88 102. LYCOPODIUM. § 1. UEOSTACHYS. a'. SUBSELAGO. 



ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about ' \ as long as the barren leaves or shorter, 

 relatively broad, acuminate. 



Malacca, Lingga Islands, Borneo, New Guinea. 



b. Phle^marla. 1. Phlegmar-iopaU. 



1. Leaves under 4Vi mm. long. (22) L. flagellaceum. 



I.*. Leaves more than 4 'A mm. long. 



9. Sporophylla suberect, siibstibulate, proportionally long and narrow. 

 3. Spikes 4 — 6 mm. diam. 



J. Leaves Tk — 10 mm. long, 2—8 mm. broad. 



(23) L. Lauterbachii. 

 S..A. Leaves 10 — 20 mm. long, or 1 — 2 mm. broad. 



(24) L. squarrosum. 



3.3. Spikes 7 — 9 mm. diam. (25) L. Magnusianum. 



*.*. Sporophylla spreading, subtriangular, proportionally short and broad. 



(26) L. rupicolum. 



(22) It. ffagellaceum, JTuhw, Forschr. Gaz., lY, Fame. 



Shoots pendulous, pale-green, about 16 cm. long, dichotomous towards 

 the base, equally trichotomous towards the apex, the stem copiously 

 grooved in the lower part. Leaves minute, ascending, sessile, thick, the 

 lower 12-farious, linear-lanceolate, 2 — 3 mm. long, acute, entire, slightly 

 narrowed at the base, the higher 6-farious, passing gradually into the 

 sporophylla. Spikes square, dichotomous, to 8 cm. long; sporophylla 

 ovate-lanceolate, about 'A — Va as long as the leaves, keeled. 



New Guinea. 



(28) li. Liautcrliachil, PHtiv., in Schum. & Laut., Flor. deut. 

 Sch.geb., 149. 



Shoots simple or 1 — 2 times dichotomously branched, pendulous, to 

 30 cm. or more long, the branches Vk—V!* cm. diam. including the 

 leaves. Leaves crowded, 6 — 8-farious, horizontally spreading, rigid, ovate- 

 subulate, 7V2 — 10 mm. long, 2 — 3 mm. broad near the base, entire, 

 acute, the edge somewhat re volute, the base rounded or rather abruptly 



