DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 327 
Transvaal. — Macamac (McLea); Houtbosch, 6800 ft (R. Schlechter, 
4758); Haenertsberg (Pole-Evans, 325). 
Portuguese East Africa. — Highlands inland from Beira (T. R. Sim). 
203. Lycopodium dacrydioides Baker. 
Plate 176. Nat. size. B Leaf, nat. size, c Bracts x 4. 
Stems up to two feet long, sparingly branched. Branches 
about one inch diameter, including leaves. Leaves about 
nine-ranked, three-quarter inch long, rather shorter upward, 
all narrowed gradually to an acute point from a base one 
line wide, dark green, glossy. Branching dichotomous. Fer- 
tile portion distinct, one to several inches long, thickened, 
with nine to ten ranks of quarter inch subulate bracts, acute 
from a wide base. Closely allied to L. gnidioides , but with 
simple instead of forked spikes, narrower and longer leaves, 
up to three-quarter inch long, and rather longer bracts than 
that species. 
“Mountains of Transvaal, Natal, Zambesiland, Cameroons, 
Fernando Po and St Thomas ” (Baker, Fern Allies , 18). 
Natal. — Zwaartkop (Marriott) ; Ngomi, Nkandhla, Ngoya (T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal. — (Burtt-Davy). 
Portuguese East Africa.— Plants from near Macequece seen in Beira 
in cultivation (T. R. Sim). 
204. Lycopodium cernuum Linn. 
Plate 179. Fig. 1. Nat. size. 
Stem three to four feet long, two to three lines diameter, 
including leaves, very much branched upwards, rigid, erect, 
and tree-like, or sub-erect and elongating like L. clavatnm , 
but not rooting. Branches short, produced all round the 
stem at short intervals, mostly in opposite pairs ; pinnately 
branched, with alternate, simple, dichotomous, or repeatedly 
dichotomous branchlets, which almost all terminate in fertile 
spikes. Leaves imbricated on the branches, lax and spreading 
on the stem, subulate, one to two lines long, with a distinct 
mid-rib. Fertile spikes terminal on the branchlets, a quarter 
to a half inch long, one line diameter, conical, sessile, often 
drooping ; bracts ovate, pointed, adpressed, ciliated. 
