains;, Colenso. 



7. Lophocolea subporosa, Mitten ; caule repente ramoso, foliis ovatis sinu rotundato bidentatis inte- 

 gerrirnis, amphigastriis quadridentatis basi uno latere vel utrinque cum foliis subjectis anguste coalitis, peri- 

 anthio prismatico angulo dorsali alato ala denticulata ore laciniis obtusiusculis integris denticulatis, foliis 

 involucralibus conformibus parum latioribus margiue dorsali ventralique parce dentatis amphigastrio sub- 

 elhptico bidentato lateribus rcmotiuscule dentatis basi anguste coalitis. (Tab. XCVII. Pig. 3.) 



Hab. Northern Island: Auckland, Sinclair; creeping amongst Mosses. Wellington, Stephenson in 

 Herb. Mitten. 



Pallide viridis. Caulis uncialis. Folia imbricata, rigidula, e cellulis insequalibus quasi punctata. 



Near as this small species unquestionably is to L. diademata in size and habit, it appears to differ in its thicker 

 and more rigid texture, its wider and less deeply emarginate leaves, and in the undivided and obtuse lacinise of the 

 perianth. The decurrence of the stipule into the leaves is seen more readily in the fertile steins, but it is also to be 

 found occasionally in the sterile, where however one leaf is generally free.— Plate XCVII. Eig. 3 :— 1, plants, na- 

 tural size; 2, a portion of the stem with leaves; 3, a stipule; 4, a perianth and involuoral leaves; 5, iuvolucral 

 leaves and stipule : — all magnified. 



8. Lophocolea biciliata, Mitten ; fuscescens, caule (unciali) procumbente subsimplici, foliis latis com- 

 planatis laxe imbricatis late ovatis deltoideo-ovatisve apice subtruncatis bidentatis sinu obtusissimo, amphi- 

 gastriis parvis profunde bipartitis segmentis extus unidentatis basi uno latere in folium subjectum deeurren- 

 tibus.— Chiloscyphus biciliatus, Hook. fil. el Tayl. in Lond. Joum. Sot. 1845, p. 84. Syn. Hep. p. 707. 

 (Tab. XCVII. Kg. 4.) 



Hab. Northern Island, Colenso. 



This species was described as a Chiloscyphus, but may rather be considered a Lophocolea, from its habit, its 

 tendency to form involucral leaves, and an increase in the size of the stipules towards the apex, observed on one of 

 the stems. It approaches in size the larger forms of L. bidentata, but has wider leaves, with more ciliiform teeth, 

 and a thinner, more vitreous texture. More perfect specimens of this plant would probably exhibit the stipule com- 

 bined on both sides with the subjacent leaves, as in L. Marliana, Nees, a species to which must be referred the L. 

 pertusa and Chiloscyphus jugulifolius of Taylor; the latter is founded on a barren specimen, but, so far as it is pos- 

 sible to judge, it differs in no respect from the common South American plant.— Plate XCVII. Eig. 4 :— 1, a 

 plant, natural size ,■ 2, a portion of the stem, with leaves and stipule -.—magnified. 



9. Lophocolea allodonta, Hook. fil. et Tayl., Flor. Antarct. p. 155. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep p 163 et 

 693. (Tab. XCVII. Tig. 5.) 



Hab. Northern Island : on Weinmannia, at Tarawera, Colenso. 



An obscure species, found in Lord Auckland's Islands, distinguished from its near allies in size and habit by 

 its simply bipartite stipules, of which the segments are lanceolate : the plants only resemble Calypogeia Tricho- 

 manis, Baddi, in the powerful piperaeeous odour which they exhale. The areolation consists of rather large cells 

 surrounded by thick interstices.— Plate XCVII. Eig. 5 :— 1, a plant, natural size; 2, a portion of the stem with 

 leaves and stipule : — magnified. 



10. Lophocolea textilis, Hook. fil. et Tayl, Flor. Antarct. p. 435. t. 158./. 9. 



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