202 Journal of the F.M.S. M^iseums. [Vol. VI, 



*337- ScHiz^A MALACCANA, Bak. ; Rtdl. op. cit. p. 335. 

 Very common on rocks in woods, or on stream-banks all over 

 the district; a rather short thick form, 



Dktrihiition. Mt. Ophir, Kedah Peak, and Malay 

 Peninsula generally. 



LYCOPODIACE^. 



338. Lycopodium cernuum, L. a very curious, stiffly 

 rigid form occurs on the dry parts of the Padang. 



*33g. Lycopodium casuarinoides, Spring.; Antea p. 62. 

 Common in the woods and occasionally creeping over rocks 

 from 4,000 feet to 5,600. 



340. Lycopodium ceylanicum, Spring. On stream- 

 banks by the Teku and in other spots, attaining the height of 

 a foot and branched. 



341. Lycopodium reflexum, Lam. Banks of Teku 

 stream at 4,600 feet elevation in wooded spots. 



342. Lycopodium Carolinianum, L. Common on damp 

 spots on the open Padang, with bright green creeping stems, 

 sending up fruiting shoots as much as 6 inches tall. The 

 plant exactly resembles a specimen from Missouri, North 

 America, collected by Tracy, in the Singapore herbarium. 

 New to the Peninsula. 



Distribution. Africa, Ceylon, New Guinea, China, N. and 

 S. America. 



343. Selaginella suberosa. Spring. In the Teku 

 woods. 



344. Selaginella pinangensis, Spring. Banks of 

 streams near the Camp. 



345. Selaginella oligostachya, Ba^. GunongTahan 

 {Robinson.) 



346. Selaginella alutacea. Spring. Teku woods on 

 damp banks. 



347. Selaginella acutangula, Spring. Woods, Gun- 

 on g Tahan. 



348. Selaginella polita, n. sp. 



Stem ascending, 6 to 8 inches, nude, rough with persist- 

 ent leaf-bases, pale yellow ; branches about 4 inches long, 

 little-branched, suberect. Leaves of the main stem oblong- 

 lanceolate, apex rounded, spaced, deciduous; of lower plane 

 lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, base broad, apex rounded, 

 imbricate, texture firm, polished, dark green above, a little 

 paler beneath, leaves of upper plane half as long, lanceolate, 

 long-cuspidate, paler. Spikes |^ to i inch long, slender. * 



Bracts of lower plane triangular, acute, small, and pale ; of c 



upper plane subtriangular, quite obtuse, dark green. Spo- 

 rangia large, globose. 



Woods by the Teku, Gunong Tahan. 



Nearest to S. suberosa, but smaller and denser, and little- 

 branched ; leaves rigid, polished and not ciliate. The habit of v 

 the plant is more that of S. trichobasis, ■ 



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