404 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
ecllulis angustioribus viridibus formatis. Fructus ex apice rami proprii e centro fasciculorum 
oriundus. Theca sessilis, globosa, demum in prolongatione rami fertilis peduneuliformi exserta, 
opereulo convexo; calyptra tenuissima, medio transversim rupta parte infericre vaginula ad- 
heerente obvelata. Flores masculi antheridiis globosis pedicellatis in axillis foliorum, ad apices 
ramorum amentiformes congesti. Genus unicum :— 
XXVIJ. Sphagnum, Dill. Caulis erectus, fastigiato-ramosus, ramis flagelliformibus. Folia 
caulina pentasticha, ramulina diversiformia densius texta, omnia ecostata. Fructus e ramulis orinun- 
dus. Theca globosa, solida, operculo hemisphzerico, annulo peristomioque destituta. 
8. acutifolium, Ebrh., has been found at St. Paul’s Island, on the summit of the mountain (Milne! n. 
22). 
1, S. cuspidatum, Ehrh.; caulis plus minus elongatus, fasciculis ramorum remotiusculis, cor- 
tice distincto nullo; folia caulina ovata acuta, limbo indistineto, ramea imbricata ovato-laneeolata 
limbo lato marginata, cellulis majoribus fibro repletis; folia in ramo fertili oblonga ovaliave, cellulis 
majoribus inanibus.— Viti (Seemann! n, 839). 
This species is easily recognized from most of its congeners by the absence of any distinet pellucida 
cortical cells. The Vitian specimens are without fruit, but have all the appearances of being precisely the 
same as European. 
Orpo CIX. JUNGERMANNIA. 
(AucrorE W. Mirren.) 
The following genera have not as yet been found in Viti, viz. :— 
1. Conoscyruus, Mitt. gen. nov. Caulis procumbens ascendensve, ramosus. Folia sursum secunda, 
integra paucidentatave. Amphigastria magna, Perianthinam proprium nullum, e foliis involucralibus in 
conum convolutis apiece dentibus paucis inflexis formatum. 
1. C. inflewifolius, (sp. n.) Mitt.; caulis procumbens, elongatus, parum divisus; folia antice inflexa, 
subovata, obtusa, margine dorsali sinuata integerrima, ventrali convexa, caulem versus bidentata, amphi- 
gastria magna rotunda, apice bidentata, lateribus tridenticulatis ; folia involueralia teretiuseule imbricata.— 
Samoa, inter cwspites Syrrhopodontis crocei, Sendtnera juniperineque, sparsim erescens (Powell !).—Rami 2 
uncias longi, cum foliis lineam lati, Folia castaneo-fusca, imbricata.—Similar in habit, eolour, and appear- 
ance to Lophocolea devera, Mitt. Journ. of the Linn. Soe. vol. vii. p. 165, and to the Chiloscyphus trapezoides 
and O, Tyiwideensis, Van der Sande Lacoste, Hep. Jayan, t. 7, all probably belong to the same genus. 
The Samoan specimens have the inner involucral leaves convolute, so as to form a flask-like perianth, but 
they do not appear to be anywhere combined with each other or with the stipule; at their bases they are 
adherent to the lower part of the calyptra. In C. devexus the involucral leaves are arranged in a similar 
manner; but as only young states of the fructification were present, it was supposed that the species was 
allied to some austral South American species of Lophocolea, as L. Gayana (Ohiloscyphus), Mont., the 
fructification being evidently terminal, but supposed to be incomplete. The occurreuce, however, of the 
same kind of involuere with young capsules leaves no doubt but that a true and tubular perianth is want- 
ing in both the African and Samoan species. The place of this genus is somewhat obscure. In habit, and 
in the substance of its leaves and its conspicuous stipules, it corresponds most nearly with some species of 
Lophocolea and of Leioseyphus. 
II. Lornocotza, Nees ab E.; Gottsche, Lindenb, et Nees Syn, Hepat. p. 151. 
1. L. Gaudichaudi, Mont. Voy. de la Bonite, Bot. Crypt. t. 148. f, 4.—Sandwich Islands (Gaudi- 
chaud, Hillebrand !). 
2. L. Beecheyana, Tayl. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1846, p. 365.—Hawaii (Beechey !). 
3. L. eaplanata (sp. noy.), Mitt.; caulis repens, ramosus ; folia explanata, convexa, ovata, apice sinu parvo 
excisa, basi cum amphigastrio parvo bifido, segmentis extus unidentatis, anguste coalita vel libera, involu- 
eralia ovalia, margine ubique ciliata ; perianthium angulis alatum, ala anteriore latiore, lateralibus labiisque 
dentato-ciliatis.—Samoa (Powell !).—Caulis unciam longus, cum foliis lineam latus. Folia pallida, tenera, 
4. L. rectangulata (sp. noy.), Mitt.; caulis procumbens, elongatus; folia explanata, plana, oblonga, sub- 
rectangulata, apice abrupta bidentata, margine ventrali cum amphigastrio tridentato, laciniis utroque uni- 

