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81. H. clandestinum, Hook. /. and Wils. Monoicous. 

 Male flowers amongst the leaves of the fertile stem. 

 Stem creeping, vaguely branched straight or incurved. 

 Leaves spreading, imbricate, broadly oblong, very 

 obtuse, inflate-concave, like a boat, scarcely nerved. 

 Perichsetial sub-squarrose ; capsule ovoid, cernuous ; 

 lid conical. On moist trunks of trees, Mt. Wellington. 



82.// diuulsum, Hook./ and Wils. Dioicous. Stem 

 long, filiform, vaguely branched ; branches rigid, sub- 

 ereit, curved or straight. Leaves spreading, loosely 

 imbricate, rounded obovate, concave, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, minutely serrulate, nerve reaching half way, 

 areolation punctiform ; perichsetial squarrose. Cap- 

 sule ovoid, cernuous. Lid conical, acuminate. Shady 

 places ; gully, foot of Grass Tree Hill. 



S3. H. chlamydophyllum, Hook. /. and Wils. Monoicous. 

 Stems prostrate, vaguely branched. Branches long, 

 erect, simple, cuspidate. Leaves spreading, imbricate, 

 orbicular-sub-quadrate, auricled, sub-pellucid at the 

 base, concave, quite entire, nerve vanishing, very short. 

 Fruitstalk long ; capsule ovoid-oblong, cernuous ; lid 

 conical. H. auriculatum, Mont. On moist banks. Mt. 

 Wellington. 



34. H. uagum, Hornsch. Stems ascending, stout, much 

 vaguely branched. Leaves broadly ovate, shortly 

 acuminate, almost nerveless ; perichsetial long, sheath- 

 ing, more or less reflexed. Fruitstalk elongate, erect, 

 smooth, flexuous. Capsule oblong, nearly horizontal, 

 purple ; lid conical, subulate, straight. Hook. Hand- 

 book N.Z Fl. 



K. DlSTICHOPHYLLA. 



35. H. extenuatum, Bridel. Dioicous. Stems procumbent. 

 3in. long or more. Irregularly and bipinnately 

 branched, with short erect branches, often fasciculate, 

 with numerous flagelliform branchlets ; leaves yel- 

 lowish, somewhat glossy, spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, piliferous, nerve ; those of the upper 

 branches appressed, narrower, muticous ; perichseetial 

 erect, quite entire, apices capillary- Fruitstalk long, 

 smooth. Capsule ovoid, inclined. Leaves less 

 piliferous than II. criniivm. Mt. Wellington. 



