532 APPENDIX. 102. LyCOPODItTM. 



branched; primary branches copiously branched, decumbent in the lower 

 part; secondary and following branches subdichotomous, erected, crowded; 

 ultimate branchlets terete, 2'/2 — 5 cm. long, 1—3 mm. diam. including 

 the leaves. Leaves subulate, + 2 — 3 mm. long, coriaceous, naked ; 

 leaves of the rhizome the largest, straight or somewhat curved, erect or 

 somewhat spreading, ciliolate, thickened ; leaves of the ultimate branchlets 

 crowded, much incurved, quadrangularly thickened towards the base by 

 the very prominent, keel-shaped costa, the edge sparingly and minutely 

 ciliolate. Spikes solitary and terminal on the ultimate branchlets, sessile, 

 cylindrical, to + 1 cm. long, as thick to twice as thick as the branchlets ; 

 sporophylla suberect, acutely subulate from a broadly ovate base, involuto- 

 canaliculate, ciliolate in the lower part, ecostate, at length squarrose. 

 New Guinea. 



(42) li. cernutim, X.,- — var. suffruticosum, v. A. v. R., in 



Bull. Btz., 1917, XXIV, 5. 



War. jSHffruticosuiii: Leaves of the ultimate branchlets much 

 incurved, thick, naked, entire; spikes rather thick, subcernuous; ultimate 

 branchlets crowded, erect, slender, to 2 mm. diam. — Ndo Guinea. 



(42'0 fj. brevibracteattini, v. A. k. R., in Bull. Btz., 1917, 

 XXIV, 5. 



Shoots erect, several m. long, the lower part simple, foliate, at 

 length aculeate-tuberculate by the persistent bases of fallen leaves, the 

 upper part copiously branched, the branching moderately lax, the rachises 

 woolly on 1 side with long, crisped hairs; primary branches 2-farious, 

 horizontal or spreading; secondary branches between pinnate and dichot- 

 omoas; ultimate branchlets + 4 mm. diam. including the leaves. Leaves 

 rather loose and terete, linear-subulate, entire, naked, decurrent, upcurved ; 

 of the primary branches horizontal; of the ultimate branchlets arcuate- 

 ascending, fine, to + 3 mm. long. Spikes erect, sessile at the end of 

 the branchlets, cyHndrical, ± 5 — 20 mm. long by ± l^l^~2 mm. diam.; 

 sporophylla short, triangular, ascending or at length subhorizontal, coriac- 

 eous, upcurved, acute or shortly acuminate, ecostate, eroso-crenate." 



Neiv Guinea. 



(42c) li. ioaneiitoisum, v. A. ». «., in Bull. Btz., 1917, XXIV, 

 6; — var. laxius, v. A. v. R., 1. c, 



