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LYCOPODIALES 



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L. squarrosum Forst. (fig. 122) a tropical species from India, 

 Polynesia, and other regions, is characterised by its stout stems 

 reaching a diameter of 25 cm., bearing long pendulous branches 

 with large terminal cones composed of sporophylls differing but 

 slightly from the foliage leaves. The plant represented in the 

 photograph serves as a good illustration of the practical identity 

 in habit between Palaeozoic and recent genera. 



L. Balhousianum Spring, from the mountains of the Malay 

 Peninsula and Borneo, has larger leaves of finer texture with a 





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Fio. 124. Lycopodium ohscui-um. 



distinct midrib reaching a length of 2—3 cm. (fig. 121, E). 

 Another type is illustrated by L. nummularifolium Blume, also 

 a Malayan species, in which the leaves are shorter, broadly 

 oblong or suborbicular, and the branches terminate in narrow 

 and often very long strobili (sometimes reaching a length of 



