102. LYCOPODrojI. § 1. UROSTACHYS. bl EUPHLEGMARIA. 43. 



but not hiding them. — The young plants have the leaves more equally 

 narrowed tow^ards both ends. 

 Borneo. 



(32) li. nmumularifolliini, ah. Spring, Mon., I, 68; Rac, 

 Flor. Btz., I, 240; Hk. & Grev., Ic. Fil, tab. CCXII; L. rotundifolium, 

 WaU. (not Boxb.), Cat, No. 2183. 



Shoots pendulous, 30—100 cm. long, often 3—4 times dichotomously 

 branched, the stem slender, both stem and branches flattened, 2-lateral 

 (the leaves apparently 2-farious). Leaves lax or approximate, more or 

 less ascending, subpetiolate, suborbicular to broad-oblong, to 9 mm. long, 

 to 7 mm. broad, obtuse at both ends, entire, firm, glossy, v?ith a distinct 

 midrib. Spikes very slender, one or more times dichotomous, the branchlots 

 to 2 mm. diam. ; sporophylla moderately dense, ascending, rather deltoid, 

 very small, not much exceeding the sporangia. 



Malaya across Papua to the New Hebrides. 



(33) li. phlegmarioides, Gaud., in Freyc, Voy. Ur. Phys., Bot., 

 I, tab. 23; Bk., Fern AIL, 20; v. A. v. R., Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 39, fig. b. 



Shoots pendulous, 15—45 cm. long, one or more times dichotomously 

 branched. Leaves lax, ascending, 4-farious, elongate-ovate, 6 — 16 mm. 

 long, about '2 as broad, rather acute, entire, narrovsred and adnate at the 

 base, glossy, rigid, with a distinct midrib, the ventral ones larger than 

 the dorsal. Spikes slender, to 10 cm. long, once or twice forked, the 

 branchlets 1 — IVi mm. diam.; sporophylla broad-ovate, equalling or 

 but little exceeding the sporangia. 



Borneo, Amboina, New Guinea, Aru Islands. 



(34) Vi. |ii»eudo-phleji;inaria, Muhn, Forschr. Gaz., IV, Fame. 

 Shoots suberect, soon pendulous, often thrice forked, to 45 cm. long, 



the stem obtusely quadrangular, 4-sulcate. Leaves glossy, coriaceous, 

 4-farious, ascending, subpetiolate, ovate-lanceolate, equal, 1 — IV2 cm. 

 long and 5 mm. broad, narrowed at both ends, obtuse, entire, decurrent, 

 the midrib grooved above, subprominent beneath. Spikes slender, once 

 or twice forked, moniliform, 4 — 8 cm. long; sporophylla broadly ovate, 

 shortly acuminate, keeled, equalling the sporangia. — Probably a form 

 of the preceding. 



Neio Guinea (?); Samoa, Fiji. 



