NECKERACEAE. 261 
Ed. ii, p. 353) for Hampe’s name, viz. 1862, it is rather vital to note, 
is an error; it should be 1852. 
This species, too, is common in New Zealand. 
5. Papillaria flavo-limbata (C. M. & Hampe) Jaeg. Adumbr. ii, 171. 
Syn. Neckera flavo-limbata C.M. & Hampe in Linn. xxvi, 502 
(1853). Trachypus cerinus Mitt. in ney Linn. Soce., Bot., 
H by 
iv, 91 (1859). Meteortum cerinum H. f. ay 
ii, 203. Meteorium cuspidiferum var. cerinum Hook. f., 
Handb. N.Z. Fl., p. 459. 
This is the most ae of the New Zealand species, i ag at 
times it may be quite slender, and is frequently provided with abun- 
dant, long, filiform, flagellate branches; it is often of a rich orange 
yellow. That the size or habit is not’ more than a question of tem- 
and turgid, and gradually passing oF eo the other side—into an 
extremely attenuated form like P. filipendula. 
The turgidity of the branches is peso ed by the exceedingly close 
phyllotaxy, while the leaves, though extremely numerous, are not by 
any means closely imbricated, Bo rather rigidly spaced and set apart 
from one another. The nerve is prominent at the back as in P. cro- 
cea, and occasionally slender fase are not easy to separate from 
that, but nearly always the habit is very distinct, the leaves being 
decidedly undulate and flexuose, with the margins often recurved 
and waved, so that the back of the leaf is not at all markedly convex. 
The pale (or yellow ish) border to the leaf is also much more strongly 
marked than in the other species. The upper cells are of much the 
Mr. G. O. K. Sa abs OR pointed out to me a remarkable fea- 
ture of a plant gathered by him in Wairoa Co., Hawkes Bay, which 
hair-points, as a good many allied species. The extreme apex of 
most of these Fo eeciee however, in D. flavo-limbata, is curiously 
ache ype or forked, ending in two (or three) very short branches, 
which a sually more or less at right-angles to the shaft, or some- 
times slightly recurved, remi nding one somewhat of the barbed apices 
of the leaves of Antitrichia cur tipendula. (Plate X, fig. 7 
It is confined to Australasia, and is common in both Talend 
6. Aascome nitidiuscula Broth. MS. in sched., sp. nov. (Plate X, 
6.) 
nares soedide vel flavo-viridis, subnitens. Rami secondari 
dimorphi, alteri serotini corticoli perbreves, robustiuseuli, densifolii ; 
sete ri (plurimi) penduli, usque ad 20 em. longi, pergr. eraciles, flexuosi, 
lax nnatim ramulosi, ramulis circa 1 em. longis, saepe atten- 
i od ramea atque ramulina subsimilia, e basi latissime valde 
