BY E. A. BASTOW, F.L.S. 249 



sinus ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, straight or 

 slightly diverging. Syn. Hep. 239. Hook. Brit. 

 Jung. t. 4, and Suppl. t. 1. PI. xxi. 



This plant, like those from New Zealand, corresponds 

 nearly with the species from Great Britain. 



A few stems picked out of other Hepaticae Gunn. 



In bogs summit of Mount Wellington, Oldfield. (New 

 Zealand, India, Europe). 



^. S. scoLOPENDEA, Nees. See genus Leperoma. PI. xxi. 



3. S. FLAGGELiPERA, Nees. See genus MastigopJiora. PI. xxi. 



2L LEPEKOMA, Mitten. 

 This name is proposed by Mitten for Sendtnera scolopendra, 

 also for 8. ochroleuca and 8. attenuata of the New Zealand 

 species. Leaves distinct, incubous, without an inferior 

 lesser lobe. Perianth leafy. Fruit lateral. 



The leaves and stipules deeply cleft ; calyptra adnate with 

 the involucral leaves ; fruit near the top of the stem. 



1. L. SCOI.OPENDEA, 8endtnera scolopendra, Nees. Hook. 

 Muse. Exot. t. 40. Fl. N.Z. ii., 153. Stems 3-6in. 

 long, erect, pinnate, branches deflexed, attenuated to 

 the tips, flageliform, naked, often rooting. Leaves 

 and stipules closely imbricate, scarious, rigid, oblong, 

 2-fid ; segments diverging, again 2-fid, acuminate, 

 diaphanous. Perianth in the axils of lateral branches, 

 obovate, 4-fid, covered with imbricating leaves. Hook. 

 Handbook, Fl. N.Z., 528. PI. xxi. 



Summit of Mount Wellington, Oldfield, R.A.B. 

 (New Zealand, Lord Auckland's Group, Campbell's 

 Island.) 



22. LBPIDOZIA, Nees. 

 Fruit lateral. 

 Leaves and stipules deeply cleft ; perianth near base of stem, 3 gonous. 

 Stems creeping, often very minute and slender, throwing out 

 rootlets from the ventral surface. Leaves incubous, 

 obscurely distichous, 4-toothed or 4-cleft. Stipules 

 present. Fruit lateral. Involucral leaves numerous, short, 

 broad, toothed. Perianth near base of stem, elongate, 3 

 angled, the faces hollow; mouth toothed. Calyptra mem- 



