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the upper base ciliolate, the lower provided with — 6 short ciliae; of 

 the ultimate branchlets similar, crowded, 2 mm. long, hardly acute, 

 subtruncate-rotundate at the base, the jipper base very minutely serrulate, 

 the lower entire or hardly ciliolate; leaves of the upper plane erect, 

 oblong; of the main rachis acuminate to shortly cuspidate, more or less 

 minutely denticulate, or entire towards the base, somewhat keeled, the 

 base cordate or semicordate like in the leaves of the lower plane and 

 more or less ciliolate; of the ultimate branchlets smaller, shortly cuspidate 

 or acuminate, entire, rotundate-cuneate on the inner side at the base, 

 produced and rotundate to cordate on the outer side. Spikes square, to 

 20 mm. long, 1 mm. diam. ; sporophylla broadly ovate, acute, keeled, 

 minutely denticulate; macrospores yellowish-white, more or less rugulose 

 or reticulate, the apical ribs encircled by a crest-shaped ring; microspores 

 yellowish or whitish, provided with conical projections on the basal side. 



Forma typica. — Java^ Sumatra. 



War. capitata : Microspores provided with sessile or short-stalked 

 capitate projections. — Java (?). 



Var. granditscapia : Large plants; shoots 40 — 60 cm. long, 

 the branches proportionally larger; stipes 3 — 4 mm. thick; ultimate 

 branchlets narrower, 2 — 2 'A mm. broad including the lateral leaves which 

 are Vk mm. long and more distinctly ciliolate-denticulate on the upper 

 edge in the lower half; microspores as in var. capitata. — Sumatra. 



(78) S. ptcriphyllos, Spring, Mon., II, 162; Bk., Fern All., 95; 

 S. myosuroides, Pr., Abh. Boehm. Ges., Ill, 581. 



Shoots erect, to 30 cm. long, simple in the lower part, deltoid and 

 decompound in the upper part; lower pinnae deltoid, 3-pinnate; ultimate 

 branchlets to 8V2 mm. long, VU mm. broad including the lateral leaves. 

 Leaves of the stipe decussate, remote, ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, semi- 

 cordate and ciliate at the base, the auricle incurvate-hamate ; leaves of the 

 branches heteromorphous ; leaves of the lower plane erecto-patent, lanceolate- 

 oblong, acute, contiguous only on the ultimate branchlets, dark-green 

 above, pale-glittering beneath, moderately firm, nearly equal-sided, narrowed 

 from the middle to the base, the upper edge serrulate towards the apex, 

 gradually ciliate towards the rotundate-cuneate base, the lower edge 

 entire, or sparingly ciliate at the base; of the main rachis remote, 2 mm. 

 long by 1 mm. broad; of the branchlets bluntish, I'A— r/2 mm. long; 

 leaves of the upper plane to V2 as long, erect, obovate, short-cuspidate, 

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