22 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 



lata; pinnfe deltoid, ^-1 ft. long, each with several regularly 

 pinnate lanceolate acuminate pinnules with as many as 20 erccto- 

 patent contiguous simple tertiary segments, the longest reaching an 

 inch in length on each side. Leaves of the lower plane crowded, 

 rather ascending, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, bright green, mode- 

 rately firm in texture, l-12th to l-8th in. long, obscurely petioled, 

 rounded on both sides at the base, more so on the lower, not 

 ciliated, not imbricated over the stem ; leaves of the upper plane 

 very small, obtuse, with a distinct cusp. Spikes square, terminal 

 on the tertiary divisions, ^-^ in. long, 1 lin. diam. ; bracts ovate- 

 cuspidate, strongly keeled. 



Hab. Khasia Mountains, Hook. fil. cO Thomson ! 



207. S. viRiDANGULA Spring in Plant. Herb. Vanheurck. i. 29. 

 — Stems suberect, sarmentose, 3-4 ft. long; piuufe deltoid, reaching 

 a foot in length, erccto-patent, the pinnules with simple upper and 

 compound lower erecto-patent tertiary divisions, the ultimate seg- 

 ments usually |-1 in. long, the branches bright green at the base. 

 Leaves of the lower plane contiguous or nearly so on the branchlets, 

 lanceolate, falcate, acute, l-8th to l-5th in. long {^ in. long and 

 much spaced on the pinnae), bright green, moderately firm in 

 texture, not ciliated, truncate at the base, dilated, especially on the 

 lower side, not at all imbricated over the stem ; leaves of the upper 

 plane very small, oblong, with a distinct cusp. Spikes square, 

 1-2 in. long, 1 lin. diam. ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, strongly keeled. 



Hab. Mountain forests of Fiji, Seemann 707 his, Daemel 187 ! 

 Milne 196 ! 545 ! 



208. S. CHiLENSis Spring Mon. ii. 141. — Lycopodixim. chilense 

 Willd. — Stems sarmentose, suberect, 2-3 ft. long ; pinnae lanceolate 

 or lanceolate-deltoid, 3-6 in. long, the lower pinnules with 8-10 

 tertiary branchlets. Leaves of the lower plane contiguous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, cute, equal-sided, not ciliated, auricled on the upper 

 side at the base, cut away on the lower side ; leaves of the upper 

 plane one-third as long, oblong-lanceolate, very falcate. Spikes 

 square, -J in. long ; bracts ovate cuspidate. 



Hab. Mexico, Peru, and Chili. May be conspecific with S. 

 canaUculata. 



209. S. SOANDENS, Spring Mon. ii. 192. — Lycopoditim scandens 

 Swartz ; Kunze Farrn. t. 10. — Stachygynandrum scandens P. Beauv. 

 Fl. Owar. t. 7. — Stems slender, pale straw-coloured, polished, 

 climbing indefinitely ; penultimate divisions lanceolate, with a 

 flexuose axis, and spreading or ascending parallel- spaced simple 

 ultimate divisions ^-1 in. long. Leaves of the lower plane con- 

 tiguous on the ultimate branchlets, spreading, lanceolate, acute, 

 ^ in. long, blue-green, rather thin in texture, slightly dilated on 

 the upper side at the base, hardly at all imbricated over the stem ; 

 leaves of the upper plane very small, oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate. 

 Spikes square, ^-1 in. long ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, strongly 

 keeled. 



Hab. West Tropical Africa, from Senegambia southward along 

 the coast to the Equator. 



210. S. WiLLDENovii Baker in Gard. Chron. 1867, 950. — S. 



