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rotundate-truncate. Sporophylla Vj as long, subulate, when young adpressed, 

 forming a single spike 4 mm. diam. — Readily distinguished from L. 

 squarrosum Forst. by its relatively shorter and broader leaves. 

 New Guinea. 



(24) li. gquarrosuni, Forst., Spring, Mon., I, 52; Rac, Flor. 

 Btz., I, 240, p. p.; Pritz., in Engl. & Prantl., Nat. Pfl.Fam., P, fig. 376. 



Shoots pendulous, or erect v^ith nutant branches, 1 — 8 times dichoto- 

 mously branched, about 80—100 cm. long, 2—3 cm. diam. including the 

 leaves. Leaves firm, not rarely rigidly coriaceous, lanceolate-subulate and 

 often more or less falcate, about 10—20 mm. long, 1—2 mm. broad above 

 the base, acute, entire, the edge not or obscurely revolute, the base 

 rotundate-cuneate, decurrent, the decurrent portion flat or longitudinally 

 rugulose when dry. Spikes elongated, not rarely to 80 cm. long, simple 

 or dichotomous; sporophylla subulate, dilated at the base. — Very 

 variable. — Two ultimate forms united by intermediates between which 

 it is impossible to draw the limit. 



Forma typica : Spikes moderately suddenly contracted from the higher 

 barren region, string- or cord-shaped, 5 mm. diam. ; sporophylla erect, 

 subadpressed, 4 — 6 mm. long, the lower passing somewhat gradually 

 into the higher barren leaves. 



Forma hippuroides: Spikes not contracted, resembling in shape the 

 higher barren region, though somewhat narrowed towards the apex; 

 sporophylla subspreading. — The figure quoted above is this form, which, 

 like the intermediates, is often confounded with L. hippuris Desv. 



Tropical Africa and Asia to Polynesia. 



(25) Vi. Magnnsianuni, Mer*., Hedwi., XLIX, 91. 



Shoots erect or subflexuose, twice or thrice forked, rigid, about 80 — 40 

 cm. long, the lower part 10 — 15 mm. diam. including the leaves. 

 Leaves crowded, multifarious, spreading, incurved or decurved, lanceolate, 

 10 — 12 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, long.acute, entire, glossy, rigid but 

 not thick, not keeled. Spikes 8 mm. diam.; sporophylla crowded, 

 erecto-patent, 6 — 10 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, nearly keeled. — A plant 

 gathered in Java by Raciborski, determined as L. squarrosum Forst., 

 differs from this only in having the shoots broader, the leaves longer, and 

 the barren region narrowed somewhat more gradually into the fertile spikes. 



Mindanao, Java (?). 



