154 103. SELAGINELLA. A'. MONOSTELICAE. a«. PUBESCENTES. 



slender, 'A — 1 mm. diam., the sporophylla ovate, acuminate, minutely 

 denticulate, keeled, the microspores verruculose. 

 Neio Guinea. 



(109) S. lunrosensis, ». A. v. R., Bull. Btz., 1911, I, 19. 

 Shoots erect from a decumbent base, 30 — 45 cm. long, the lower 



part simple, stramineous, 2 — 3-sulcate down the face, deciduously hairy, 

 the upper part pinnate, oblong in outline, 20 — 30 cm. long, 6 — 10 cm. 

 broad, acuminate; pinnae ascending, oblong, to 10 cm. long; pinnulae 

 simple or forked, or the largest pinnate, ascending; branchlets 1—3 cm. 

 long, 3 — 5 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; rachises distinctly but not 

 densely hairy beneath. Leaves of the stipe and lower part of the main rachis 

 distant, erect, adpressed, isomorphous, ovate, 2^2 mm. long, acuminate, 

 entire, cordate on the outer side at the base; leaves of the branched 

 portion heteromorphous, thin, flaccid; leaves of the lower plane approximate 

 on the branchlets, rather spaced on the main rachis; those of the main 

 rachis rather ascending, lanceolate-oblong, falcate, the largest 5 mm. long 

 and 2 mm. broad, bluntish, minutely denticulate" on the upper edge 

 towards the base, slightly dilated on the upper side, moderately distinctly 

 spuriously veined, with the upper base cuneate, the lower base obliquely 

 truncate; those of the branchlets similar, 2 — 3 mm. long, Vz as broad, 

 blunter, the lower base provided with — 4 short ciliae; leaves of the 

 upper plane erect, ovate, acuminate, cuspidate, entire, keeled, cordate 

 and produced on the outer side at the base; those of the main rachis 

 distant, to 3 mm. long, somewhat incurvate-falcate ; those of the branchlets 

 more close, rather straight, to 2 mm. long. Spikes nearly square, Vk — 2 

 mm. diam.; sporophylla ascending, ovate-subulate, acute, minutely den- 

 ticulate, keeled, those on the ventral side the longest, to 2 mm. long; 

 macrospores rugulose, with the apical ribs surrounded by a ring-like 

 crown; microspores provided with capitate or subcylindrical projections. 

 Celebes. 



(110) S. waricnsis, Uieron.^ in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., L, 19. 

 Shoots erect, probably 50 cm. or more long, the lower part simple, 



compressed, convex on the face and back, nearly honey-yellow, between 

 opaque and glossy, more or less pubescent, to 4 mm. thick, the upper 

 part laxly 3 — 4-pinnate, rotundate-ovate in outline, the rachises more or 

 less pubescent, the stem 10— 12Vj mm. broad including the lateralleaves; 



