The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh. 471 



A native of wet marshy places up amongst the Circar moun- 

 tains, where it appears during the rainy season. 



Root consists of a numerous tuft of small capillary filaments 

 issuing from the base of the head, which is composed of 

 the enlarged bases of the leaves forming an imbricated 

 bulb. Leaves radical, erect, filiform, half columnar, about 

 6-8 inches long, smooth, inwardly interrupted every ? or ^ 

 of an inch, yet the leaf is not visibly contracted, nor does it 

 appear jointed. 



Capsules oval, concave on the inner side and convex on the 

 outer, conforming to the enlarged base of the leaves which 

 cover them, 1 -celled. 



Seeds numerous, like very fine sand. 



I have not seen the male flowers.* 



5. LYCOPODIUM. 



Capsules in the axils of the scales, digested into oblong 

 imbricate spikes, or of the leaves themselves ; kidney-shap- 

 ed, 2-valved, many-seeded. 



1. L. Phlegmaria. Dill. muse. t. bs. f. 5. Icon. Roxb. 

 14, t. 84. 



Perennial, parasitic, pendulous. Leaves numerous, ovate- 

 lanceolate. Spikes terminal, dichotomous, or simple. 

 Benfr. Shitahar. 



Tama ponel patsia maravara. Rheed. Mai. 12, t. 14. 

 Equisetum amboinicum. Rumph. Amb. 6, t. 41, y. 1. 

 Found in the Sunderhunds, on old trunks of trees, in 

 flower during the rains. 

 Root perennial, fibrous. 



* A third supposed species represented in his Drawings, vol. 14, t. 83, 

 under the name /. tuberosa, Roxburgh afterwards considered, I believe 

 correctly, to be probably a Scirpus, its description is therefore omitted.— 

 W. G. 



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