104 103. SELAGINELLA. A\ MONOSTELICAE. a*. ASCENDENTES. 



morphous; lateral leaves of the stem subspreading or ascending, ovate, 

 to 5 ram. long, obtuse, entire, spuriously nerved, rounded on the upper 

 side at the base, cuneate on the lower side; those of the ultimate 

 branchlets imbricated, sessile, elongate-lanceolate, obtuse or very slightly 

 acuminated, falcate, pellucid-margined on the upper side, spuriously nerved, 

 the upper base cordate, ciliolate, the lower base cuneate or rounded, 

 entire or sparingly ciliated, the largest leaves 3 — 4 mm. long; intermedial 

 leaves Vs as long; those of the stem rhomboidal-ovate, long-cuspidate, 

 ciliolate to denticulate, soon entire, cordate on the outer side at the base, 

 cuneate on the inner side; those of the branchlets abruptly long-aristate- 

 acuminate, with the inner side entire, rounded at the base, the outer 

 side ciliated and cordate at the base. Spikes square, 1 — 2 cm. long, 

 1V» — 2 mm. diam.; sporophylla triangular-oblong, much acuminated, pellucid- 

 margined and minutely denticulate, keeled, those on the upper side 

 somewhat larger; macrospores yellowish-white, finely rugulose or reticulate; 

 microspores dirty-yellowish or orange, provided with stipitate-capitate or 

 conical projections on the basal side. 



War. brevi-arislala: Leaves of the upper plane acute or 

 acuminate, at best shortly -aristate, minutely denticulate to ciUolate. 



New Guinea. 



(48) IS. Moszkovvskii, nieron., in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., L, 14. 



Shoots erect, to 50 cm. or more long, the lower part simple, stipiti- 

 form, compressed, sub-2-sulcate on the face, subconvex on the back, to 

 4 mm. thick, glossy, olivaceous, yellowish or brownish, the upper part 

 sub-3-pinnate, ovate in outline, the main rachis 7 — 8 mm. broad including 

 the lateral leaves; lower pinnae to 20 cm. long, with the lower pinnulae 

 twice forked; ultimate branchlets 5 — 6 mm. broad. Leaves heteromorphous ; 

 leaves of the stipe rather erect, remote; lateral leaves obliquely ovate, 

 very unequal-sided, the largest 5 mm. long and 2 'A mm. broad, narrowed 

 gradually to the bluntish point, the upper (inner) side indistinctly and 

 narrowly pellucid-margined in the lower half, denticulate, entire towards 

 the apex, gradually long-ciliate towards the auriculate-cordate base, the 

 lower (outer) side entire, ciliate at the shortly subtruncate-rotundate 

 base; intermedial leaves slightly obliquely falcate-ovate, unequal-sided, 

 shortly aristate-acuminate, obliquely cordate at the base, the largest 4 

 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, the inner side narrowly pellucid-margined in 

 the lower part, denticulate towards the apex, ciliate towards the base, 



