103. SELAGINELLA. A>. MONOSTELICAE. &*. ASCENDENTES. 95 



long, shortly aristate. Spikes square, 5 — 12 mm. long, 2 mm. diam., 

 solitary; sporophylla rather isomorphous, deltoid-ovate, shortly aristate- 

 acuminate, minutely denticulate, keeled, the ventral ones somew^hat 

 broader, the largest IV2 mm. long; macrospores yellow^ish-white, provided 

 with short or long, straight or flexuose, branched or reticulated rumples 

 on the basal side; microspores minium-red or yellowish, provided with 

 stipitate-capitate projections on the basal side. 

 Sibuyan (Philippines). 



(37) !i. Tuppingii, Miet-oM., Fed., Rep., X, 112. 



Shoots 40 cm. long, the lower part simple, stramineous-green, com- 

 presso-quadrangular, to 3 mm. thick, the upper part pinnately compound, 

 deltoid-ovate in outline; pinnulae with their branches simple or forked. 

 Leaves heteromorphous ; lateral leaves of the stipe unequal-sided, the 

 lowest suberect, the following spreading, remote, broadly oblique-ovate, 

 subfalcate, shortly acuminate, with the upper side minutely denticulate, 

 obsoletely denticulate towards the apex, ciliate at the subauriculate- 

 cordate base, the lower side subentire, obsoletely denticulate towards the 

 apex, ciliate at the subtruncate-rotundate base, the largest leaves 4 mm. 

 long and 3 mm. broad; of the main rachis glaucous-green, falcate-ovate, 

 acuminate, sparingly spuriously nerved, with the upper side piloso-den- 

 ticulate, narrowly pellucid-margined in the lower half, sparingly ciliolate 

 at the subauriculate-cordate base, the lower side entire, or hardly den- 

 ticulate towards the apex, sparingly ciliate at the truncate-rotundate 

 base, the largest leaves 6 mm. long and 8 mm. broad; of the branchlets 

 similar but smaller, contiguous, ovate-oblong, IV2 — 8 mm. long and Vi — 1 

 mm. broad, obtuse, more distinctly pellucid-margined and spuriously 

 veined, the upper side cuneate in the lower half, very narrowly truncate- 

 rotundate at the very base, the lower side narrowly cuneate or rotundate 

 at the base ; intermedial leaves erect ; of the stipe remote, unequal-sided, 

 obliquely subfalcate-ovate, shortly aristate-acuminate, more ar less den- 

 ticulate, ciliolate at the base, with the outer base incuryate-cordate, the 

 inner base subtruncate-rotundate, the largest leaves 8Vj mm. long; of the 

 branches similar to those of the stipe but growing gradually shorter; of 

 the branchlets imbricate, very sparingly ciliolate and rotundate-cordate 

 on the produced outer side at the base. Spikes solitary, 5 — 15 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. diam. ; sporophylla subisomorphous, deltoid-oblong, shortly 

 aristate-acuminate, minutely denticulate, indistinctly pellucid-margined in 



