(298 A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 
Hab. Common in Mexico, Galeotti 6606! Linden 85! Bourgeau 
1425! Hahn 2025! Guatemala, Salvin ¢ Godman 873! Frequent 
in gardens. I do not think Spring’s Panaman and Bolivian plants 
are this species, but his S. Poeppigiana var. mexicana belongs here. 
178. 8. sertcea A. Br. in Crypt. Nov. Gran. 882. — Stems 
stout, suberect, a foot or more long, flat on the back, deeply 
bisulcate down the face, sending out long radicles from the lower 
nodes, copiously pinnate, the erecto-patent branches flabellately 
compound. Leaves of the lower plane crowded and rather 
over the stem; leaves of the upper plane one-third as long, oblique 
ovate, acute. Spikes square, 4-1 in. long, 1 lin. diam.; bracts 
ovate, acute, much imbricated. Spikes square, }-} in. long, 1 lin. 
am.; bracts ovate, acute, crowded, strongly keeled. 
Hab. Andes of Eastern Peru, Poppig! Matthews 1085! Spruce 
4628! Heuador, in the woods of Archedona, Jameson 714! 
Group I[V.—Rap1aT2%. 
as long, ovate, acute. Spikes short, square, } lin. diam.; bracts 
ovate, acute, strongly keeled, Var. khasiensis Baker.—Leaves of 
the lower plane more numerous, closer and more spreading, 
narrower, and more acute. 
Hab. The type in the Philippine Islands, Cuming 1999!; the 
variety gathered by Griffith in the Khasia mountains. 
176. S. rtaccma Spring Enum. No. 77.—S. semicordata Spring 
Mon. ii. 107 ex parte. — S. radicans Spring Mon. ii. 261. — Lyco- 
podium flaccidum Bory. — L. curvatum Dalzell. — Stems suberect, 
4-1 ft. long, the slender root-fibres confined to near the ’ 
