34 102. LYCOPODIUM. § 1. UROSTACHYS. a'. EUSELAGO. 



gradually ascending, the central spreading, linear-subulate, to 9 mm. 

 long, 1 mm. broad at the base, shortly acuminated, entire, involute, 

 the point often red, the lower larger, spreading or decurved, elliptical, 

 not acuminate. 



Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes; Australia, Neic Zealand. 



(13) Li. hippuris, J»e*r., Spring, Mon., I, 44; L. dichotomum, BL, 

 Enum., 71; L. Blumeanum, d. Vr., in Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch., 1844, 338; 

 L. squarrosum, Forst, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 240, p. p. 



Shoots pendulous, or erect with nutant branches, simple or repeatedly 

 dichotomous, 30 — 60 cm. long, I'A — 3 cm. diam. including the leaves. 

 Leaves 8-farious (arranged in alternate spurious whorls of 4), spreading, 

 often thin, the lower often deflexed, the higher gradually ascending, 

 subulate-lanceolate, straight or subfalcate, about 10 — 20 mm. long, TA mm. 

 broad above the base, acute, entire, the edge often subrevolute towards 

 the apex when dry, the costa hidden or obscurely prominent beneath and 

 sulculate above, the base decurrent, the decurrent portion flat or provided 

 with a few slightly prominent crest-like longitudinal rumples. Sporophylla 

 similar in shape to the barren leaves, as long as these or the higher 

 growing gradually smaller. 



Java and tJie Philippines to Samoa. 



(14) li. caudirolium, v. a. «. JC., Bull. Btz., 1911, I, 14. 

 Shoots pendulous, to 60 cm. or more long, simple or once forked, 



the lower part 2Vj— 5 cm. diam. including the leaves, the upper part 

 passing very gradually into the fertile spikes. Leaves erecto-patent, 

 moderately close, 4 — 6-farious, firm but not rigid, about 2'/s — 5 cm. long, 

 with a distinct midrib, the lower part lanceolate-ovate, narrowed very 

 gradually into the caudate-acuminate, filiform-subulate upper part, the 

 base rounded, 4 — 6 mm. broad, the margin entire, involute but more 

 conspicuously in the upper part. Spikes Vii — 3 cm. diam. including 

 the sporophylla; sporophylla similar to the barren leaves but smaller, 

 IVs — 3 cm. long, 3 — 5 mm. broad at the base. 

 Borneo^ 



a. iielag;o. 2. Subtelago. 



f. Leaves to 15 mm. long; spikes to 5 mm. diam. 



». Leaves 4-farious. (15) L. tetrastichum. 



