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long, 4 5 mm. diam., rarely solitary, mostly 2 or more (even to 15) on 

 a long, branched, common peduncle provided with distant, erect or 

 somewhat spreading, lanceolate-subulate, minutely denticulate bracts; 

 sporophylla broadly ovate, imbricate, eroso-fimbriate, with the apex scariose- 

 acuminate or hair-pointed. - - Very variable, with forms between which 

 it is difficult to draw the precise limit. 



Forma typica: Secondary branches rather crowded, erect or suberect; 

 leaves entire or those of the main stem obsoletely denticulate, those of 

 the ultimate branchlets erect or suberect, straight or somewhat incurved, 

 crowded. - - Cosmopolitan in the temperate zones and in the cool alpine 

 regions of the tropics. 



War. clivaricatiiiii: Like the type but the secondary branches 

 and the leaves more divaricating or spreading, more loose. -- Java, 

 Philippines; Br. India. 



War. tamariscispica: Secondary branches rather divaricating; 

 leaves of the main stem distinctly denticulate, those of the ultimate 

 branchlets entire, relatively short and thick, conspicuously incurved. - 

 New Guinea. 



a. LepidotiS. 4. Cternuce. 



j-. Tree-like shoots erect; spikes simple. 



* Spikes relatively slender, 2 3 mm. diam. (42) L. cernuum. 



* Spikes relatively stout, 3 1 /* 5 mm. diam. (43) L. curvatum. 



fr.f . Tree-like shoots scandent, or the spikes compound. (44) L. cassuarinoides. 



(42) E<. cernuum. I*., Spring, Mon., I, 79; Rac., Flor. Btz., I, 

 243 ; - - var. capillaceum, Spring, 1. c., 80 ; var. laocum, Bl., Enum., 266 ; 

 L. marianum, Desv., H.M.P.; L. capillaceum, Willd., MS.; var. salakense ; 

 L. salakense, Treub, Rac., 1. c., 242; var. crassifolium, Spring, 1. c. ; 

 var. marianum, Bk., Fern All., 23; L. marianum, Willd., MS. ; L. curvatum, 

 Bl. (not Siv.), 1. c.; L. ericinum, Ces., Fel. Becc. Polin., 9; var. pendulum, 

 Bk., 1. c. ; L. pendulum, Hk., Icon. PI., I, tab. XC; L. pendulinum, Pritz., 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I 4 , 602. 



