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Spring, 1. c, 160; Bk., Fern All., 95, p. p.; S. flabellata. Spring, Bk., 1. c, 

 98, p. p.; ? S. debilis, Ces., Fel. Becc. Polin., 6; Lycopodium cupressinum, 

 Willd., Spec, V, 42; — var. anceps; S. anceps, Pr., Abh. Boehm. Ges., 

 Ill, 581. 



Shoots 30 — 60 cm. or more long, erect or ascending from a trailing 

 base, the lower part simple, stipitiform, obtusely quadrangular, the upper 

 part docompound, ovate or deltoid in outline: lower pinnae erecto-patent 

 or spreading, ovate or deltoid, 2 — 4-pinnate, to 15 cm. or more long, the 

 contiguous final branchlets to 10 mm. long, IV4 — 2 mm. broad including 

 the lateral leaves. Leaves of the stipe isomorphous, decussate, remote, 

 ovate-lanceolate or triangular-oblong, erect, adpressed, acute, ciliolate or 

 denticulate, cordate at the base; leaves of the branches heteromorphous, 

 crowded ; leaves of the lower plane ascending ; of the secondary rachises 

 lanceolate-oblong, to 2V2 mm. long, bluntish or acute, nearly equal-sided, 

 the lower ones cordate at the base, entire, but the upper side ciliate or 

 ciliolate-denticulate in the lower half, the lower side provided with — 6 

 ciliae at the base; of the branchlets to VU mm. long, more narrowly 

 rotundate on the upper side and rather truncate-cuneate on the lower 

 side at the base, less copiously denticulate-ciliolate ; leaves of the upper 

 plane erect, Vs — 'A as long, oblique-oblong, acute, entire or somewhat 

 denticulate, the base produced on the outer side ; of the secondary rachises 

 remote or subcontiguous, auriculate-cordate and provided with 0—4 ciliae 

 on the outer side at the base; of the branchlets similar but the outer 

 base more rotundate. Spikes square, 5 — 40 mm. long, I'm mm. diam.; 

 sporophylla ovate, acuminate, keeled, entire or serrulate. 



Forma typica: Macrospores whitish, irregularly verruculose-rugulose ; 

 microspores yellow, provided with sessile or stipitate-capitate projections 

 on the basal side. 



Wav. anceps: Macrospores yellowish, reticulate-rugulose ; micro- 

 spores minium-red, prickly. 



Borneo and the Philippines to New Guinea, Sumhaica (? Golfs No. VII). 



(95) S. Icytensfs, Jltero«., Fed., Rep., X, 43. 



Shoots erect, 30—40 cm. long, or longer, the lower part simple, 

 obtusely quadrangular, subterete, smooth, dirty-stramineous, hardly more 

 than IV4 mm. thick, the upper part decompound, ovate in outline; largest 

 pinnae lanceolate or ovate; lower pinnulae pinnate or dichotomous, central 

 ones one or more times forked; ultimate branchlets Vk mm. broad 



