The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh. 473 



nelled, lanceolate, rigid, entire, smooth. Spikes terminal, 

 very long, and scarce distinguishable from the barren 

 parts. 



Nat. of Amboyna. 



4. L.JiUforme. R. L. Phlegmaria Linn. Wall. Cat. p. 62, 

 No. 133. 



Parasitic, drooping, (1-^ feet long.) Leaves tending to be 

 tern, triangulari-cordate, acute, smooth, and entire. Spikes 

 filiform, numerous, dichotomous, and often as long as the rest 

 of the plant, scales thereof opposite, ovate, scarcely longer 

 than the capsules. 



Nat. of Sumatra. 



Dillenius has no figure any thing like it. 



5. L. rotundifolium. R. Wall. Cat. 65, No. 2183. 

 Parasitic, drooping, (2-3 feet long.) Leaves approximate, 



opposite, sessile, round-oval, entire, smooth. Spikes filiform, 

 dichotomous, scales thereof approximate, opposite, ovate, 

 length of the capsules. 



Nat. of Sumatra, and a most beautiful species it is. 



6. Lycopodium aristatum. R. 



Patent, (1-3 inches long,) dichotomous. Leaves as well as 

 the superficial scales alternate, bifarious, ovate-falcate ; mem- 

 brane margined, apex ending in a bristle or arista. 



From China this pretty little species was brought to the 

 Botanic Garden at Calcutta in 1812, where it grows freely 

 in a rich, shaded, moist soil. It resembles most Dillenius's 

 figure, t. 66, f. 7. 



7. L. mimosoides, R. L. elegans. Wall. Cat. No. 62, 128. 

 (quod nomen delendum.) 



Suffruticose, oblique ; branches alternate, bifarious with 

 alternate bifarious branchlets, (exactly like the pinnae of 

 a fine-leaved mimosa.) Leaves alternate, bifarious, sessile. 



