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gemmulä brevissima seeunda obtusatis pinnatus; folia 
eaulina surculos et ramulos angustos sistenlia, vesiculoso- 
turgida parum secunda madore laxius imbrieata firmiu- 
scula splendentia vix undulata turgescenti-complanata 
brevia lata majuscula oblonga-ligulata obtusissima vel 
acumine obtusato brevissimo coronata apice paulisper 
introrsum curvata integerrima vel apicem versus obsole- 
tissime dentieulata lato-coneava pro more lacunoso-undu- 
lata, margine ubique erecta, nervis binis brevibus saepius 
obsoletis, cellulis subelliptieis basin versus angustis linea- 
ribus; perich. pauca in cylindrum laxum brevem convo-: 
luta, e basi longiuseula laxe anguste reticulata enervi 
vaginata breviter obtusiuscule acuminata anguste lineari- 
areolata; theca in pedunculo brevi flavido dein fusco 
exserta erecta turgide elliptiea majuscula exannulata oli- 
vacea, deoperculata ovalis submacrostoma fusca, operculo 
conico in rostrum acutum obliquum producto, calyptra 
glabra; peristomium robustum pallidum: dentes ext. e 
basi latiore dilute lutea tenuius trabeculata in subulam 
elongatam byalinam incrassate trabeculatam glabram pro- 
tracti, int. breviores in membrana brevi hyalina elongati 
angustissimi, latere genieulato -Hexuosi, plus minus appen- 
dieulati hyalini glaberrimi, lines longitudinali fissiles 
Patria, Argentinia subtropiea, montibus inter Siam- 
bon et Taf, Martio—Aug. 1872. 
Inter omnes congeneres solum Neckerae obtusifohae 
Tayl. Quitensi et N. excarpee Schpr. Bolivianae ob folia 
vesiculoso-turgida lacunosa nec transversim undulata si- 
millima, a priore theca exserta, ab ulteriore foliis ligulato- 
obtusis nec ligulatu-acuminatis certe distineta. — Axis 
paraphyliiis elongatis filiformibus vel latioribus areolatis 
aggregatis in vieinia foliorum oblatus. 
