358 Transactions.— Botany. 
2. A. bipinnatifida, sp. nov. 
Plant prostrate and sub-ascending, straight and sub-flexuose, somewhat 
crisp, very brittle, 1-2 inches long, flat, linear, simple and 2-branched at 
base, bipinnatifid, main stem 1 line wide, margins entire, lobes or sub- 
branchlets opposite, sometimes sub-opposite or alternate, 1-8 lines long, 
4 line wide, linear, pinnatifid sometimes simple, ultimate lobules very 
obtuse, retuse emarginate or slightly crenulate, tips sub-incurved ; colour 
green ; involucre springing from upper part of plant, large, irregular, torn ; 
calyptra 8-4 lines long, cylindrical, white, clavate, papillose and finely 
pilose; mouth deeply toothed with 4-5 triangular teeth ; peduncle 1 inch or 
more long; capsule cylindrical, oblong, finely striate, purple before bursting, 
rich chestnut-brown after; valves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved ; 
elaters and spores adhering in long pencilled masses at tips. 
Hab. Among small m mosses, etc., wet shady grounds, Scinde 
Island, Napier, August, 1883 : 
Obs.—A species near 4. re Nees; but still nearer to a Cape Horn 
species, A. alvicornis, Hook. fil. 
A, filicina, sp nov. 
Plant terrestrial, gregarious in small compact patches, dark green. 
Frond stipitate, erect, arising from a dark, creeping, rooting, rhizome, 
sub-coriaceous, somewhat rigid, brittle, broadly obovate, sub-tripinnate, 
14-2 inches high, 2-1 inch broad, pinne opposite, rather distant, sub- 
bipinnate, sub-flabellate, much cut, lobes linear, narrow, truncate, laciniate, 
recurved, main rhachis nearly 1 line wide, apex truncate, branched nearly 
to base, stipe very short; cellules large, pentangular-orbicular, evidently two 
series or strata in the middle of lobes ; involucres numerous, scattered 
underneath, mostly below axils of upper lacinie, and on main rhachis near 
top, composed of small sub-quadrangular whitish scales, each having a 
minute spur-like projection at its outer upper corners, truncate at top very 
minutely incised ; calyptra near top of frond, 2-2} lines long, cylindrical, 
whitish, minutely pubescent in transverse rings or lines, pubescence brown, 
a minute contracted brownish pencilled tuft at apex before opening, mouth 
(open) truncate and bifid; 2-3 calyptre often very close together; mature 
fruit not seen, but only within calyptre, capsule linear-oblong, blackish. 
Hab. On wet clayey banks near watercourses, shaded forests, Norse- 
wood, 1879-1883: W.C. 
Obs.—A pretty species, evidently allied to A. prehensilis, Mitt. ; hitherto 
only met with in a few detached spots, and there not plentiful, and rarely 
in fruit. The involucres have a sub-lunate appearance, reminding me of 
the outline (in miniature) of the cauline leaves of Drosera lunata. 
