Underwood and Lloyd: Lycopodium 107 



Ecuador: 1857-9, Spruce 542 g. A unique species, with 



rigid leaves wholly unlike L. reftexnm, under which name it was 



distributed. In the Kew Herbarium Mr. Baker has marked this 



number of Spruce as L. reflexum var. dcnsifolium, a conclusion 



no one could have reached from Mr. Baker's brief description of 

 the plant. 



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6. Lycopodium montanum sp. nov. 



A terrestrial shade plant, 30-40 cm. high, with decumbent 

 bases and dark-green foliage. Stems 2-3 mm. thick, once or 

 twice forked, the older portions becoming decumbent and ulti- 

 mately dying away while the newer parts are nearly erect, the 

 whole stems often 70-90 cm. long with dark-green foliage; leaves 

 1.5 cm. long by 0.7—O.8 mm. wide, linear, acuminate, spreading, 

 at length reflexed, downwardly curved near the tips, the midrib 

 not evident in the dry material but distinct when moist; sporo- 

 phyls like the leaves, the sporangia much exceeding the sporo- 

 phyls in width, 1.5 mm. broad and nearly as deep. 



Jamaica : Summit of Blue Mountain Peak in deep shade, Under- 

 wood 2537 (tyP e )> 2 54 2 ' Nock (in herb. Jenman). 



Near to this species are the closely allied specimens from 



Bolivia {Mandon 1528) and Ecuador (Sodiro), which probably 



belong to L. Lechleri Hieron., a species recently described. L. 

 hippuridcum Christ is also a closely allied species. 



This plant was apparently first collected in Jamaica by Nock 

 in 1880 on the ridge of Blue Mountain Peak. Mr. Jenman con- 

 fused this elegent terrestrial species with the epiphytic and 

 remotely related L. dichotomum, and when the latter species was 

 brought in from Grenada he was inclined to regard it as undes- 

 cribed, as he had evidently not seen the true L. dichotomum from 

 Jamaica, where it appears to be rather rare. The two species have 

 very little in common and this elegant plant is one of the hand- 

 somest of the terrestrial species, growing in large patches in the 

 shade of the dense forest that covers the summits of the Blue 

 Mountain range. 



7. Lycopodium hippurideum Christ, Prim. Fl. Cost. 3' : 56. 

 1 90 1. (Type from Costa Rica, Pitticr 106 19.) 

 Costa Rica : El Paramo, 3000 m., Massif de Buena Vista, 



Pitticr 10619. Known only from its type locality. There is a 



cotype in the United States National Herbarium. 



