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Plants stipulate, or without stipules, leaves sub- 

 current, flattened, divided. 



Jungfermannia Bantriensis, Hook. 



Stem nearly erect, simple, leaves rounded- 

 ovate, lunately emarginate, two-toothed, plane, 

 perichaetial leaves similar, stipules small, lan- 

 ceolate, awl-shaped, incised, dentate ; perianth 

 naked, obovate, mouth ciliate-toothed. 



Jungermannia Bantriensis, Hook. Br. Jung. 

 No. 41, note ; Cooke Hep. fig. 70; Gott. and 

 Rab. Exs. No. 305 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 

 246. Jungermannia bidentata var. Bantriensis, 

 Hook. Br. Jung. Syn. p. 16., Suppl. t. 3. 



var. major, Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 105. 



Plants forming dense tufts or patches ; in habit 

 much resembling/, cordifolia. Stems mostly erect, 

 flexuose, simple, or sparingly dichotomous, with 

 suberect branches, sometimes more procumbent, 

 with divaricate branches. Leaves secund, far 

 rounder in outline, and attached by a narrower 

 base than in J. bidentata, gradually increas- 

 ing in size from base to summit of stem, 

 terminal ones three times the size of the 

 lowest, all emarginate, or more rarely tridentate, 

 with obtuse, acute, or apiculate segments ; the lower 

 with a lunulate sinus, and entire margin ; the upper 

 subacutely and often irregularly emarginate, angular 

 or toothed at the margins. Colour varies from 

 yellowish green to deep olive, never whitish. Leaves 

 of branches and innovations narrower, more deeply 



