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or ovate-oblong, subobtuse ; of the ultimate branchlets relatively narrower, 

 to 2Vj mm. long and '/< mm. broad; intermedial leaves of the stipe and 

 main rachis obliquely ovate, unequal-sided, aristate, shortly subcordate- 

 auriculate on the outer side at the base, rounded on the inner side, 

 piloso-denticulate and pellucid-margined on both sides, sparingly pellucid- 

 dotted ; those of the stem to 4 mm., of the rachis to 8 mm. long, the 

 cusp 'A as long as the blade; those of the ultimate branchlets ovate, 

 the largest VU mm. long. Spikes flexuose, square, 1 — 3 cm. long, 

 1 'A mm. diam. ; sporophylla ovate, shortly aristate-acuminate, keeled, 

 piloso-denticulate and pellucid-margined on both sides; macrospores 

 yellowish-white, rugulose with flexuose or reticulated rumples; microspores 

 dirty-orange, provided with scattered, sessile, capitate projections on the 

 basal side. 

 Borneo. 



(73) S. iiovae-giiiiioae, Bieron., Hedwi., XLI, 183. 



Shoots ascending from a creeping base, 35 cm. more or less long, 

 the lower 'A simple, brown-green, subquadrangular, compressed, to 3 mm. 

 thick, with the leaves subisomorphous, subequilateral, cordate-ovate, more 

 or less denticulate, 4 mm. long, 2 'A mm. broad, bluntish or subacute, 

 the lower suberect, the higher lateral spreading; upper part pinnate, 

 broadly ovate in outline; pinnae often 2-pinnate; penultimate branches 

 often forked or dichotomous; main rachis 8 — 10 mm. broad in the 

 upper part; ultimate branchlets 3 — 5 mm. broad including the lateral 

 leaves. Leaves of the branched portion heteromorphous ; of the lower 

 plane elongate-oblong, bluntish, rather spuriously veined near the costa 

 and margin; of the branches subremote, to 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, 

 unequally rotundate-subcordate at the base, the upper side sparingly 

 denticulate towards the apex and the base, the lower side denticulate 

 towards the apex; of the branchlets shorter, to 3 mm. long, 'A mm. 

 broad, approximate, unequally rounded or cordate at the base; leaves of 

 the upper plane ovate-oblong or subobovate-oblong, subcuspidate-acuminate ; 

 of the branches obliquely cordate at the base, with the outer auricle 

 produced, both sides minutely denticulate, pellucid-margined, the largest 

 leaves 4 mm. long, 2 — 2 'A mm. broad ; of the branchlets smaller, unequally 

 rotundate-cuneate at the base. Spikes ','2 — 2 cm. long, 2V2 — 4 mm. diam.; 

 sporophylla ovate, acuminate, dark-green, copiously denticulate on both 

 sides, 2 mm. long, hardly 1 mm. broad; macrospores yellowish- white. 



