A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS SELAGINELLA. 911 
has not been found yet by our English collectors, who have 
gathered about 200 vascular cryptogams in Central Madagascar. 
toides Hook & Stems slender, trailing, pale straw-coloured, 
at he faces, copiously pinnately branched, the branches 
copiously flabellately co Leaves of lower plane ascending, 
crowded, lanceolate, acute, 1- pea to 1-8th in. long, moderately 
firm in texture, right green re produced on the Big ah side of 
the distinct midrib, rae ‘ iiiated near the base on the uppe r 
side, where it is cordate and so mu ch imbricated over eke bran 
that the latter i is quite RE leaves of the Taps plane a third a as 
long, oblong, acute, much imbricated. Spikes square, +-4 in. long, 
diam.; bracts crowded, ovate- anceclaye strongly keeled. 
Hab. Seychelles, Madagascar, Johanna Islan , and Guinea. 
S. amphirrhizos, A. Br., from Johann a Toland, Hildebrandt 1808, 
seems to be a luxuriant Pots of this species. The Seychelles. plant 
has shorter, paler, less lanceolate leaves than the Madagascar 
type. 
62. 8S. surcunosa Spring Mon. ii. 147.—Stems wide-irailing, 
pale straw-coloured, irregularly angled, a foot long, copiously 
pinnately penne the short cuneate branches copiously flabel- 
lately compound, Leaves of the lower plane crowded, lanceolate, 
very care 1 12th to 1-8th in. long, fir rm in salty bright green, 
nearly equal on both sides of the distinct midrib, shortly ciliated 
through the ae half of the upper edge, which is a little produced 
at the base, and imbricated over the branch; leaves of upper plane 
a third as long, oblique oblong, with a long cusp, much imbricated. 
Spikes unknown. 
. Mountains of Bourbon, Dr. J. B. Balfour! May be a 
variety of S. concinna, from which it differs by its narrower, acute, 
neary equilateral leaves 
3. 5. concinn Sprin ring Mon. ii. 199; Lycopodium concinnum 
on ; L. pectinatum Lam., ex parte; L. apiculatum, sinuosum 
and sparsifolium, Desv.—Stems trailing, reaching a foot or more in 
length, subterete, often forked low down, copiously pinnately 
ene the lower branches cuneate and oe 
und. Leaves 
Gena tana 1-12th to 1-8th in. long, subacute, bright green, 
glossy, rigid in texture, more produced on the upper side of the 
distinct midrib, the base on the upper side shortly rigidly ciliated, 
and so much dilated that the branch is quite hidden ; leaves of the 
upper plane a third as long, oblique oblong, with a long cusp, 
much imbricated. Spikes 4-1 in. long, ee 1 lin. diam. ; bracts 
ovate, cuspidate, crowded, strongly kee 
Hab. Mountains of the Mascaren Talend especially Mauritius ; 
Spring’s sNeilgherry and Ceylon specimens are clearly both S. pluwmosa. 
I cannot separate S. serrulata Spring Mon. i. 302 (Lycopodium 
ser 
ars re te tuarum Baker, Fl. Maurit. 528.—Stems slender, 
trailing, Ae a : foot long, bisuleate on the face, lengthened out am. 
whip-like at the end, forked low down, pinnately branched, wi 
