Lophocolea. 
V. HEPATIC;®. 
509 
toothed. — L. multipenna, in part, of FI. Antarct. 155. ?L. connata, Swartz, 
of Montague in Yoy. au Pole Sud, 255. 
Northern Island: Auckland, Sinclair. Lord Auckland’s group, J. D. II., mixed 
with L. decipiens and Leioscyphus chiloscyphoideus. The description in FI. Antarct. is 
very inaccurate, owing to the intermixture of these species. Odour sweet. 
2. L. heterophylloid.es, Nees ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 135. Stems \ in. long, 
procumbent, nearly simple. Leaves yellow-green, imbricate, horizontal or 
semivertical, flat, orbicular-ovate, rather retuse. Stipules 2-fid, ciliate, toothed 
at the base, decurrent and connate on one side to the leaf below. Perianth 
triquetrous ; mouth 3-lipped, toothed. — Syn. Hep. 157. Chiloscyphus cana- 
liculatus, Hook. f. and Tayl. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1844, 563 (perianth inac- 
curately described) ; Syn. Hep. 710. 
Northern and Middle Islands : from the Bay of Islands, J. D. JET., to Canterbury, 
Lyall. (Tasmania.) Often fragrant. 
3. L, biciliata, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 137. t. 97. /. 4. Stem 1 in. 
long, procumbent, nearly simple. Leaves broad, spreading, brownish-green, 
loosely imbricate, deltoid- ovate, truncate and 2-toothed, teeth slender. Sti- 
pules small, 2-partite ; segments 2-toothed on one side. — Chiloscyphus, Hook, 
f. and Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1845, 84 ; Syn. Hep. 707. 
Northern Island, Colenso. (Specimens imperfect, and affinity doubtful.) 
4. L. Colensoi, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 138. t. 97./. 6. Stems 2-3 
in. long, creeping, branched. Leaves brownish-green, imbricate, ovate- 
oblong, truncate, shortly 2-dentate ; teeth sometimes obsolete. Stipules 2- 
partite ; segments 1 -toothed on each side. 
Northern Island: East Coast, on wood, Colenso. The largest known species of the 
genus. 
5. L. subporosa. Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 137. t. 97. /. 3. Stems 1 
in. high, creeping, branched. Leaves pale green, imbricate, rather rigid ; 
ovate, 2-dentate; cells unequal, involucral spinulose. Stipules 4 -toothed, 
narrowly decurrent on one or both sides. Perianth narrow-oblong, 3-gonous, 
dorsal angle with a toothed wing ; laminae subobtuse, entire or toothed. 
Northern Island: Auckland, Sinclair; Wellington, Stephenson. 
5. L. triacantha, Hook. f. and Tayl.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 138. Stems 2 
in. long, creeping, branched. Leaves spreading, flat, fuscous-green, close-set ; 
ovate-quadrate, truncate and 3-cuspidate. Stipules palmately 4-fid; segments 
setaceous, one side decurrent. Perianth unknown. 
Northern and Middle Islands : bills at Pahiatua, Colenso; Akaroa, Raoul; Port 
Nicholson, Mantell. 
6. L. leucophylla, Tayl.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 138. Stems 2-3 in. long, 
slender, creeping, branched. Leaves pale greenish or whitish-brown, closely 
imbricate, rather horizontal than vertical, convex, membranous, cellular, pel- 
lucid, triangular-ovate ; margins strongly recurved, broadly connate, with the 
stipules, sharply toothed all round. Perianth terminal ; lacinise entire, obtuse. 
— Chiloscyphus, FI. Antarct. 157. t. 65. f. 4; Syn. Hep. 181 and 706. 
Northern Island : top of the Rnahine mountains, Colenso. 
