Neomeris stipitata M.Howe

3- Neomeris stipitata sp. nov.

Neomeris dumetosa Church, Ann. Bot. 9 : 581-608. pi. 21—23.
1895. Not Neomeris dumetosa Lamour. Hist. Polyp. 243.pi. 7.
f. 8. 1816.

Plants cespitose or gregarious, elongate-clavate, lightly calci-
fied, 26-40 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm- thick, mostly 13-20 times as
long as thick, subacute at apex : successive whorls of primary
branches about 300-500 in number, 90-120 n apart in median
regions ; number of branches in a whorl in later stages usually
16-32 : hairs all of one form, persistent in the apical fourth to
sixth and making a rather conspicuous coma : ends of branches

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3. NEOMERIS STIPITATA M.X Howe

3. Neomeris stipitata.
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of the second order in the mature stage forming a cortex with
irregularly hexagonal facets in mostly very irregular transverse
rows or often without recognizable order, each pair of corticating
branches lying in a transverse or somewhat oblique plane, the
corticating branches occasionally in threes, cortex rather pliable,
commonly persistent in the upper half, plants of a younger
stage often somewhat extensively corticated by inflations of the
primary branches : branches of the first order in adult fertile parts
240-410 ¡i long, 32-42 n in diameter in their basal and median
parts, mostly 6-10 times as long as their median diameter, lightly
calcified, free, persistent, the main axis commonly clothed for a
space of 10-15 mm- *n the lower sterile half by clavate 2-scarred
long-persistent scarcely calcified primary branches 150-240 ¡1
long : branches of the second order mostly in pairs but now and
then in threes, capitate, the terminal inflations 116-215 I1 ¡n great-
est diameter, outwardly mammiform, subconical, domed, or merely
arcuate, their walls firm, the pedicels uncalcified, the terminal in-
flations lightly or moderately calcified proximally, their outer sur-
faces uncalcified : sporangia rather strongly calcified, mutually free,
first appearing at about 15 mm. from base of the mature plant,
185-210/i long (decalcified and including stalk), the calcareous
capsules 11—28 // thick ; spores subglobose or slightly obovoid,
142-172 n x 132-144 ji. [Plate i, figure 3 ; plate 5, figures
15, 16.]

Neomeris stipitata was collected at Singapore by Mr. H. N.
Ridley or one of his assistants and was described and figured with
much thoroughness and detail by Dr. Arthur H. Church of Jesus
College, Oxford, in the Annals of Botany in 1895, as quoted
above. Type material of the species is preserved in the herbarium
, * o ; • of the New York Botanical Garden and in the botanical depart-
ment of the museum of Oxford University.

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15.	A primary branch of adult fertile condition, bearing t\\;o secondary (corticat-
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16.	One of the not uncommon primary branches that bear three secondary (corti-
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