103. SELAGINELLA. Ai. MONOSTKLICAE. Si*. ASCENDENTE8. 89 



branchlets spreading, close, more falcate, ovate-oblong, blunt, the upper 

 base rotundate-cuneate, the lower broadly so and provided with — 3 

 ciliae, the largest leaves 4 — 5 mm. long and IV2 — 2 mm. broad; inter- 

 medial leaves erect; of the stipe falcate-ovate, nearly equal-sided, shortly 

 acuminate, minutely piloso-denticulate, the outer base produced, hamate- 

 incurvate, the inner base subcuneate, the largest leaves 4 mm. long; of 

 the main rachis similar to those of the stipe but a little shorter; of the 

 branchlets shorter, falcate-obovate, abruptly shortly aristate-acuminate, 

 more or less denticulate towards the apex, cordate on the outer side at 

 the base, cuneate on the inner side. Spikes 1 — 2V2 cm. long, to 3 mm. 

 diam. ; sporophylla broadly deltoid-oblong, acuminate, narrowly pellucid- 

 margined in the lower part, sparingly denticulate, keeled, the largest 

 Vh mm. long; macrospores blackish, brownish or yellowish, provided with 

 flexuose, branched or reticulate rumples on the basal side ; microspores yellow 

 or yellowish, sparingly provided with capitate projections on the basal side. 

 Mindanao. 



(30) S. intesrirolia, r. A. ». «., Bull. Btz., 1913, XI, 33. 



Shoots erect from a more or less ascending base, 10 — 20 cm. long, 

 the lower part rather short, simple or forked, terete or obtusely angular, 

 1 — V/2 mm. thick, stramineous-grey, the upper part branched; pinnae to 

 9 cm. long; pinnulae simple, forked or sparingly pinnate; ultimate branch- 

 lets ','2 — VU cm. long, IVj— 2 mm. broad including the lateral leaves. 

 Leaves heteromorphous on both stem and branches; leaves of the lower 

 plane erecto-patent, oblong, nearly straight, bluntish, entire, or very 

 sparingly and minutely denticulate on the upper side at the base ; of the 

 stem somewhat remote, unequal-sided, 2 mm. long and 'A as broad, 

 rotundate-cuneate on both sides at the base, the upper side the broadest, 

 rounded, pellucid-margined; of the branchlets similar but narrower, the 

 largest nearly as long, more close, less unequal-sided, cuneate at the 

 base; leaves of the upper plane oblong or subobovate-oblong, shortly 

 cuspidate, entire, pellucid-margined, cuneate on the inner side at the base, 

 produced and cordate on the outer side at the base, the cusp to '/3 as 

 long as the blade ; of the stem rather remote, 2 mm. long ; of the branch- 

 lets imbricate, smaller. Spikes short, square, Vh — 2 mm. diam.; sporo- 

 phylla deltoid-ovate, acute or acuminate, entire, or very sparingly and 

 minutely denticulate at the base, pellucid-margined, keeled, 1 mm. long; 

 macrospores whitish or yellowish-white, finely reticulate or rugulose, 



