180 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 



Var. S. ORNATA Spring Men. ii. 259. — S.Jiwhriata Spring Mon. 

 ii. 258. — Lycopodiuw ornatum Hook. & Grev.— Stem erect from the 

 base. Leaves smaller, more rigid and more ascending. Spikes 

 longer and narrower, |-1 in. long, with less distinctly dimorphous 

 bracts. 



Hab. Kliasia Mountains, Malay Islands, Ceylon and Mauritius. 



275. S. megaphylla, n. sp.^ — Stems |-1 ft. long, assurgent 

 from a decumbent base, with very long root-fibres, the branches 

 copiously compound, deeply sulcate down on the face. Leaves of the 

 lower plane contiguous except low down the stem, patent from an 

 oblique base, linear-oblong, obtuse, ^-\ in. long, 3-4 times as long 

 as broad, bright green, moderately firm in texture, serrulate, rounded 

 and a little imbricated over the stem on the upper side at the base ; 

 leaves of the upper ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate. Spikes short, resu- 

 pinate, -^ in. diameter ; bracts of the upper j)lane lanceolate-acumi- 

 nate, rigidly erecto-patent ; of the lower paler, rather shorter, more 

 ascending. 



Hab. Mishmi, East Himalayas, Griffith ! 



276. S. squarrosa, n. sp. — Stems about a foot long, trailing 

 and sending out copious root-fibres in the lower half, assurgent, 

 deeply bisulcate down the face, copiously pinnate, the ha'anches 

 copiously compound. Leaves of the lower plane spreading and con- 

 tiguous on the branches, spaced and rather squarrose on the main 

 stem, oblong-rhomboid, subacute at the upper corner, one-sixth to 

 one-fifth in. long, bright green, moderately firm in texture, not 

 ciliated, dilated, cordate and much imbricated over the stem on the 

 upper side at the base ; leaves of the upper plane small, ovate, 

 with a cusp as long as the lamina. Spikes short, resupinate, ^ in. 

 diam. ; bracts of the upper plane lanceolate, spreading, squarrose ; 

 of the lower jAane ovate cuspidate, ascending. 



Hab. Cameroon Mountains, alt. 4000 feet, Mann 1407 ! Sierra 

 de Crystal, ]\[(wn 1638 ! 



277. S. Mannii, n. sp. — Stems ^-1 ft. long, assurgent from a 

 decumbent base, from Avhich arise several large stout root-fibres, 

 bisulcate down the face, closely pinnate, the erecto-patent branches 

 copiously compound. Leaves of the lower plane contiguous on the 

 branches, rather spaced on the main stem, ascending, ovate- or 

 oblong-rhomboid, subacute at the upper corner, ^-^ in. long, bright 

 green, firm in texture, dilated, shortly ciliated, cordate, and much 

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

 the upper plane half as long, ovate-cuspidate. Spikes l-h in. long, 

 1 lin. diam., resupinate; bracts of the upper plane ovate-lanceolate, 

 rigidly erecto-patent ; of the lower plane shorter, ovate-cuspidate, 

 more ascending, ventricose, acutely keeled. 



Hab. Island of St. Thomas, West Tropical Africa, alt. 5000 ft., 

 Mami 1108! 



y^ (To be continued.) 



