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202 Journal of the F.M.S. M^iseums. [Vol. VI,
*337- ScHiz^A MALACCANA, Bak. ; Rtdl. op. cit. p. 335.
Very common on rocks in woods, or on stream-banks all over
the district; a rather short thick form,
Dktrihiition. Mt. Ophir, Kedah Peak, and Malay
Peninsula generally.
LYCOPODIACE^.
338. Lycopodium cernuum, L. a very curious, stiffly
rigid form occurs on the dry parts of the Padang.
*33g. Lycopodium casuarinoides, Spring.; Antea p. 62.
Common in the woods and occasionally creeping over rocks
from 4,000 feet to 5,600.
340. Lycopodium ceylanicum, Spring. On streambanks
by the Teku and in other
a foot and branched.
spots, attaining the height of
341. Lycopodium reflexum, Lam. Banks of Teku
stream at 4,600 feet elevation in wooded spots.
342. Lycopodium Carolinianum, L. Common on damp
spots on the open Padang, with bright green creeping stems,
sending up fruiting shoots as much as 6 inches tall. The
plant exactly resembles a specimen from Missouri, North
America, collected by Tracy, in the Singapore herbarium.
New to the Peninsula.
Distribution. Africa, Ceylon, New Guinea, China, N. and
S. America.
343.
woods.
Selaginella suberosa. Spring. In the Teku
344. Selaginella pinangensis, Spring. Banks of
streams near the Camp.
345.
{Robinson.)
Selaginella oligostachya, Ba^. GunongTahan
346. Selaginella alutacea. Spring. Teku woods on
damp banks.
347. Selaginella acutangula, Spring. Woods, Gunon
g Tahan.
348. Selaginella polita, n. sp.
Stem ascending, 6 to 8 inches, nude, rough with persistent
leaf-bases, pale yellow ; branches about 4 inches long,
little-branched, suberect. Leaves of the main stem oblonglanceolate,
apex rounded, spaced, deciduous; of lower plane
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, base broad, apex rounded,
imbricate, texture firm, polished, dark green above, a little
paler beneath, leaves of upper plane half as long, lanceolate,
long-cuspidate, paler. Spikes |^ to i inch long, slender. *
Bracts of lower plane triangular, acute, small, and pale ; of c
upper plane subtriangular, quite obtuse, dark green. Sporangia
large, globose.
Woods by the Teku, Gunong Tahan.
Nearest to S. suberosa, but smaller and denser, and littlebranched
; leaves rigid, polished and not ciliate. The habit of v
the plant is more that of S. trichobasis,
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