1. Selaginella.j 12. SELAGINELLAGEM. 



remote, flaccid, somewhat p^Tamidal. Lower leaves spreading or 

 rather ascending oblong or oblong-lanceolate, -08- -12" long, obtuse 

 or subacute, paler green or less firm in texture than in phunosutn, 

 nearly equal-sided, the acroscopic side not dilated at the base nor 

 imbricate over the stem, eeiliate, midrib distinct. Dorsal leaves 

 one-third to one-half as long, much imbricate, falcate or obliquely 

 broadly oblong, suddenly cuspidate or awned. Spikes square •25--5'' 

 long with ovate suddenly acute or sub-cuspidate strongl}^ keeled 

 bracts. 



Eajmahal Hills, Wall. ! Fl. Aug. 



Wallich's No. 126 contains two or three species. I take the left-hand plant on 

 the sheet bearing his full ticket to be the type. Spring, however, appears to have 

 taken a different sheet. 



5. S. plumosa, Baker. Syn. Lycopodium j)lumosum, L. 



Stem pale trailing -G^-l ft. long, often forked low down, copiously 

 pinnately branched, faces generally flat, roots extending to upper 

 nodes. Larger leaves contiguous on the branches, spreading or rather 

 ascending, bright green, firmer than in semicordata, oblong- to ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, 08-12" long, produced on the acroscopic side of 

 the distinct midrib and imbricated over the (lower face of) rhachis, 

 ciliate on both sides at the base ; smaller (dorsal) leaves half as long, 

 ovate, cuspidate, much imbricated. Spikes square, -2- -5" long, 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate acute or subcuspidate, strongly keeled. 



The above is mainly Baker's accoiuit of .S'. pliimosa to which species form tetra- 

 gonostachya. Wall., a dwarf suberect form, is assigned. This is not very easy to 

 separate from some specimens included in cnulescens. 



Monghyr Hills, Ham. (forma tetragonostachya). Fl. Sept. 



Spring quotes the above plant imder his " chrysocaulos " but surely in error, 

 as chrysocaulos belongs to the section with unilateral spikes and dimorphic bracts. 



Baker describes the bracts as acute. They are lanceolate and cuspidate in 

 Hamilton's plant, •07" long. 



6. S. caulescens, Spring. 



A pretty plant with erect stem 6-12'^ high simple rigid and with 

 distant leaves below, deltoid and pinnately decompound above. 

 Pinnae close deltoid with copious subflabellately compound lower 

 pinnules and contiguous ascending final branchlets -25-1" long, 

 • 12" broad, liable to curl up in drought. Ventral leaves crowded 

 ovate or broadly lanceolate falcate acute -Oo--!" long, firm, bright 

 green, rather unequal-sided, with fine microscopically serrulate 

 white margins broadly rounded at base and slightly imbricated over 

 (ventral side of) the stem, nerves usually 2 ; dorsal leaves one-fourth 

 to one -half as long, ovate, Avith oblique semicordate base, cuspidate, 

 much imbricated. Flowers (or spikes) 4-angled -2- -5" long, sporo- 

 phjdls ovate cuspidate or aristately acuminate. 



Hills of Chota Xagpur, frequent in shady forest, all districts ! 



The common Chota Nagpur plant does not always quite agree with caulescens 

 in the following particulars and there may be two species here. Chiefly the 

 leaves in many specimens are not 2-nerved* ; whereas Baker describes them as 

 shortly ciliate on the basal upper edge ours are minutely white ciUolate all round 

 but in this respect agreeing better with Spring's accoimt ; dorsal leaves often half 



* The 1-nerved specimens might belong to the erect variety of plumosa. I had 

 no opportunity of comparing them with this. 



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