212 KM. MESCMEREIXE. 



folia perichaelialia erecta elongata magis cuspidata. Flos mas- 

 culus gemmiformis û-5-foliatus, in axillis infra perichsetium 

 nascens. Ai'chegonia crassa brevistyla p&raphysibus longioribus 

 cincta. Capsula in pedicello 6-8 millim. longo fuscescente, minute 

 ovata castanea microstoma, oreplicato. Vagin u la pilosa brevis. 

 Calyptra basi multifida. Operculum longe apiculatum. Peristo- 

 mium simplex deutibus crassis apice rotundatis griseis. Sporse 

 olivacese. 



Balade (Vieillard, n° 173/i), ad truncos prope Nouméa (Ba- 

 lansa, n° 2563). 



CRYPTOCARPUS Dz. etMolkb. 



Cryptocarpus c\'MosusMitt., in Flora Vitiensi, pag. 381. — 

 « Gaulis radicans, foliis sursum curvis appressis lanceolatis; 

 » rami erecli, humiles, in eespitem congesti, foliis patenti- 

 » ineurvis ligulalis obtusis, costa in mucronem excurrente, 

 » margine basin versus papillis elongatis setiformibus ciliatis, 

 » cellulis superioribus rotundis obscuris, inferioribus angustis 

 » pellucidioribus, subito in fertilibus, in foliis abbreviatis, quin- 

 » quefariis imbricatis e basi erecta patenti-recurvis late ovatis 

 » obtusis, costa llava in mucronem excurrente, margine basi 

 » crenulatamutatis; folia perichaetialia erecta, oblonga, obtusa : 

 » inferne cellulis angustis pellucidis areolata; capsula ovata, oie 

 » nigro fusco nitido; ramus fruclifer infra perichsetium inno- 

 » vans, interdum subcymoso-divisus. » 



Ex insula dicta des Pins (Milne, ex cl. Mitten, toc. cit.) f . 



ENTOSTHODON Schgr. 



Entosthodon noumeanus Besch. — Monoicus. Cespites densi. 

 Folia cauliua pauca in rosulam laxam congesta ovato-lau- 

 ceolata acuminata, margine cellulis paulo prominulis subden- 

 ticulato, costa infra apicem evauèscente. Capsula in pedicello 

 7-1 5 millim. longo gracili tlexuoso lortili pallide rubello, pirifor- 

 mis elongata mollis viridi-l'usca microstoma, evacuala obconica 



