28 Zoopsis. Alobiella 



perauguste prismaticae cliloropbyllosse. Folia brevissimo spatio dissita, 

 distincte bilob'a, basi celliilis 2 maximis j)araboloidiis (cellulis caulinis an- 

 ticis sequimagnis) plus minus alte connatis, quaque cellula apiculo in- 

 curvo filiformi (e cellula unica 6-plo longiore quam lata, vel rarius e 

 duabus uniseriatis) aucta, constantia. Caetera nonbabui. — CauUs, ciim 

 foliis, -35 "™ latus ; ceUulce folii hasales '08 x "06, c. ajyicales unguifonnes 

 •08 — -06 ^^'^^ longce. 



Hah. Nova Zelandia, etc. cum priore. In insulis Aucklandicis pri- 

 mum legit A. Cunningham. 



5. CEPHALOzia MONODACTYLA Spi'UCe. 



Monoica minutissima subramosa flagellifera cladocarpa. Caules 

 prostrati 5 — 10™™longi filiformes trigono-prismatici, (supra plani subtus 

 carinati), cellulis 5-seriatis, quarum corticalibus majusculis 4-seriatis 

 pellucidis, internis 1-seriatis tenuissimis cbloropbyllosis, conflati. Folia 

 spatio cellularum caulis duarum dissita, cellulis 2 constantia, sc. altera 

 inferiore magna truncato-conica, altera superiore 4-plo breviore tenui 

 unguiformi. Foliola 0. Bracte^ 1 — 2-jugae, tristiclis, periantbio triplo 

 breviores, liberae vel postice subconnatae, profunda bipartitae, laciniis 

 subulatis elongato-cellulosis. Perianthia maxima, folliis 16-plo longiora, 

 trigono-subulata, ore profunde 6-fida, laciniis ciliiformibus. Calyptra 

 parva tenuis. Capsula oblonga. Rami (^ caeteris ramis aequimagni ; hr. 

 plurijugae confertae secundas subulatag cellulis 5 vel 6 constantes, integrae 

 bifidaeve, monandrae ; bracteolce 0. — Caulis i/ioi^m latus; cell. ^l^°'^^lougce ; 

 folia -06; br. -3— 4 ; '7^^/- 1.0 x -2^111. 



Hub. in sylvis fl. Negro superioris, juxta cataractas praecipue, in terra 

 nuda saepeque ad cumulos vermibus magnis suffossos. 



Subgenus IV. ALOBIELLA Spruce. 



PlantcB mediocres albicantes facie (nisi j)ro foliis succubis) 

 niagis Kantice (Calypogeice) quam CephalozicB. Caulis postice 

 ramosus, ramique foliosi — raro flagellares. Folia fere longi- 

 tudinaliter inserta, distiche patula, plana Integra — raro 

 alia Integra alia apice bidentella — laxe pellucide reticu- 

 lata; cellulcB majusculse vel fere magnge, subrectangulares, 

 duplo longiores quam latse. Foliola aliis speciebus prsesentia, 



