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sometimes are erecto-patent on every side, when the plant 
approaches Z; gnidioides; but more generally they are 
horizontally patent and distichous, rarely reflexed. They are 
also sometimes rigid and opaque, at other times more flaccid 
and semipellucid. "The spikes are generally much elongated, 
twice or thrice dichotomous, slender, divaricated or erect: 
occasionally, as in a specimen from the Island of Ceylon, 
they are short and thick, and nearly simple: in this latter 
instance, too, the scales are as large and as long as the fruit, 
and smooth; whereas, in other specimens, they are shorter 
than the fruit, and wrinkled. 
59. L. obtusifolium. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. Vi'T. (non Hamilt. in Don, 
Prod. Fl. Nep. nec Wall. Cat. n. 134.) 
Has. Mauritius. Palisot de Beauvois.— This species, ac 
cording to Pal. de Beauvois, its original describer (ander 
the name of Lepidotis obtusifolia), differs from L. Phlegmaria 
only in the decurrent and more obtuse leaves ; the former char- 
acter we find in the lower leaves, on our specimens of the true 
L. Phlegmaria. Blume considers this plant as allied to his 
L. nummularifolium, but remarks that it differs from that 
species in its erect stems and decurrent leaves. 
60. L. heteroclitum. Desv. Enc. Bot. Suppl. v. 3. P- 544. 
Has. Peru. Humboldt. Trinidad. Mr. Parker. Dominica: 
Dr. Kraus. 
61. L. nummularifolium, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. P- 263.— 
L. rotundifolium. Herb. Romb. in Wall. Cat. n. 2183. Hook 
et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 212. 
Has. Java. Dr. Blume. East Indies. Rowburgh. 
62. L. longifolium. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 177. 
Has. Islands of Bourbon and Mauritius. Swartz— b 
cept in the radicating termination of the spikes, the quater? 
leaves and their decurrent bases, this species scarcely 
by the description, to be distinct from L. Phiegmaria. 
63. L. phlegmarioides, Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. v. l.p. 
t. 23. 
Has. Rawak, in the Molucca Islands, on the trunks 
28 k 
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