ANDREAEACEAE. ood 
having the upper part reflexed; the base ovate-lanceolate or very 
indistinetly lyrate, be apare ae, the subula long, narrow, an 
very opaque; the basal cells all elongate, and highly incrassate, 
the upper very es: one smoot 
A. acutifolia has a wide distribution in the ae insular 
regions, including the Auckland and Campbell Is.; 
name, and both belong, I believe, to other species; Colenso, 2743, 
appears to be A. petrophila, and Colenso, 2934, probably 
acuminata. A specimen however from Mt. Earnshaw, L. Wakatipu, 
4-5,000 ft., Jan. 1890, collected by W. Bell, and sent me by Mr. 
Petrie, apears to be quite correctly referred here. ane a specimen 
in Brown’s herbarium, A. subulata R. Br. ter. MS. in Herb., Craigie- 
burn, West Coast Road, coll. R. Brown, is the same thing. It is 
evidently a rare species in New Zealand. 
4. A. micro-vaginata C.M. in Hedwig., xxxvii, 80 (1898). 
I have seen no specimen of this, and am not clear of its affinity. 
The original ee ption is vague; Roth’s figures however show a 
leaf very differe Hon: any of the other species of this group, 
having the leaves holy and narrowly subulate from a very small 
short ovate bas 
Both C. Mueller and Roth describe the leaves as nerveless, and 
Roth figures them so. Frankly, however, I strongly suspect the 
leaves to be neta and the ‘ph nt to be nothing more than A. 
subulata, in which the nerve is broad and very ill- defined, so as 
to appear as ee and indeed the species was at first described 
as such; the rest of the description of the present plant by Roth 
and by its author atone points in that direction. In the absence, 
however, of authentic specimens, and the distinct statement on the 
part of both aushors that the leaves are nerveless, I feel bound to 
retain the speci 
It was soliesel by Beckett on rocks by lake, Kelly’s Range, 
Westland. 
B. Leaves NERVED. 
5. A. subulata me in Hook. Ie. Pl. Rar. III, t. 201 (1841) ; Handb- 
N.Z. F1., p. 400. 
Syn. a Saeudy: subulata C.M. in Bot. Zeit. xxx, 1864, 
373. A. dicranoides R. Br. ter. in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 
25, 280. A. a et KBr. ter; op cit. p. "981. 
A. BBC as Se, p. et loc. cit. A. arctoaeoides 
C.M. & Beck., op. ate “vo ke p. 293. A. subulatissima 
C.M. in Hedwig., vol. a 
This very distinct species was rae Sicha from the Cape of 
Good Hope, and C. Mueller created his A. ee, to 
distinguish the Fuegian species, while Hook. f. & Wils. have further 
distinguished two varieties, var. rigida and var. perichaetialis. After 
examining the types of these and a eonsiderable range of New 
