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13. Lethocolea, L. concinna, L Drummondii, 

 **** Stems procumbent, stipulate. 



14. Balantiopsis, B. diplojohylla. 

 II. Fruit lateral. 



Stems erect or ascending, stipules 



15. Marstjpidium, M. TJrvilleana. 

 11. Ttlimanthus, Mitten. 



Perianth, a descending fleshy bag. 

 Fruit terminal. 



Stems erect or ascending ; leaves nearly entire ; stipules 0. 



1. T SACCATA, GymnantJie saccata, Tayl. in PI. Autarct. 



153. Stems erect from a creeping rhizome, 2-3 in. 

 long, flexuous, fertile incurved. Leaves distant, 8 

 farious, distichous, ovate-quadrate, flat, decurrent, 

 truncate, emarginate ; ventral margin and apex 

 toothed ; dorsal sub-reflexed, entire. Involucre ter- 

 minal, fleshy. Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 16, O. tenella, 

 Hook, f. and Tayl. PI. N.Z. ii., 143. Syn. Hep., 192, 

 712. PI. Tasm. ii., 229, t. 179, f. 3, /. ahhreviata, 

 Hook. f. and Tayl. in Lend. Jour. Bot. 1843, 374. 

 Syn. Hep, 647 (Flagiocliila) , PI. xvi. 



Oven's Creek, Archer, Pork Creek, Bodivay (New 

 Zealand, Lord Auckland's Group, Puegia.) 



A common and variable plant, G. tenella, seems to 

 be a small state of it. Hook. Handbook PI. IST.Z. 



2. T. Tenella, Gymnanthe tenella, Tayl. in Lond. Jour. 



Bot. 1844, p. 377. Stem simple, ascending. Leaves 

 sub-imbricate, erecto-patent, concave, sub-secund, 

 obovate from a narrow base, aj^ex very obtuse, bilobed, 

 dentate. Receptacle elongate, obconic, striate. PI. 

 xvi. 



Stems scarcely tufted, erect, slightly incurved above, 

 from one to three inches long, prolonged at the top 

 by annual innovations arising from the base of the 

 perichastium, when this is present. The leaves, in 

 the series from the base to the summit of the stem, 

 are constantly increasing in size. The receptacle is 

 elongate, obconical, of a pale tawny colour, striated ; 

 the barren pistilla are crowded, erect, linear, covered by 

 a pair of laciniated scales, descending at a considerable 

 angle from the stem and emitting rootlets. The 

 perigonia are spikes situated in the course of the 

 stems, and have leaves closely imbricated, erect, swollen 



