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sometimes are erecto-patent on every side, when the plant 

 approaches L. 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. Til. p. 177. (non Hamilt. in Don^ 

 Prod. Fl. Nep. nee Wall. Cat. n. 134.) 



Hab. Mauritius. Palisot de Beauvois. — This species, ac- 

 cording to Pal. de Beauvois, its original describer (under 

 the name oi Lepidotis ohtusifolia), 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. 



Hab. Peru. Humboldt. Trinidad. Mr. Parker. Dominica. 

 Dr. Kraus. 



61. L. nummularifolium. Blume, Enum,. PI. Jav. p. 263. — 

 L. rotundifolium. Herb. Roxb. in Wall. Cat. n. 2183. Hook, 

 et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 212. 



Hab. Java. Dr. Blume. East Indies. Roxburgh. 



62. L. longifolium. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 177. 



Hab. Islands of Bourbon and Mauritius. Swartz. — Ex- 

 cept in the radicating termination of the spikes, the quaternate 

 leaves and their decurrent bases, this species scarcely seems, 

 by the description, to be distinct from L. Phlegmaria. 



63. L. phlegmarioides. Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy.Bot. v. I. p. 281. 

 t. 23. 



Hab. Rawak, in the Molucca Islands, on the trunks of 



