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nearly equal-sided, rounded, obscurely ciliated and a little imbri- 

 cated over the stem on the upper side at the base, but not entirely 

 hiding it ; leaves of the upper plane one-third as long, oblique 

 oblong, acute, much imbricated. Spikes short, copious, square, 

 ^ lin. diam. ; bracts ovate, cuspidate. 



Hab. Philippines, Cumiurj 2000 ! and, according to Spring, 

 gathered in the Neilgherries by Perrottet. Midway between 

 caulescens and jiabellata in general habit, but more compound than 

 either of them. 



217. S. PTERYPHYLLOs Spring Mon. ii. 162. — (S', myosuroides 

 Presl. — Stem erect, about a foot long, simple in the lower half, 

 deltoid and decompound in the upper half, the lower pinn« deltoid, 

 the ultimate branchlets not more than \ in. long, ^ lin. diam. 

 Leaves of the lower plane oblong-lanceolate, erecto-patent, I— 1 lin. 

 long, acute, contiguous only on the ultimate branchlets, dark green, 

 moderately firm in texture, narrowed from the middle to the base, 

 nearly equal-sided, hardly at all imbricated over the back of the 

 stem ; leaves of the upper plane one-third as long, oblong, shortly 

 cuspidate. Spikes short, square, -^ lin. diam. ; bracts ovate- 

 cuspidate, strongly keeled. 



Hab. Philippines, Cuming 2017 ! Perhaps not more than a 

 variety of S. Penn ula. 



218. S. Braunh Baker in Gard. Chron. 1867, 1120. — S. 

 pubescens A. Br., non Spring. — Stems 1-1^ ft. long, erect, pale 

 stramineous, simple in the lower half, decompound, deltoid and 

 flexuose in the upper half, the pinnte erecto-patent and deltoid, 

 the pinnules regular, short, deltoid, spaced, the ultimate branchlets 

 not more than ^-J in. long, 1 line broad. Leaves of the lower 

 plane contiguous only on the final branchlets, nearly spreading, 

 ovate-rhomboid, subobtuse, ^ lin. long, liable to be revolute at both 

 edges, dark green, moderately firm in texture, narrowed to a trun- 

 cate base, not imbricated over the back of the pubescent branches ; 

 leaves of the upper plane one -third to one-half as long, oblique ob- 

 long, shortly cuspidate. Spikes short, square, ^ lin. diam.; bracts 

 suborbicular, cusj^idate, little longer than the sporangia. 



Hab. West China, Blakiston ! A distinctly marked species, 

 well known in cultivation, 



219. S. GRiFFiTHn Spring Mon. ii. 151. — S. virescens Spring. — 

 S. brevipes A. Br.' — Stems erect, ^-1 ft. long, simple in the lower 

 part, deltoid and decompound upwards, the root-fibres sometimes 

 extending upwards to where the branching begins, the face 

 bisulcate, the lower pinnte deltoid, 3 -pinnate, the branching of all 

 grades pinnate, the ascending contiguous final branchlets ^-^ in. 

 long, ^ in. broad. Leaves of the lower plane contiguous, more or 

 less ascending, oblong-rhomboid, subacute, ^— ^ in. long, thinner in 

 texture than in jiabellata, spuriously 3-nerved, dilated, rounded, 

 serrulate, and imbricated over the stem on the upper side at the 

 base; leaves of the upper plane minute, obovate, with a large cusp. 

 Spikes square, ^-^ in. long, ^ lin. diam. ; bracts ovate-cuspidate, 

 strongly keeled. 



Hab. Mountains of Mergui, Grij/ith ! 

 sj^ (To be continued.) 



