DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 
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Natal. — Zwaartkop (Stayner) ; Howick (R. Schl. 6778); Sweetwaters, 
Bulwer, Nottingham Road, Rosetta, Giant’s Castle, Inanda, etc., 
frequent (T. R. Sim). 
Transvaal.' — Rosehaugh (J. M. Sim). 
Rhodesia. — Matopo Hills, 4500 ft (Eyles, 1043). 
Baker remarks: “This is quite distinct from the European 
S', denticulata , with which Spring combines it.” 
This is evidently rare westward, as Schlechtendal (. Adum.Z ), 
Kunze (. Linn . 10, 487), and Pappe and Rawson (53), all place 
it among little known or doubtful species, and Kuhn only 
records “Cape (Thunberg), Natal (Gueinzius)” ; while we had 
seen no specimens alive nor in the herbaria, when our first 
edition was published. 
Buchanan gives “S. denticulata Link, in damp parts of 
bush in most parts of Natal,” which seems to belong to this 
species, as S'. Kraussiana Br., which is also cultivated as L. 
denticulatum, is separately mentioned by him. 
210. Selaginella Kraussiana A. Braun. 
Plate 182. Fig. 1. Nat. size. 
Stem procumbent or sub-erect, herbaceous, half line dia- 
meter, not including leaves, one to three feet long, pinnately 
branched, jointed at each branch, and with one root at the 
base of each branch. Branches ascending or procumbent, 
branching repeatedly in a pinnate manner, the ultimate 
branches often dichotomous. Leaves of two kinds, rather 
distant, except at the points of the branches ; the lower 
ones spreading, horizontal, broadly lanceolate, pointed, one 
to two lines long, one-half to one line broad, slightly oblique, 
minutely toothed all along the edges. The smaller leaves 
lie along the upper surface of the stem in two rows, flat, with 
the point upturned, lanceolate-acuminate; one line long, one- 
third line broad, very oblique at the base. Spikes on the 
lower branches, one-half to three-quarter inch long, half 
line broad, four-angled from the ovate-acuminate keeled 
bracts, being arranged in four regular rows. 
S. Kraussiana A. Braun. Baker, Fern Allies , 65 ; Kuhn, Fit. Afr. 
190; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr., 1st ed., 252. 
