44 102. LYCOPODIUM. 1. UROSTACHYS. b'. EUPHLEGMARIA. 



(35) Ei. coralluin, Spring, PL Jungh., 273; L. pinifolium, Bl., 

 Rac., Flor. Btz., I, 241, p. p. ; var. minutifolium. 



Shoots pendulous, to 30 60 cm. or more long, two or more times 

 dichotomously branched. Leaves moderately close, 6 8-farious, suberect 

 or erecto-patent, sessile or subpetiolate, firm, elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, 

 about 8 16 mm. long and 2Va 4 mm. broad, acute, entire, rounded or 

 narrowed at the base, with a distinct midrib. Spikes slender, moniliform, 

 flexuose, 510 cm. long, once to thrice forked, the ultimate branchlets 

 1 2 mm. diam. ; sporophylla rigid, ovate, to 2 mm. long, apiculate, 

 keeled. Hardly more than 'a variety of L. phlegmaria L. 



War. iiiiiiutifoliuiii: Leaves similar but much smaller, and the 

 sporophylla rather longer apiculate. 



Malaya to Polynesia. 



(36) E<. phlegmaria. J/., Spring, Mon., I, 63; Rac., Flor. Btz., I, 

 241; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I 4 , fig. 377; var. brachystachyum, 

 Rst., Fed., Rep., XII, 530; var. laxum, Bl., Enum., 262; Spring, 1. c., 

 65; - - var. longifolium, Spring, 1. c., 65; L. mirabile, Willd., Spec., V, 

 11; - - var. filiforme; var. rigidum, Bl., 1. c. ; var. furcatum, Spring, in 

 PI. Jungh., 272; L. filiforme, Rb., Rac., 1. c. ; var. ovatum; var. parvi- 

 folium, Spring, Mon., I, 65 ; var. pettuddum & gracilescens, Bl., 1. c. ; - 

 var. latifolium. 



Shoots pendulous, 15 60 cm. long, dichotomously branched. Leaves 

 moderately approximate or loose, 6 8-farious, rather horizontal, subpetio- 

 lulate, triangular to lanceolate, 4 20 mm. long, 2V 2 6 mm. broad, acute, 

 entire, with a distinct midrib. Spikes often numerous, mostly repeatedly 

 forked, the ultimate branchlets slender, 1 2 mm. diam.; sporophylla 

 lax or crowded, short or elongated, roundish-triangular to ovate-lanceolate. 

 Very variable, with the leaves varying from close to loose, broad to 

 narrow, flaccid to rigid, thin to thick. The type and the varieties are passing 

 into each other by forms which are often very difficult of determination. 



Forma typica: Leaves rather triangular, about 9 mm. or more long, 

 relatively (often more than 4 mm.) broad, cordate or subcordate-truncate at 

 the base; stem mostly robust (rope-like) in the lower part; spikes not short. 



Var. hrachystachyum : Spikes very short, at best 1Y 2 cm, 

 long, 3 4-furcate. 



War. laxum: Leaves lanceolate, about 9 mm. or more long, 

 relatively narrow, cuneate or rotundate-cuneate at the base. 



