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Leaves serrulate, inner teeth connected. 



B. tenuis, Tayl. Stems slender, fasciculately 

 branched ; branches slender, flexuous ; leaves loosely 

 spreading, secund, narrow, lanceolate, serrulate, 

 margins flat, acuminate, with a long spinous point, 

 nerve excurrent; perichoetial erect, setaceous point. 

 Fruitstalk long, slender. Capsule inclined ; cilia of 

 internal peristome connected at apices; male flowers 

 capitulate, perigonial leaves incurved, long acuminate, 

 serrulate. Deep Gully, Mt. Wellington. 



Leaves entire. 



4. B. affinis, Hook. Stems tomentose, sparingly fascicu- 

 lately branched ; leaves erecto-patent, strict, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, almost entire, margin recurved, 

 stout nerve, long excurrent. Fruitstalk short. Cap- 

 sule sub-pendulous, oblong, sub-pyriform, sulcate. 

 Lid conical. Kangaroo Bottom, Mt. Wellington. 



Breutelia, leaves sheathing, plicate, squarrose ; inflorescence dioicous ; 

 male flowers discoid. 



Upper cells of leaf short, capsule pendulous. 



5. B. pendula, Hook. Stems tomentose, branches fas- 

 cicled ; leaves spreading, ovate-lanceolate, long acumi- 

 nate, serrulate, striate, nerve excurrent. Fruitstalk 

 elongate; capsule pendulous, oblong, sulcate. Mt. 

 Wellington. Alt., 2,O00ft. 



Nerve sub-excurrent, leaves plicate. 



6. B. crassa, Hook /. and Wils. Stems Tin. high, 



tomentose, rigid, sparingly and vaguely branched; 

 leaves yellowish, glossy, not crisped when dry, dense, 

 patent, generally secund, amplexicant, ovate at the 

 base, lanceolate-acuminate, plicate, serrulate, nerve 

 narrow, sub-excurrent. Fruitstalk 1-Hn. long, capsule 

 large, oblong, inclined. Creek above Wellington 

 Falls. 



Upper cells of leaf long, capsule pendulous. 



7. B. Sieberi, Hornsch. Stems lin. high, procumbent or 



sub-erect, tomentose, leaves yellowish green, not 

 shining, erecto-patent, lanceolate, nerve narrow, ex- 

 current, setaceous at the point, margin serrulate, 

 recurved below, cells elongate, narrow, papillose, 

 Fruitstalk lin. high, red ; capsule pendulous, ovoid, 

 plicate ; lid flat-conical ; peristome small, normal. 



