APPENDIX. 102. LYCOPODIUM. 531 



(33) Ij. phlegmarioides, Gaud. 



A plant gathered in Pulo Bisa (Obi Islands, Lieut. Hulstijn's Explor. 

 Exped., Coll. Sa-anam No. 62) differs from the type in having the leaves thin, 

 with the costa prominent on both sides, and the spikes 2 ram. diam. 



Also in the Obi Islands 



(37a) Ij. patcntissiinuiii. ». A. ». «., in Bull. Btz., 1917, 

 XXIV, 4. 



Shoots simple or dichotomous, + 12 '/j — 20 cm. long including the 

 spikes, the stem subflliform. Leaves loose, horizontal, 6-farious, oblanceol- 

 ate-oblong, flrm-herbaceous, + 4 — 5 ram. long, + I'/j — 2 mm. broad at 

 or above the middle, narrowed gradually towards both ends, minutely 

 apiculate, entire, costate, decurrent. Spikes + '/a ^s long as the whole 

 plant, irregularly dichotomous, the branchlets + 3—4 mm. diam.; 

 sporophylla suberect, moderately loose, subulate-ovate, rather involuto- 

 canaliculate, entire, keeled, + 27a — ^ I'nm.. long. 



Neiv Guinea. 



§ 2. RHOPALOSTACHYS. 



(41a) li. hy^i'ophiluni, »• ^. ». R., in Bull. Btz., 1917, XXIV, 5. 



Main stem (rhizome) wide-creeping, remotely branched; primary 

 branches dichotomous; secondary and following branches erect; ultimate 

 branchlets terete, the fertile ones + 5—10 cm. long, + 3 — 4 mm. diam. 

 including the leaves. Leaves coriaceous, naked, subulate-lanceolate, + 

 3 mm. long, costate, the apex acuminate, scariose, deciduous; leaves of 

 the main stera subsecund or falcate, erected or soraewhat spreading, 

 minutely fimbriate-serrulate ; leaves of the ultimate branchlets crowded, 

 much incurved, decurrent, entire, flat or somewhat canaliculate. Spikes 

 solitary and terminal on the branchlets, on a short peduncle provided 

 with more or less remote whorls of bracts similar to the leaves, cylindrical, 

 ± 2 — 3 cm. long, + 3' — 6 mm. diam. ; sporophylla subulate-lanceolate, 

 eroso-firabriate-denticulate, at length spreading or deflexed, with a 

 deciduous, scariose point. 



Nero Guinea. 



(ilb) li. hydrophilum, v. A. «. «., in Bull. Btz., 1917, XXIV, 4. 

 Main stera (rhizome) stout, creeping, deciduously pubescent, copiously 



