TAB. LXXXIIIe 
Selaginella. Sprucei, Hook, 
Semipedalis ad pedalem, caule inferne repente stolonifero 
superne ascendente pinnatlm ramoso, ramis seu pinnis 
elongatis arete foliosis obtusis 6-9 llneas latis, foliis bori- 
zontalibus lingulato-oblongis obtusis uninerviis minute ser>“ 
rulatis basi superiore dilatato-rotundatis, stipulis triple 
minoribus ovatis acuminatis subfalcatis erectis imbricatisj 
amentis copiosis omnino lateralibus unciam sesquiunciam. 
longis flexuosis sutetragonis ssepissime deflexisj bracteis 
ovatis subacumiuatis paululum carmatis, 
Hab. On a mountain called Campana^ near Tarapoto, Eastern 
Peru, R, Spruce, n. 4623. 
This, I have reason to believe, is quite new, and certainly 
a most lovely species, worthy of bearing the name of so dis- 
tinguished a traveller and so able a Botanist, as its discoverer, 
Mr. Eichard Spruce. Its nearest affinity is perhaps with 
S, Breyniij Spring, 
Tab. LXXXIII. Upper portion of a plant of Selaginella 
Sprucei, Hook.; nat size. Fig. 1. Upper side of a portion 
of a branch, with leaves, stipules and a spike or amentum ; 
magnified, f, 2. Leaf ; more magnified, f, 3. Bractea and 
capsule, and fi, 4. Spores ; more magnified. 
Cent. 2. t, 83. 
