40 TlMEHRI. 
the leaves are separate, while in the outer part or in 
the short branches they are close or crowded. The 
spikes are generally wider than the fronds, the bra6ls 
spreading rather openly, only half folded, in shape like 
the intermediary leaves. The ciliation of the auricle of 
the lateral leaves is rather long, and gives the underside 
a pubescent appearance. 
General distribution — Endemic, 
** Rachises exceeding a line wide over the leaves, — Species 5-9. 
5. Selaginella kaieteura, Jenman, Gard. Chron. vol. 2, 1887. — 
Fronds quite prostrate, rooting freely along the axis, herbaceous, 
dark-green, 3-4 or 6 in. 1., with pinnatiform, sub-distant, short branches* 
which are usually again shortly branched in like manner. Rachis 
firm, stramineous, leafy to the base, iJ-2 li. w. over all. Major leaves 
oblique, contiguous, most apart at the base of the stem, imbricating 
on the outer branches, i-ii li. 1., 1 li. w., very inequilateral, obliquely 
ovate-deltoid, obliquely cordate at the base, the auricled superior side 
very disproportionately deep, point obtuse ; margins plain. Minor 
leaves ovate, the bases slightly overlapped, cordate and nearly equi- 
lateral, acute, £ li. 1., and nearly as w. Spikes short, bracks convex or 
keeled, acute. 
Jenman, n. 1480. Gathered on the rocks at the foot of 
the Kaieteur Fall. This has some resemblance to S.platy- 
phylla, but the branches are nearer, the leaves close, 
broader in relation to the length, the upper side being 
so disproportionally wide as to produce an obliquely 
deltoid outline, though those at the ends of the branches, 
which are crowded and imbricating, are more equally cor- 
date, and in all cases the one at the base of each branch 
is striftly heart-shaped, both sides being equal, as is the 
case in some other species. My specimens are only 
slightly in fruit, and it is probable the spikes are longer 
than I have described. 
General distribution — Endemic. 
