80  STEGOCARPI. PLEUROCARPI.  NECKERA. 
Patria. Guiana: Leprieur. 
E distinctissimis. 
Sectio IV. Leptohymenium auct. non Schw. Plantae plèu- 
rocarpicae filiformes tenerae, ramis tenuibus, nec julaceis, mec 
compressis, sparsifoliis, vage ramosae. Folia. ovata acuminata 
concava, e cellulis linearibus composita. "Theca exserta, 
Patria. Per totum orbem terrarum. 
a. Folia uninervia. 
a. Theca globosa, 
72. N. procumbens C. Müll; dioica, latissime ce- 
spitosa procumbens v. prostrata sordide lutescens; caulis 
longiusculus pluries in ramos. longiores breviter pinnate 
ramulosos divisus, plumose foliosus, tenuiusculus rigi- 
diusculus, ramulis. siccitate curvatis; folia caulina con- 
ferta, humore erecto-patentia , late lanceolata longiuscule 
acuminata, carinato-concava, margine usque fere ad 
apicem revoluto, apice denticulato, nervo. valido excur- 
rente, flavido-viridi, cellulis minutis oblongis subconfla- 
tis tenerrime punctulatis lutescentibus, alaribus multis 
minutis rotundatis; perich. angustius lanceolata longius 
tenuius acuminata, integerrima , margine erecto, nervo 
excurrente sensim dissoluto tenuiusculo, cellulis ubique 
elongatis angustis pellucidis laevibus; theca in ped. vix 
exserío scabro turgide globosa fusca, annulo operculo 
adhaerente, operc. conico oblique acute acuminato conco- 
lori; perist. d. ext. latiuscule lanceolato- aeuminati con- 
niventes albidi dense trabeculati, linea longitudinali exa- 
rati, inferne laeves, superne intus trabeculis maxime ap- 
pendiculato - prominentibus; i^f. breviores albidi capilla- 
res fugacissimi ; ealyptra glabra, apice scaberula dimi- 
diata. 
Pätria. Pone Bombay Indiae orientalis lectum co- 
piosissime comm. Kegel ex horto Dom. Van Houtte. 
Species excellentissima atque pulchella, N. Sieboldi 
proxima, caracteribus tamen explicatis longe refugiens. 
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