TAB. LXXXIV. 
Selaginella SUBARBORESCENS, Hook. 
Caule sesquipedali erecto terete parce et appresse folioso basi 
radicoso, superne frondoso pinnatim et dichotome ramo^o ; 
fronde coriacea erecta 12-16 uncias longa, pinnulis vel ra- 
mulis 6-8 uncialibus semiunciam latis linearibus acuminatis 
apice fertilibus subtus pallidioribus ; foliis exacte horizon- 
talibus oblongis acuminato-acutis paululum falcatis integer- 
rimis uninerviis, stipulis parvis erectis imbricatis, amentis 
terminalibus parvis binis ternisve lineari-oblongis nunc 
subramosis ; bracteis cordato-ovatis acuminatis subserratis. 
Hab. Bio Uapes, tributary of the Amazon, Brazil, in a 
forest near Jauarate-Cochoeira, R. Spruce^ n. 2540. 
This noble species is, perhaps, the tallest of the genus, the 
largest specimens that came under Mr. Spruce’s notice, he 
observes, were feet high : so that I have thought the name 
of suharborescens not inappropriate. The leaves on the stipes 
are close pressed, dark green, ovate, very distant, upwards 
they gradually, as it were, pass into the foliage of the frondose 
portion. The stipules are remarkably small in proportion to 
the size of the leaves. 
Tab. LXXXIY. Stipes and portion of a frond of Selagi- 
nella suharborescens, Hook. ; — natural size. Fig. 1, Stipules 
and leaves, seen from above ; f. 2. The same seen from be- 
neath f. 3. Capsule; f. 4. One of the three 
seeds from the capsule ; f. 5. Bractea and antheridium, and 
f. 4. Pollen grain ; all more highly magnified.- 
Cent. 3 . t, 84 . 
