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A NEW SELAGINELIiA FROM NEW GUINEA. 



plane much smaller, cordate-ovate, aristate. Spikes short, not 

 resupmate ; bracts of both planes resemblmg the leaves m shape 

 and arrangement. 



Hab. . Ceylon, Krow/. I have not found this amongst our 

 large set of Ceylon specimens. Of the synonyms cited by Spring 

 Lamarck's plant is our -S'. jironijlora, and Hooker & Greville's is 

 S. ten era. 



252, S. PALLiDissiMA Spring Mon. ii. 234. — Stems 3-6 in. long, 

 much intermatted, forked low down and pinnate, the branches 

 simple or sparingly compound. Leaves of the lower plane spaced 

 below the tip of the branches, spreading, ovate, acute, a line long. 

 j)ale green, membranous, very unequal-sided, very cordate on the 

 upper side at the base, shortly ciliated, much imbricated over the 

 stem ; leaves of the upper plane half as long, ovate, shortly 

 cuspidate. Spikes not resupinate, -1—1 in. long, ^ in. broad, some- 

 times forked ; bracts of the lower plane ovate, acute, erecto-patent, 

 slightly imbricated ; of the upper plane little smaller, suberect, 

 much imbricated. 



Hab. Temperate region of the Central Himalayas, ascending in 

 Kumaon to 8000-9000 ft. 

 ^^ (To be coutinuecl.) 



A NEW SELAGINELLA FEOM NEW GUINEA. 

 By J. G. Baker, F.R.S. 



I AM just too late to have intercalated in its proper place in my 

 synopsis the following new species, from New Guinea, of which we 

 have received, through the kindness of Baron von Mueller, four 

 specimens, three of them collected near Port Moresby by Edelfeldt, 

 and a fourth on the islands of the south-east coast by Armit. It 

 belongs to the Caulescentes group of the subgenus StacJujj/i/nandrum, 

 and much resembles a dwarf edition of the widely-spread and 

 well-knovfn S. J^abel lata. 



213"'' S. Muelleri, Baker, n. sp. — Stem erect, 6-8 inches long, 

 simple in the lower half or third, decompound upwards ; pinnae 

 crowded, deltoid ; final branches close, erecto-patent, ^-J lin. 

 diam. Leaves of the lower plane ovate-lanceolate, ^-f lin. long, 

 ascending, rather imbricated on the branchlets, bright green, 

 moderately firm in texture ; base rounded on both sides ; midrib 

 central; margin white, denticulate, not anywhere distinctly 

 ciliated. Leaves of the upper plane oblique ovate-cuspidate, 

 about half as long, much imbricated. Spikes short ; bracts ovate- 

 cuspidate, bright green, as long as the leaves of the lower plane. 



