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2. Neomeris van Bosseae sp. nov.

Neomeris dumetosa Sonder, Alg. trop. Austral. 36. pi. 5./. 8—13.

1871.—J. Ag. Till. Alg. Syst. 5: 147-151. pi. 2. f. 4-7.

1887. — Cramer, Neue Denkschr. Schweiz. Naturf. Ges. 32:

— (19-21). pi. i.f. 13 ; pi. 2. f. 7. 8. 1890. — Solms, Ann.

Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 11 : pi. 8. f. it. 1893. Not Neomeris
dumetosa Lamour. Hist. Polyp. 243.pi. J.f. 8. 1816.

Plants gregarious or scattered, clavate, subcylindrical, or some-
what fusiform, 15—35 mm. long, 2—3.5 mm. thick, mostly 6—12
times as long as thick, often curved near the middle or toward the
rounded-obtuse or subacute apex : successive whorls of primary
branches about 290—350 in number, 50-80 [J. apart in basal and
median regions, 150-170 ¡x toward apex; number of branches in
a whorl usually 32—44 : hairs all of one form, persistent in a mod-
erately conspicuous apical tuft : ends of the branches of the second
order in the mature stage forming a cortex with the hexagonal
facets in regular or irregular rows, each pair of corticating branches
commonly lying in a transverse plane, the number of transverse
rows of facets equaling, in consequence, the number of primary
whorls, and the number of facets in a row being twice that of the