154 FLORA OE NEW ZEALAND. \_Hepatica. 



Hab. Throughout the Islands, abundant, Menzies, etc. 



No collector seems to have met with the fruit of this species since Menzies. 



Gen. XVII. EADULA, Nees. 



1. Eadula buccinifera, Hook. fil. et Tayl. ; caule implexo prostrato ramoso, ramis patentibus, foliis 

 subimbricatis patentibus integerrimis lobo superiore obovato-rotundato convexiusculo inferiore minuto tra- 

 pezoideo adpresso, perianthio demum axillari ex angusta basi obconico subcompresso truncato. — Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. 1844, p. 580. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 261. 



Hab. Northern Island : Tararua mountains, and Fagus forests, Manawatu, etc., Colenso. Amongst 

 Mosses and Lichens, near Wellington, Stephenson. Port Nicholson, Lyall. 



Luteo-viridis, fuscescens. Caulis pollicaris, pinnatim ramosus. Folia laxe imbricata, apice rotundata, lobulo 

 subquadrato, apice cauli incurvo. Perianthium longissimum, subcylindricum, superne compressum, ore ampliato in- 

 tegerrimo. 



Very closely resembling R. Novce-Hollandice, Hampe, but differing in its obtuse leaves, which are more minutely 

 areolate, and in the sinuate upper margin of the lobule, whence its apex is curved round towards the stem. It is a 

 much smaller species than R. complanata. A specimen of R. Novce-Hollandice, communicated by Dr. Lehmann, 

 consists partly of the species described under that name, with acute leaves, and partly of R. buccinifera, to which 

 last probably belong all the obtuse obovate-leaved specimens attributed in the description to R. Novce-Hollandice. 



2. Eadula physoloba, Mont., in Voy. au Pole Sud, Sot. Crypt, t. 17./. 4. Flor. Antarct.p. 162. 

 Hab. Northern Islands : forests at Manawatu river, Colenso. 



3. Eadula uvifera, Hook. fil. et Tayl., Lond. Journ. Bot. 1844, p. 392. Flor. Antarct.p. 162. 

 G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 258 et 729. E. multicarinata, Ldbg. I. c.p. 258? 



Hab. Northern Island : near Wellington, Stephenson {Herb. Mitten). Euahine mountains, Waira- 

 rapa Valley, Cook's Straits, etc., Colenso. 



Also a native of Lord Auckland's Group. The description of R. multicarinata, Ldbg., applies so well to this 

 species, that there seems but little doubt of its identity. It is a remarkably neat plant, and it agrees in its nume- 

 rous slender male spikes with R.formosa, Nees. 



4. Eadula plicata, Mitten ; caule gracili procambente pinnatim ramoso, foliis obovato-rotundis 

 lobulo oblongo quadruplo minore angulo acuto, perianthio elongato lineari applanato subseptemplicato. 



Hab. Northern Island : creeping over a fern with B. buccinata, Auckland, Sinclair. 



Caulis pollicaris, gracilis. Folia imbricata, rotundata, lobulo oblongo parum ventricoso, angulo recto. Peri- 

 antMum angustum, a basi ad apicem dorso bi- ventre tri-carinatum, ore truncato, labiis integerrimis. 



So closely allied to R. huccinata in size and general appearance, as to be easily passed over for that species ; but 

 an examination of its perianths at once shows it to be allied to R. multicarinata alone, which is however a much 

 larger plant, with differently shaped leaves and a more numerously and finely plicate perianth. 



5. Eadula complanata, Dumort. G. L. et N. Syn. Hep. p. 257. Flor. Antarct.p. 161. 

 Hab. Northern Island : trunks of Alectryon at Eaukawa, Colenso. (A native of England.) 



A native of Europe, and also found in Campbell's Island. A small state, without fruit, and bearing gemma? 

 on the edge of its leaves, as in common British forms. 



6. Eadula marginata, Hook. fil. et Tayl. ; caule implexo procumbente complanato vage ramoso, foliis 

 disticliis subimbricatis patentibus lobo superiori oblongo-rotundato integerrimo marginato inferiori ovato- 



