86 102. LYCOPODroM. § 1. urostachys, a''', subselago. 



long, cylindrical or 4 — 8-angular, 2V2— 3 mm. diam. ; sporophylla ovate, 

 about Vj as long as the leaves, relatively broad, subacuminate or apiculate, 

 rigid, keeled. — Related to L. tetrastichum Kze and L. carinatum Besv. 

 but positively distinct. 



Br. India to Polynesia and Queensland. . 



(17) lj. g;unturenfiie, r. a. «. n., Bull. Btz., 19J1, I, 14. 



Like L. laxum Spring, but the shoots 10 mm. diam. near the 

 base, the branchlets 5 mm. diam. including the leaves, the leaves not 

 canaliculate, flattened, the largest 1 mm. broad, keeled near the base 

 only, the lov?er spreading, the higher ascending. 



Java. 



(18) Wj. carinatum, nes«.. Spring, Mon., I, 59; Rac, Flor. Btz., 

 I, 239, p. p.; L. flagellaria, Bory, in Freyc, Voy. Ur. Phys., Bot., I, tab. 

 XXVi; L. acrostachyum, Wall, Hk. & Grev., Ic. Fil., tab. CLXXXI. 



Shoots pendulous, 20 — 80 cm. long, 2 — 3 times dichotomous, the 

 branches 7 — 15 mm. diam. including the leaves. Leaves 6 — 8-farious, 

 ascending, moderately close, lanceolate-subulate, 10 — 15 mm. long, 1 — VU 

 mm. broad, acute, firm, not rigid, entire, decurrent, distinctly costate 

 or keeled, flat to conduplicate. Spikes long, 2 'A mm. or more diam.; 

 sporophylla ovate, acuminate, rigid, rather adpressed, about 'A as long 

 as, and broader than, the barren leaves, sharply keeled. — Variable. 



Trap. Asia to Polynesia. 



(19) Ir. prolifernm, JM., Spring, Mon., I, 34; L. squarrosum, 

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



Shoots pendulous, once or twice dichotomously branched, 15 — 45 cm. 

 long, 2V2 cm. diam. including the leaves. Leaves ascending, crowded, 

 6-farious (arranged in alternate spurious whorls of 3), thin or weak, 

 linear-lanceolate, 10 — 15 mm. long, acute, entire, subrevolute at the 

 edge, the costa obscurely prominent above or beneath, grooved on the 

 other side, the base decurrent, the decurrent portion provided with a 

 slender keel-like crest, the higher leaves growing gradually shorter; sporo- 

 phylla about '/2 as long as the barren leaves, similar to the barren leaves 

 (conf. Spring), or ovate-lanceolate (conf. Blume). — Specimens received on 

 loan from the Leiden Herbarium, gathered in Java (by Blume), have the 

 shoots to 80 cm. long, the leaves V/i — 2 mm. broad at the base, the 



