102. LYCOPODIUM. § 1. UROSTAOHYS. a'. EUSELAGO. 31 



Forma subintegerrima : Leaves serrated at the apex only, for the 

 rest entire or obsoletely repand. 



Japan, China, North India, Trop. Asia, Polynesia, Sandwich Islands, 

 Trop. America. 



(2) Mj. goliathense, r. a. ». r., Bull. Btz., 1912, YII, 29. 

 Shoots erect, usually 2 — 3 times forked, 20 cm. long, 5 — 10 mm. 



diam. including the leaves, the stem opaque, wiry, the branches not 

 rarely provided with prolific buds near the apex. Leaves crowded, 

 6 — 8-farious, reflexed, decurrent upon the stem, rigidly aceroso-coriaceous, 

 fragile when dry, glossy, oblanceolate-ligulate, 4 — 7 mm. long and 

 1 — IV4 mm. broad, acute or very minutely apiculate, very minutely 

 serrulate, entire and somewhat narrowed towards the base, the midrib 

 hidden. Sporangia in the axils of unaltered leaves all down the 

 branches. 



New Guinea. 



(3) Ij. Beecarii, r. a. «. K., Bull. Btz., 1912, VII, 29; L. minia- 

 tum, Bk. (not Spring), Journ. of Bot., XVIII, 217. 



Shoots erect, forked, to 30 cm. or more long, I'A— PA cm. diam. 

 including the leaves, provided with prolific buds near the apex. Leaves 

 moderately dense, 6 — 8-farious, decurrent, horizontal, at best the lower 

 reflexed, the higher more ascending, rigidly coriaceous, oblanceolate-ligulate, 

 about 5 — 8 mm. long and IV2 — 2 mm. broad, acute or minutely apiculate, 

 suberoso-denticulate, entire and narrowed towards the base, the midrib 

 rather hidden. Sporangia in the axils of unaltered leaves all down the 

 stem or branches. 



Sumatra. 



(4) El. mintatum, Spring, Mon., I, 28; Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 237; 

 L. rigidum, Bl., Enum., 271. 



Shoots erect, simple or dichotomous, 20—50 cm. long, I'A cm. 

 diam. including the leaves, often bearing prolific buds, the stem varying 

 from green to bright-red. Leaves moderately dense but less so in the 

 lower part, 6— 8-farious, green or red, cartilagineous, reflexed or the 

 higher more spreading, hnear-lanceolate, about 6—9 mm. long, IV2 mm. 

 broad and decurrent at the base, narrowed gradually to the acute or 

 minutely mucronate apex, the edge entire, or obsoletely to very minutely 



