156 A SYNOPSIS OF THK GENUS SELAGINELLA. 



raucli imbricated over the stem on tlie upper side at tlie base ; 

 leaves of the upper phine much smaller, ovate, acute. Spikes 

 short, resupinate, 1 lin. diam ; bracts of the upper plane erecto- 

 patent, oblique lanceolate ; of the lower plane ovate-cuspidate, 

 ascending, strongly keeled. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands, Menzies ! in herb. Smith. 



260. S. proniflora, n. sp. — S. Belaiu/eri Spring Mon. ii. 242. 

 — S. reticulata Spring Mon. ii. 235. — S. vnjosuruides and nudicaulis 

 Spring. — 8. imhricata J. Scott List. Calc. 62. — Lycopodium jjroiii- 

 jiorum Lam. — L. imbricatum Eoxb. — L. Belangeri Bory in Belang. 

 Voy. Bot. tab. 1, fig. 2. — L. remotifolima Desv. — L. reticidutum 

 Hook. & Grev. — Stems very slender, trailing, 1-4 in. long, often 

 forked at the base, coxnously pinnate, the erecto-patent branches 

 simple or little compound. Leaves of the lower plane spaced below 

 the tip of the branches, spreading, ovate, acute, a line long, pale 

 green, membranous, very unequal-sided, very cordate, strongly 

 ciliated, and much imbricated over the stem on the upper side at 

 the base ; leaves of the upper plane half as long, cordate-ovate, 

 acute, not cuspidate. Spikes resupinate, i-f in. long, ^-^ in. 

 diam. ; bracts of the upper plane erecto-patent, oblong-lanceolate, 

 much imbricated, -|-1 lin. long ; bracts of the lower plane paler, 

 much more ascending, shorter, ovate-cuspidate, strongly ciliated. 



Hab. Throughout India from the Eastern Himalayas to 

 Ceylon, the Malay Islands, and North Australia, ti. reticulata 

 Spring is simply a dwarf form of this species. I cannot by the 

 description separate S. Jumjhuhniana Spring in PI. Junghuhn. 277. 



261. S. phanotricha, n. sp. — S. ciliaris Cesati Ml. Born. 36, 

 uon Spring. — Stems very slender, trailing, 3-4 in. long, forked 

 low down, copiously pinnate, the branches erecto-patent, the lower 

 slightly compound. Leaves of the lower plane contiguous on the 

 branches, rather spaced on the stem, spreading, ovate, acute, 

 under a line long, rather firmer in texture than in 8. j^ronijlora, 

 very unequal-sided, very cordate, strongly ciliated, and much 

 imbricated over the stem on the upper side at the base ; leaves of 

 the upper plane half as long, ovate, cuspidate. Spikes resupinate, 

 short, 1 lin. diam. ; bracts of the upper plane oblique ovate, acute, 

 imbricated, erecto-patent ; of the lower plane ovate-cuspidate, 

 suberect. 



Hab. Borneo, on shady rocks at Labuan, Barber 184 ! Sarawak, 

 Bevcari ! 



262. S. Harveyi, n. sp. — Stems slender, trailing, 3-4 in. long, 

 sometimes forked low down, copiously pinnate, the erecto-patent 

 branches short, simple or shghtly compound. Leaves of the lower 

 plane contiguous on the branches, spaced in the lower part of the 

 stem, spreadmg, oblong, obtuse, membranous, f-1 in. long, nuarly 

 equal-sided, subcordate on both sides at the base, serrulate, hardly 

 at all imbricated over the stem ; leaves of the upper plane one- 

 third as long, ovate, acute, imbricated. Spikes \-\ in. long, 

 1-3- lin. diam., resupinate; bracts not very distmctly dimorphous, 

 those of the upper plane ovate, acuLe, erecto-patent ; of the lower 

 plane paler and rather shorter, especially towards the base of the 

 spike. 



