520 
V. HEPATIO/E. 
[ Gymnanthe. 
long, erect from a creeping rhizome, densely setose. Leaves bright yellow- 
green, spreading, 2-farions, closely imbricate, concave, ovate or obovate, un- 
equally 2-lobed ; margins waved and spinulose-toothed all round. Involucre 
unknown. 
Northern Island: Tararua mountains, with Plagiochila falcata , Colenso. — A very 
curious plant, but in the absence of fruit a doubtful Gymnanthe. 
6. G. saccata, Tayl. in FI. Antarct. 153. Stems erect from a creeping 
rhizome, 2-3 in. long, flexuous, fertile incurved. Leaves distant, 3-farious, 
distichous, ovate-quadrate, flat, decurrent, truncate, emarginate ; ventral 
margin and apex toothed ; dorsal subreflexed, entire. Involucre terminal, 
fleshy. — Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 16. G. Urvilleana, Tayl. in El. Antarct. 153 ; 
Syn. Hep. 193. G. tenella, Hook. f. and Tayl. El. N. Z. ii. 143 ; Syn. Hep. 
192 and 712 ; FI. Tasman, ii. 229. t. 179. f. 3. Plagiochila Urvilleana , 
Mont, in Voy. au Pole Sud, t. 16. J. abbreviata, Hook. f. and Tayl. in Lond. 
Journ. Bot. 1843, 374 ; Syn. Hep. 647 ( Plagiochila ). 
Throughout the Northern and Middle Islands : abundant, from the Bay of Islands, 
J. D. //., to Dusky Bay, Menzies. Lord Auckland’s group, J. D. H. (Tasmania, 
Fuegia.) — A common and very variable plant, G. tenella seems to be a small state of it. 
12. SACCOGYNA, Dumont. 
Stems procumbent and rooting, vaguely branched. Leaves succubous, 
distichous, subhorizontal, entire. Stipules entire or toothed. Fruit lateral. 
Involucre fleshy, pendulous from the under side of the stem, giving off radi- 
cles, cylindric. Perianth 0. Calyptra adnate with the involucre, or with the 
apex free. Capsule on a slender fruitstalk ; elaters with 2 spiral fibres. An- 
theridia in the axils of imbricating minute perigonial leaves on proper branches 
rising from the axils of the stipules. 
This and a single European species, with the habit of Lophocolea, are the only known 
species. 
1. S. australis, Mitten in FI. N. Z. ii. 145. t. 100./. 1. Stems 2-3 
in. long, creeping. Leaves brownish-green or yellowish, distichous, hori- 
zontal, imbricating, obliquely ovate-oblong, 2-toothed at the apex or quite 
entire. Stipules small, 2-toothed, connate with the leaves below them. In- 
volucre oblong, fleshy, with a few rootlets, crowned with a few' small toothed 
leaves. 
Northern Island: forests of Tararua, Colenso. 
13. LEPIDOZIA, Nees. 
Stems creeping, often very minute and slender, throwing out rootlets from 
the ventral surface. Leaves incubous, obscurely distichous, 4-toothed or 4- 
cleft. Stipules present. Fruit terminal (and antheridia) on proper branches 
from the under side of the stem. Involucral leaves numerous, short, broad, 
toothed. Perianth elongate, 3-angled, the faces hollow ; mouth toothed. 
Calyptra membranous. Capsule on slender fruitstalks, globose ; elaters with 
2 spiral fibres. Antheridia solitary in the bases of conduplicate 2-3- cleft 
perigonial leaves. 
