103. SELAGINELLA. A'. MONOSTELICAE. a'. CAULESCENTES. 133 



rotundate-cuneate, the outer base produced, cordate. Spikes square, 1—2 

 cm. long, 1—1 Va mm. diam.; sporophylla isomorphous, erecto-patent, ovate, 

 acute, keeled, entire or very minutely denticulate, the largest Vk mm. 

 long; macrospores pale-orange, yellowish or whitish, irregularly rugulose 

 or reticulate on the basal side, the apical ribs encircled by a ring-shaped 

 crest; microspores yellowish or whitish, provided with conical, tuber- 

 culiform, capitate, stipitate-capitate or bacilliform projections on the 

 basal side. 



Forma typica. — Sumatra to the Andamans. 



War. borneenisiii : Leaves of the lower plane more falcate, 

 more acute; of the upper plane acuminate. — Borneo. 



War. cilia! a: Leaves of the lower plane strongly ciliated at the 

 base ; of the upper plane acuminate. — Borneo. 



War. spicndifla: Leaves of the lower plane (of the branchlets) 

 rather sparingly, minutely denticulate (not ciliolate) on the upper side at 

 the base. — Sumatra. 



(83) S. lalifroiis, Warb., Mons., I, 120. 



Shoots erect, BO — 70 cm. long, the lower part simple, terete, 2V2 — 3V2 

 mm. thick, yellowish when dry, the upper (larger) part branched, broadly 

 ovate ; branches copious, the lower to 20 cm. long, decompound, the higher 

 pinnate, 2 — 4 cm. long; branchlets 1 — 2 cm. long, 3 — 6 mm. broad 

 including the lateral leaves. Leaves of the stem adpressed, ovate, 4 ram. 

 long, acute, truncate at the base; leaves of the branches heteromorphous; 

 leaves of the lower plane spreading, contiguous, very oblique, subfalcate- 

 ovate; of the secondary rachises to 6 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, dark- 

 green above, pale and glittering beneath, not ciUate, subacute, the upper 

 side very minutely denticulate, broadly rounded and subbullate at the 

 base ; of the branchlets lanceolate-falcate, entire, rotundate-cuneate at the 

 base, rather spuriously veined, 3 — 4 mm. long; leaves of the upper plane 

 erect; of the secondary rachises ovate, 3 mm. long, cuspidate-acuminate, 

 the inner side very minutely denticulate, cuneate at the base, the outer 

 side entire, auriculate-cordate at the base, keeled ; of the branchlets 

 .similar, shorter, the outer base slightly produced, rounded. . Spikes 8—12 

 mm. long, 2 mm. diam.; sporophylla ovate, Vl-i mm. long, acuminate, 

 minutely denticulate, keeled, glittering; macrospores yellow- white, rugulose; 

 microspores with conical projections on the basal half. 



Luzon. 



