474 The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh. 



expanding, falcate, somewhat acute, smooth, entire ; super- 

 ficial scales (stipules,) semiovate mucronate. Spikes short, 

 imbricated 4-ways ; scales long, cordate, acute. 

 Nat. of the Moluccas. 



8. L. Icevigatum^ Lamarck. Encyclop. 3, 652. Wall. Cat. 

 65, No. 2185. 



Somewhat sufFruticose, leaning, and emitting roots, (12 

 inches high,) branches and branchlets alternate, bifari- 

 ous. Leaves alternate, sessile, bifarious, expanding, falcate, 

 smooth, superficial scales (stipules) obliquely-oblong, smooth, 

 cuspidate. Spikes short, imbricated four ways : scales cor- 

 date, cuspidate, margined, twice the length of the round- 

 reniform capsules. 



Muscus fruticescens. Rumph. Amb. 6, t. 39, f. 2. 



Nat. of the Malay Islands. 



9. L. pectinatum. Lamarck. Encyclop. S, 651. L. semi- 

 cordatum, Wall. Cat. 62, No. 126 ? 



By far the greatest part of the plant erect. Branches bi- 

 farious, alternate, dichotomous. Leaves alternate, bifarious, 

 expanded, falcate, obtuse, smooth ; posterior lobes protrud- 

 ed ; superficial scales subelliptic, mucronate. Spikes short, 

 imbricated four ways ; scales thereof reniform-cordate, acute, 

 and longer than the reniform-capsules. 



Nat. of the Malay Islands. 



10. L. plumosum. Dill. muse. t. 66, jT. 10. L. atroviride. 

 Wall. Cat. 62, No. 120 ? 



Creeping, branches oblique, dichotomous. Leaves alternate, 

 bifarious, expanded, oblong, obtuse; posterior lobes stem- 

 clasping and ciliate ; superficial scales subovate, ciliate, and 

 awned. Spikes imbricated four ways, with taper-cordate, 

 ciliate, acute scales, twice longer than the cordate capsules. 



Nat. of various parts of India. In Bengal it is found on 

 rotten wood. 



