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and clothed beneath with purple-brown rootlets ; leaves or lobes, sub-nabel- 

 late, under 1 line diameter, very thin, transparent, minutely crenulate on 

 upper margin, closely imbricated at base free above ; iuvolucral leaves 

 paler, longer, and lacerate at tips ; areolse minute but prominent, sub- 

 rhomboid-orbicular, more oblong in iuvolucral leaves ; stipule ; perianth 

 terminal and sub-terminal on short lateral branchlets, cylindric, oblong, 

 whitish, mouth gaping, jagged, often two together closely adjoining at tip ; 

 peduncle rather stout, striate and septate, 3 lines long ; capsule globular, 

 minutely pitted, at first purple afterwards brown, bursting irregularly, 3-4 

 valves ; valves sub-rhombic-ovate, lacerate, minutely reticulate, 



Hab. Among mosses, etc., shady banks, Scinde Island, Napier ; 

 August, 1883: W.C. 



Genus 26. Petalophyllum. Gottsche. 

 1. Petalophyllum australis, sp. nov. 



Ehizome short, stout, fleshy, with fine hair-like rootlets. Frond single, 

 procumbent, sub-rotund, 6-8 lines diameter, reflexed, sub-bilobed, largely 

 lamellate waved and crisped above, nerved below, margin sinuate and finely 

 crenulate, colour bright light green with reddish-brown margins ; perianth 

 large, bell-shaped, open, crisped, mouth much laciuiate ; peduncle stout, 

 1J inches long, white, succulent, very tender ; capsule large, globular, more 

 than 1 line diameter, dark brown, finely pitted, bursting irregularly and 

 raggedly, bearing large brown tessellated markings ; sporules circular and 

 tuberculated ; elaters geminate, twisted and truncate. 



Hab. Among mosses and Hepaticce, Petane, near Napier ; 1883 : 

 Mr. Hamilton. 



Obs. A rather scarce, or, from its smallness, overlooked plant, posses- 

 sing pretty close alliance with the single British species P. ralfsii, which 

 it also resembles. I have only seen 3 specimens that I picked out from 

 among mosses and Hepatica. 



Genus 30. Symphyogyna, Mont, and Nees. 

 1. Symphyogyna crispula, sp. nov. 



Plant terrestrial, single, stipitate, erect, dark green. Frond dichotomous, 

 flabellate, 6-8 lines long, 9-12 lines broad, segments broadly-linear, 2 lines 

 wide, very obtuse, deeply emarginate, distantly serrate above and in sinuses 

 but not below, undulate and crisped, wide at base and broadly decurrent on 

 stipe ; cellules large, elliptical, nerves dark brown, stout, extending to base 

 of apical notch. Stipe dark brown, \ inch long, stout, flexuose, with fine 

 rootlets at base. Involucral scale on upper surface at main forks and 

 scattered on nerves, several on a frond, middle size, \\ lines wide, papillose, 

 very laciniate ; lacinise irregular and transversely barred. Calyptra stout, 

 2 lines long, shortly pedunoled, sub-clavate, finely papillose, light green, 

 largely fimbriate at mouth ; fimbriee red, stout, truncate, barred. 



