103. SELAGINELLA. A\ MONOSTELICAE. b'. INTERTEXTAE. 159 



sparingly pinnate in the upper part, the stem Vs mm. thick, compresso- 

 terete, 2 — 3 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; pinnae 1 — 3V2 cm. 

 long, the higher simple, the lower more or less dichotomous or subpinnate 

 with 1 — 8 pinnulae on a side; ultimate branchlets 1 — 2 mm. broad. 

 Leaves heteromorphous, glaucous-green above ; lateral leaves subequilateral, 

 broadly ovate, blunt, very minutely apiculate, somewhat spuriously veined, 

 the upper side subentire or minutely denticulate towards the apex, 

 ciliolate in the lower part, the lower side entire or minutely denticulate; 

 of the stem remote, ascending, IV4 — IV2 mm. long, nearly as broad; of 

 the ultimate branchlets smaller, close; intermedial leaves, ovate, sub- 

 aristate-acuminate, narrowly pellucid-margined, the inner side ciliolate, 

 the outer side sparingly so at the base, the base obliquely rounded, or 

 subcordate-truncate on the outer side. Spikes solitary, V2 — 2 cm. long, 

 1— r/4 mm. broad in the lower part; sporophylla of the upper plane very 

 inequilateral, oblique-ovate, hardly IV4 mm. long, minutely apiculate- 

 acuminate, sparingly ciliolate, keeled, more or less pellucid-margined on 

 the upper side; of the lower plane equal-sided, ovate, 'A mm. long, 

 shortly acuminate, ciliate; macrospores yellow, coarsely verrucose to sub- 

 rugose on the basal side; microspores orange or carmine-red, verrucose 

 on the basal side. 

 Borneo. 



(113) S. aliiiacea, Spring, Mon., II, 237; Bk., Fern All., 110; - 

 var. sphaerophylla, Bk., 1. c. 111. 



Shoots trailing, caespitose, under 10 cm. long, forked low down, 

 copiously pinnate; pinnae erecto-patent, the lower repeatedly dichotomous. 

 Leaves of the lower plane spaced on the stem, spreading, broadly ovate, 

 2V2 mm. long, rather acute, moderately firm, very unequal-sided, ciliate 

 on the upper side towards the base, denticulate on the lower side ; leaves 

 of the upper plane much smaller, cordate-ovate, aristate-acuminate, ciliolate. 

 Spikes copious, TA— 2V2 cm. long, 2V2 mm. broad, sometimes forked; 

 sporophylla of the upper plane erecto-patent, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 ciliate; of the lower plane imbricate, ovate, long-acuminate, ciliate, 

 keeled. 



\ar, S|ihacro|iliylla : Leaves of the lower plane smaller, 

 crowded, suborbicular, firmer, concave on the face; spikes narrower, the 

 sporophylla less dimorphous. 



Penan^. 



