94  ACROCARPI, EPISTOMI. LYELLIA. 
Polytricho Polláque singulis annis e flore continuato 
prolifero, folis lineari-lanceolatis serrulatis nervo la- 
` melloso ut in Catharineà, areolis angustissimis paral- 
lelogrammis. Theca‘ irregularis Buüxbaumiae basi fo- 
1..Lyellia crispa (Garow. Brows.) caule erecto longissimo 
simplici, foliis e basi latà vaginante lineari - lanceolatis 
serralis tortilibus, thecae erectiusculae plano-convexae oper- 
culo rostráto. T. 
L. crispa, Brows. in "Trans. Soc. Linn. Lond. XII. P. Il. 
p.562. Hoog, Musc, Exot. II. pL. t. CLXI. SCHWAEGR. Suppl. 
II. p. 17o. t. CXLIX. Green. Nom. Crypt. p. 983. ` 
Germ. Krauser "rommelknopf. GALL. Porte - bouton 
erépu. i 
In regione Nepal Indiae orientalis, ubi D. GARDNER 
in vicinio oppidi Kethmandu detexit, caespitose ad ter- 
ram vivit, D, NarnawAEL Warricu cum Daxwxsio commu- 
nicavit, 
Caulis basi.radiculis fuscis tomentosus. Caulis tres ad 
sex pollices imo palmam metiens, simplicissimus , flexuoso- 
erectus, prope basin nudiusculus, superne valde foliosus, 
Folia undique vergentia, e basi latà, ovatà membranacea 
vaginante lineari-subulata, rigida, subcarinata, argute ser- 
u 
'tortilia, fusco - viridia, minute lineari areolata, Perichae- 
Gala subsimilia. Pedunculus e vaginulà tereti terminalis, 
