1886.] 



HEPATICAE NATALENSES. 



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pairs of leaves, crowded, capitate, leaves divided about ^4*^^ 

 of their length into 3 segments 4 single cells long with a 

 double ro w at the base, undivided part 6 and 7 cells wide; 

 underleaves on perigonial brancbes bifid, as long as the leaves, 

 antheridia solitary, oval, stipitate, about 4 on a branch. 



Measurements. Stem diam. .15 mm X .125 mm, .125 X 

 .1, leaves .5 mm long, .4, .3; .05 mm broad; cells .15 long 

 X .075, .12 X .05, .11 X .05, .1 X .05. Underleaves 

 .15 mm long X .14 mm broad seg. .1 mm long. Bracts 

 1.5 mm to 1.8 mm long X .7 mm broad seg. 1. 1.1 long; 

 bracteole 1.1 mm long X .5 mm broad. Pistillidia .25 mm 

 long X .5 mm thick. Perianth 2.75 mm long X .7 mm 

 broad, cilia .5 to .8 mm long. Capsiile .7 X .5, spores .015, 

 elaters, .11 mm long X .01 mm broad. Perigonial leaves 

 .55 mm long X .2 mm broad, seg. .4 mm long, .5 mm X 

 .2 seg. .4 antheridia .11 mm X .09 mm. 



Hab. On stones by the river near Umpumulo. 



Notes Dr. Gottsche named the species Jung nematodes 

 from specimens collected by Wright in Cuba but the name 

 had previously been given by Dr. Taylor to a Lepidoda 

 from St. Helena, Lepidosia nemoides Tayl. Hep. ant. Lond. 

 Journ. of Bot. p. 84 n. 13 (1845). «Taylor having tåken 

 the nominative and Gottsche the genitive: that is all the 

 difference." E. S. 



I am not able to detect any specific dilFerence between 

 this and Lepidozia chaetophylla, and a species gathered by 

 Dr. Spruce all through the forests of the Amazon and sent 

 in 1852 to Mr. Borrer under the Mss. name of Jung. chaeto- 

 phylla, so I publish it as a var. of it. 



In the type the stems are thicker, often bipinnate with 

 shorter leaves closer together, perianth sometimes terminal 

 on chief stem. 



Lepidozia hicruris Steph. according to the description 

 and figure (Hedwigia 1885) comes near, but is dioicous, and 

 leaves usually with only two segments, rarely three. 



In addition to South Africa L. chcetophylla is recorded 



