244 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 
plane half as long, oblique ovate, acute, not cuspidate. Spikes 
square, 4-1 in. long, 1 lin. diam; bracts ovate-lanceolate, rigid, 
strongly keeled. 
Hab. Inundated caatingas at Panuré, on the Rio Uapes, Spruce 
2535! <A near ally of S. albonitens 
13 LAGELLATA Sprin Mon. ii. 208. -- Stems trailing, 
intermatted, “half a foot long, the branches erecto-patent, the 
lower perpiously compound, the branchlets excurrent and whip-like 
at end. Leaves of the lower plane ovate-lanceolate, very acute, 
<a a line long, pellucid, bright green, more produced on the 
Bpper side of the midrib, rounded at the base, shortly ciliated, and 
mbricated over the stem ; leaves of the upper plane one- third as 
tag, ovate-acuminate, falcate, convergent. Spikes 4-4 in. long; 
bracts very acuminate, strongly 
. rench Guiana, on rocks on the banks of the streams 
of Upper Oyapok, Leprieur. 
hora, n. sp. — Stems very slender, trailing, 
4 " — closely pinnate, the erecto-patent branches Pune 
compound, both branches and main stem often excurrent and 
whip-like at the tip. Leaves of the branchlets oblong-lanceolate, 
contiguous and ascending, the main a ceolate, 
with a Tong ouRp. Spikes e,+-+4 in. long, 4 lin. diam.; bract 
Sennen 291 3 
Series II.—AscenpEntEs. 
Group I.—Svuserecre. 
- §. vemensis Spring Mon. ii. 198; S. adunca A. Br.; Lyco- 
sila jemenee Sw. Syn. Fil., tab. 4, fig. 4.—Stems 6-9 in. long, 
wiry, decumbent and unbranched, with root-fibres from nodes 
in the lower part, decompound upwards, with dense erecto-patent 
flabellately compound branches. Leaves obscurely dimorphous, 
those of the lower plane imbricated, usually ah sbgaens to the stem, 
rarely erecto-patent, oblong, euspidate, 4 lin. long, rigid in texture, 
with a distinct white serrulate edge 5, those of the upper plane 
rather shorter an ore erect. ort, — 3-1 lin. 
whal, and 
mountains of Arabia and Aby ssinia. A near ally of sanguinolenta 
and borealis, and a connecting link between the subgenera Huselagi- 
nella and Stachyg, onageiber 
14 
S. BOREAL s Spring Mon. ii. 96; S. ap to snes 
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