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WOLLASTOX EXPEDITION TO DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 



507 



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considorable justific:ilion. The alar cells, largo and deeply coloured^ but in 

 several rows upward, and not vesicular, soeni to indicate Uie present ^enu; 

 rather thjui SematophyUton, 



EcTROPOTHEClUM LATicusPES^ Broth., in OEv. Finska Vet.-Soc* Forh. xl. 



18(>. 



(No. 37.) From tlie description of the species T have no douhtthis is a not 



very 



well-urown 



state of it. The stem-leaves are widely triangular, with 

 ratlier short and broad falcate acumen ; the alar cells very few and 

 inconspicuous, 



EcTROrOTIlECIUM LONGICOLLUM, Broth, Si Geh.j op, cit. 184. 



(No, 41.) Except in the somewhat laxer branching, this agrees well wdili 

 the specimen of the above at Kew. 



Taxithelium substigmosum (0. Muell.)^ Broth, in Engler & Prantlj 

 Pflanzenfam., T. i. Abt, 3. ii. 1092. 

 (No. 33.) 



Trichosteleum hamatum (Dozy & Molk.), Jaeg. Adumbr, ii. 48r>. 



(No. 45^) cum setis. The type, not the var. semi'mandUosum (C, MuclL). 



Trichosteleum grosso-mamillosum (C. 



nsisomamillosum. i\ IMuelh, MSS. in litt 



), Par, Ined. [TheUdium 



No. 697.) 



This name is based on a specimen of Loria's "New Guinea orientalis 

 Brit., in monto^is Mo-roka, 1300 m., distr. Moresby, 1893/^ It has not yet 

 been published. The species may be diagnosed as follows : 



Habitu T. hamato similUmum, sed minus, foliorrnn structura longe aliena, 

 cellulis liaud incrassatis^ hi-plnri-pajn/losis, fHXjnllis groi<sht$culis^ celhdis 

 marginalibus l[cvibus ; folia Irevhis acuminata, superne rjrosse^ dense^ argute 

 dentata. 



Trichosteleum SEMATortiYLLOiDEH, Dixon, sp. no v. (PL 29, fig. 10.) 



Habitu specierum nonnullarum Sematophjjlli (e.g. S. e.vtensum, Card*, 



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fii 



Canlis elongatus, 



» -r * 



, Jlexnosus^ 



5~(> cm. lon^nis, puree hreviUr ramosus, apice penicillatus seu cuspidatus, 

 pullide virulis, vix nitidus. Folia laxiuscula, inadida rlgidc pateiida, sicca 

 magis erccta, subflexuosa, vel vix miitatu, circa 1 mm. longa, e basi pauUo 

 constricta ovato-laiiceolata, percoiicava, hreviuscule acute acuminata, eco;<tata, 

 marginibus pl&iii?, ubique denticulatis?^ ucumine argute dentaiis ; collulai 

 lineaies, obtuslasculfie, subsigmoidepe, parietibus tenuibus, dorso Inimillime 

 indistincte pluri-papiilo.^ae, marginaios rcliqius siibslmiies ; infimoe flavte, 

 akribus circa trinis, magnis, vesiciilo,sis, pellucidis. Folia' ramea minora 



