52 TlMEHRl. 
the larger series following the smaller normal leaves, and the smaller 
the larger leaves. — Species 22-24. 
* Rachises not exceeding one line wide over the leaves. — Species 22. 
22. Selaginella rhodostachya, Baker in Lin. Soc. Trans. — 
Fronds prostrate with fine descending roots along the main and other 
rachises, leafy to the base, slender, the lower part not branched, 
6-9 in. 1., 1 £-2 in. w., 3-pinnate, the branches distant, and irregular in 
length. Major leaves spreading, with two or three times their own 
space between them, ovate, rounded at the end, equilateral, the margins 
faintly ciliate or naked, f li. 1., \ li. w., delicate but firm in texture, very 
pale green ; minor series similar in shape, but acute, hardly at all or 
little or much reduced, close, distant or sub-distant, the margins also 
slightly ciliate or naked. Spikes very short, i-i J li. 1„ the bra6ts con- 
form with the leaves, lax, those of the upper side not much enlarged, 
slightly ciliate on the edges. All the rachises quite terete and stiffish. 
IM THURN, n. 226 ; base of cliff, Roraima. This by 
the variation in its leafage in the same fronds is a pecu- 
liar species. In some of the specimens the lateral and 
intermediary leaves are exa6lly alike in form and size ; 
in others the lateral are slightly larger; and in others 
again very decidedly so. The only modification seen in 
the bra6ls is that in some instances they are slightly 
keeled, and the superior series are not much larger than 
the inferior, but the difference is decided and obvious. 
Though very slender, the species has a firm, rather wiry 
look. 
General distribution — Endemic. 
* Rachises exceeding one line wide over the leaves. — Species 23-24. 
23. Selaginella anomala, Spring. Mon. Lycop. II., p. 247. 
Baker Syn. Gen. Selaginella p. 95. Lycopodium Hook and Grev. — 
Fronds prostrate or sub-prostrate, forming overlapping patches in 
growth, leafy from the base, rooting or not along the rachis, varying 
from oblong to broadly ovate-deltoid or flabellate in outline, 2-3 or 
4 in. each way, 2-3 times pinnately branched, the final branches in the 
