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ligulatis, ad 5 mm. latis subplanis. Costa angusta, poslice valde producta, 

 medio 10 cellulas crassa, abrupte in alas excurrens. Alœ grosse spinosse, 

 spinis minus remotis, e lata basi setaceis, in piano incurvis. Cellulas 

 alarum ad costam 54 X 72 {x, medio 45 X 54 ji, margine 27 X 72, jj., 

 parietibus sequaliter incrassatis. Squama fem. late inserla, subquadrata, 

 apice truncalo-rotundata, ad medium varie lacinulata. Calyptra crassa, 

 maxime mncosa. Capsula ovalis^, 2 mm. longa in pedicello 2 cm. longo. 

 Sporœ 18 \i, granulatse. Elateres ad 600 [x attenuatae, fibra laxe torta, 

 Andrœcia linearia, bracteis secus costam biseriatis cucullatis, pauci- 

 spinosis. 

 Hab. New Zealand (Golenso, Zürn). 



2. Symphyogyna crassicosta St. n. sp. 



Dioica. parva, rigida, pallde-virens vel flavescens. Frons e caudice 

 maxime ramoso procumbens, simplex vel e latere coslae ramosa, ad 

 10 mm. longa, vix 3 mm. lata, superne semper attenuata, decurva, 

 ambitu oblonga medio infero subexalato. Costa lata, medio 12 cellulas 

 crassa, postice optime producta, longe in alas attenuata. Fasciculum 

 fibrovasale crassum hyalinum. Alœ crispatse, basi crassse, limbo tenui 

 10 cellulas tantum lato, margine grosse spinoso, spinis confertis, e lata 

 basi attenuatis, in piano incurvis, alœ ad basin frondis in slipite angusle 

 alato et crebre dentato longe attenuatse. Cellulœ alarum ad costam 

 45 X 90 pi. medio 45 X 72 [j. margine 27 X 27 jx vel longiores. Squama 

 fem. late inserta, subquadrata, parum breviterque lobata, basi crassa, 

 antice lobulis similibus obsita. Andrœcia sec\i& costam biseriata, bracteis 

 remotis profunde saccatis, apice emarginato-biciliatis, interdum in ramis 

 posticis anguslissimis creberrime spinosis crebre biseriata. 



Hab. New Zealand (Kirk) in rupibus calcareis irroratis. 



3. Symphyogyna leptothelia Tayl. J. of Bot. 1846, p. 408. 

 Dioica, mediocris, flaccida, viridis. Frons ad 35 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, 



simplex vel postice ramosa, procumbens, subplana. Costa angusta, 

 biconvexa, medio 8 cellulas crassa, sensim in alas attenuata. Alœ superne 

 angusta Laî, margine breviter dentatse, dentibus validis remotis, 3 cellulas 

 longis, subrecle patulis. Cellulx alarum ad costam 63 X 100 {x, medio 

 54 X 90 jj., margine 27 X 72 [x. Andrœcia secus costam biseriata, 

 bracteis remoliusculis. profunde excisis, bispinosis. 



Ilab. Brasilia (Sellow, Wainio, Ule), Peru (Matliiews, Spruce). 



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