MONOSTELICAE. a'. CAULESCENTES. 127 



branches spreading; branchlets numerous, erecto-patent, often simple, 

 IV4 — 2 mm. broad including the lateral leaves Leaves rigid, deep-green 

 above, pale and glittering beneath, those of the stem isomorphous, not 

 copious; those of the branched portion heteromorphous. Leaves of the 

 branches contiguous, those of the lower plane ovate-lanceolate, 2 — 2V2 

 mm. long, 1—1 'A mm. broad, falcate, acuminate, nearly equal-sided, 

 subentire, auricled on the upper side at the base, somewhat imbricated 

 over the rachis, the auricle revolute, spur-shaped ; those of the upper 

 plane 'A as long, ascending, ovate-oblong, cuspidate, falcate, subentire, 

 oblique, and produced on the outer side at the base, imbricate. Spikes 

 short, square, 4 — 5 mm. long; sporophylla adpressed, keeled, cuspidate; 



macrospores finely ruguloso-reticulate ; microspores 



Philippines. 



(75) S. ar;;entea, Spring, Mon., II, 154; S. trinervia, Spring, 

 1. c, 125 (t. Hier.); S. caulescens, Spring, var. argentea, Bk., Fern AIL, 

 95; Lycopodium argenteum, Wall., Cat., No. 127. 



Shoots ascending or erect from a trailing base, 15—30 cm. long, the 

 lower part simple, stramineous, obtusely quadrangular, the upper part 

 decompound, deltoid in outline; branches subspreading ; pinnulae simple 

 or somewhat compound; branchlets 2 — 3 mm. broad including the lateral 

 leaves. Leaves of the stipe minute, erect, lanceolate, scale-like, entire except 

 at the produced base ; leaves of the branches heteromorphous ; of the 

 lower plane contiguous, subspreading, subfalcate-lanceolate, acute or sub- 

 acute, indistinctly spuriously nerved, the upper side obsoletely denticulate 

 towards the apex, denticulate towards the base, ciliolate at the rounded 

 base, pellucid-margined in the lower half, the lower side entire or sub- 

 entire, ciliolate at the subcordate-truncate base, the largest leaves 2 'A mm. 

 long and 1 'A mm. broad ; of the ultimate branchlets similar but smaller, 

 more ascending, to I'A mm. long, relatively narrower, less copiously 

 ciliolate at the lower base; leaves of the upper plane erect, imbricate, 

 acute-ovate, cuspidate or aristate, serrulate, pellucid-margined, rounded or 

 cordate at the base, the outer base a little produced. Spikes short, square, 

 1 mm. diam. ; sporophylla ovate, acute, pellucid-margined, serrulate, keeled. 



Malacca, Celebes (t. Christ.). 



(76) S. Cirtrnthli, Spring, Mon., II, 151; Bk., Fern AIL, 96; 

 S. brevipes, A. Br., Hieron. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., T, 680. 



