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Plaiichon Z. c. 179. — "Leaves pale glaucous green. Flowers 

 cojjper-red. Grows in dense mountain-woods between Sibate and 

 Fusagasugii, 2600-3000 metres. February. State of Cundi- 

 namarca, Colombia." — Lehvumn 2498. 



P. (subgen. Granadilla) ligularis Juss. ; Mast. I.e. p. 659; 

 et in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx, p. 40 ; Triana et Planchon /. c. p. 150. 

 — " Granadilla in col. Flowers greenish white, filaments light 

 violet-blue. Fruit as large as a goose's egg, edible. Woods about 

 Pasca, 2600 metres. February. State of Cundinamarca, Colombia." 

 — Lthnann 2518. 



P. viTiFOLiA H. B. et K. ; Mast. /. c. p, 607 ; et in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XX. p. 41 ; Triana et Planchon /. c. p. 143. — "Flowers glowing 

 blood-red, often produced on the old wood near the base. Damp 

 woods on the north-east slope of the volcano of Turrialba, 0-600 

 metres. February. Costa Kica." — Lehmann 1268. 



P. PULCHELLA H. B. et K. ; Mast. /. c. p. 570 ; Triana et 

 Planchon I. c. 167. — " Leaves pale glaiicous green. Flowers light 

 violet. Grows in thorny bushes about Punta Arenas. July. 

 Costa Kica." — Lehvumn 1735. 



A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 

 By J. G. Baker, F.K.S., &c. 



(Continued from p. 48.) 



O 283. S. LAEVIGATA Baker in Gard. Chron. 1867, 1190. — S. 

 pectinata Spring. — Lycopodium l(En'(jatHm Lam. — L. jicctinatum 

 Willd. — Stems erect, 1-1 i- ft. long, simple in lower half, the leaves 

 small, distant and soon deciduous, deltoid in the upper half, with 

 petioled deltoid 1-2-pinnate pinnae, the erecto-patent final divisions 

 reaching 2-3 in. long, ^-^ in. broad. Leaves of the lower plane 

 crowded, oblong-lanceolate, subpatent, very falcate, acute, ^— J in. 

 long, bright green, firm in texture, adnate by a broad base, decurrent 

 on the lower side, cuneate on the upper, not imbricated over the stem ; 

 leaves of the upper plane minute, lanceolate, recurved, acute. 

 Spikes square, ^-1 in. long, i-1 lin. diam. ; bracts ovate, acute, 

 strongly keeled. 



Var. S. Lyallii Spring Mon. ii. 168. — More compound ; lower 

 pinnfe bipinnate, with final divisions ^-1 in. long, -J-^ in. broad. 



Hab. Madagascar. The two varieties are connected by 

 gradual intermediates. 



234. S. microdendron, n. sp. — Stems erect, a span long, 

 simple in the lower third or quarter, with the leaves adpressed, 

 stramineous, compound upwards, the pinnje erecto-patent, lanceo- 

 late or deltoid, 1-2-pinnate, the ultimate segments erecto-patent, 

 not contiguous, J—^ in, long, 1 hn. broad. Leaves of the lower 

 plane crowded, erecto-patent, ovate, acute, ^ lin. long, bright green, 

 rigid, dilated on the upper side at the base, broadly rounded, 



