Lycopodiace/e of Guiana and their Allies, 49 
ascend side by side, are simple, and are forked when 
divided, the shorter ones being fertile. Possibly it is 
a distinft species. 
General distribution — Endemic. 
** Fronds scandent. — Species 19. 
19. Selaginella puberula, Klotzsch.— Spring Mon. Lycop. II. 
160. Baker Syn. Gen. Selaginella, p. 76. — Stems repent, throwing up 
close ascending stems which are terete, stramineous or brown below and 
glossy with scattered appressed leaves, and no branches for a space 
3-6 in. from the base. Fronds much elongated, 1-2J ft. or more 1. 2-4 
or 5 in. broad, but generally about 2-3 only ; rachis like the stems, terete. 
Branches alternate, 1-2 in. 1. as much apart, ere£l-spreading, again 
branched, final ones i-if in. 1. i£-2 li. w. over all. Major leaves imbri- 
cating, spreading nearly horizontally, slightly curved to the acute point, 
broadest at the base, cordate and rather auricled, the upper side wider, 
and ciliate-edged, £-f li. 1. about half as wide ; the minor leaves imbri- 
cating, minute, sub-equal-sided, attached by the rather shorter inner 
base, ovate, mucronate, i li. 1. Spikes 4-stichous £-i£ in. 1. enlarge at 
the base or not with the macrospores. 
RICH. SCHOMBURGK, n. 979. This is clearly a semi- 
scandent species. It varies slightly in the ciliation or 
nakedness of the leaves, and in the stem being puberulous 
or not. It has a repent stem from which the fronds are 
thrown up at short intervals apart. These have a pe- 
tiole clear of branches, a few inches long, above which the 
narrow fronds extend 1^-2 ft. or more, supported 
on bushes, or other surrounding growth. The slender 
terete main rachis is exposed to the top, but furnished 
with scattered leaves, which are in three series and ap- 
pressed to the surface, in a line with the rachis, and 
therefore distinft in chara6ler from the lateral spreading 
leaves. 
General distribution — Guiana, Brazil and Peru. 
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