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1. M. novæ-zealandiæ, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 737.—A small moss-like densely tufted perfectly glabrous herb, forming rounded patches an inch or two in diameter; branches short, slender, densely compacted. Leaves connate at the base, densely imbricated, $1⁄10$–$1⁄8$ in. long, linear-oblong, suddenly narrowed at the tip into a stout bristle, quite entire, rather coriaceous, concave, nerveless; margins conspicuously thickened. Flowers solitary, terminal, minute, almost concealed by the leaves. Calyx-segments like the leaves. Corolla short and broad; lobes 4, short, obtuse. Stamens 4; filaments very short; anthers broadly obiong, didymous, included. Styles short, free. Capsule oblong, coriaceous, 2-valved at the tip, the valves pointing outwards.

2. M. montana, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 274, t. 88 C, var. Helmsii, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 445, t. 32.—A small perfectly glabrous perennial herb, forming depressed matted patches 1–3 in. diam. Stems slender, 1–2 in. high; branches weak, straggling. Leaves crowded towards the tips of the branches, opposite, ⅛–⅙ in. long, obovate or obovate-oblong, narrowed into short flat petioles or rarely sessile, quite entire, glabrous, rather thick and fleshy, veinless, margins flat. Flowers solitary, terminal, sessile, almost concealed by the leaves. Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments equal, lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube broad; lobes short, acute, not one-half the length of the tube. Anthers nearly sessile on the throat of the corolla, broadly ovate. Ovary ovoid; styles 2, quite free but connivent. Capsule small, compressed, 2-lobed. the outer angles produced into curved beaks.