TAB. LXXXIIL 
Selaginella Sprucei, Hook . 
Semipedalis ad pedalem, caule inferne repente stolonifero 
superne ascendentc pinnatim ramoso ? rands seu pinnis 
elono-atis arete foliosis obtusis 6-9 lineas latis, foliis liori- 
zontalibus lingulato-oblongis obtusis uninerviis minute ser- 
rulatis basi superiore dilatato-rotundatis, stipulis triplo 
minoribus ovatis acuminatis subfalcatis erectis imbricatis, 
amentis copiosis omnino lateralibus unciam sesquiunciam 
longis flexuosis sutetragonis sajpissime deflexis, bracteis 
ovatis subacumiuatis paululum carinatis. 
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. Bichard Spruce. Its nearest affinity is perhaps with 
S. Breynii, 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/. 4. Spores; more magnified. 
Cent, 2. t. S3. 
