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, 1-3 lines long, 

 ■| 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 ; 

 cah/ptra 3-4 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. 



Hob. Among small herbage, mosses, etc., wet shady grounds, Scinde 

 Island, Napier, August, 1883: W.C. 



Obs. — A species near A. palmata, Nees ; but still nearer to a Cape Horn 

 species, A. alcicomis, 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, 

 1^-2 inches high, f— 1 inch broad, pinna? 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 laciniae, 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, 2-2J 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 calyptra? often very close together ; mature 

 fruit not seen, but only within calyptra?, 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. 



