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cnlus, firagUIs, crassitie filum emporeticum ex- 

 cedens, subinaequaliter 2 — S-dichotome divi- 

 sos; diinsiofdbtts recuvv nils assurgentibusque : 

 „caale declinato-assorgente" (Swartz)- 

 Folia verticillata, quaterna, quaternis inferioribus 

 interposita indeqne octofaria, approxiinata, 

 simpliciter patentia, non colorata, semipolli- 

 caria, elongato- et lineari-subulata, supra coii- 

 vexiuscula, subtus sulcata, iiervo in suleo con- 

 spicuo ad insertioneiA glbbosam prominente, 

 lineari-decurrentia. Sporocarpia suborbiculari- 

 reniformia, blioba, albida, magnitudine seminis 

 Sinapeos. 



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Hab. in India occidental!: Swartz; in Pern- 

 via : Hsenke, Poppig. Ex arboribus pendulum.^* 

 (Herb. Willd. N. 19,413.) 



Ausser den sehr langen Blattern hat diese Art 

 nichts , was sie mit dem L. mandloccanum Raddl 

 (ill. bras- tab. 4.) verwechseln lassen kiinnte. 



Snbsp. % L. moUicomum (Mart, in Herb.) : ramis 

 coarctato-erectis, foHis brevioribus, erecto- 

 patentibns, linearl-acuminatis, marginibus sub 

 lente composita sparsiin denticulatis , sporo- 

 carpiis compresso-suborbicularibus, ultra me- 

 dium bilobis. — Hab. in Brasilia. 



Subsp. 3. L. pulcherrimum (Wall. Cat. Nr. 115- 

 Hook. ^ Grev. Icon. fil. tab. 38.):ranii» 

 coarctato-erectis, foliis qnidquam majoribus, 

 erecto-patentibus, linearibus, aciUuisculis, i»- 



