103. SELAGINELLA. A'. MONOSTfiLICAE. b'. INTERTEXTAE. 161 



(116) S. eurycephala, ir«r*., Mons., I, 124. 



Shoots very short, 4 — 5 cm. long, the main rachis slender, 'A mm. 

 thick, yellowish, the branches spreading, 1 — 2 cm. long, sparingly branched, 

 the branchlots short. Leaves of the lower plane spreading; of the main 

 rachis remote, ovate, 'A — 'A mm. long, pale, nearly obtuse, rounded at 

 the base, hardly obUque, the margin minutely piloso-denticulate; 'leaves 

 of the upper plane erect; of the main rachis broadly lanceolate, acute or 

 shortly cuspidate, minutely ciliolate-denticulate; leaves of the branchlets 

 similar to those of the main rachis, hardly shorter, moderately distant. 

 Spikes 4 mm. long, 2Vj mm. broad; sporophylla of the upper plane 7 — 8 

 on a side, subhorizontal, hardly imbricate, narrowly lanceolate, more than 

 1 mm. long, Vs mm. broad, keeled beneath, the upper side and the keel 

 hardly denticulate; those of the lower plane shorter, suberect, ovate, very 

 acute, pale, ciliate at the edge; macrospores bright-yellow, with very 

 minute conical or papilliform projections; microspores reddish, verruculose, 

 the projections free or confluent. 



Celebes. 



(117) S. lyensifS, Miefon., Engl. Bot. Jahrb., XLIV, 514. 



Shoots caespitose, repeatedly dichotomous, the stems subterete, rather 

 compressed, decumbent, the rachises 3 mm., the branchlets 2 V? mm. broad 

 including the lateral leaves. Leaves crowded; leaves of the lower plane 

 very unequal-sided, much produced on the upper side, obliquo-ovate, sub- 

 acuminate, pale-green, minutely piloso-denticulate towards the apex, the 

 upper side ciliate in the lower half, rounded at the base, the lower side 

 very minutely denticulate, rotundate-truncate at the base, both sides 

 pellucid-margined, the largest leaves V/i mm. long, "A mm. broad; leaves 

 of the upper plane rather unequal-sided, ovate, subaristate-acuminate, 

 pellucid-margined on both sides, very minutely denticulate, the outer 

 base subcordate, the inner base rounded, the largest leaves Vh mm. long, 

 V* mm. broad. Spikes '/j_i cm. long, 2 mm. broad; sporophylla of the 

 upper plane unequal-sided, narrowly pale-margined, keeled, piloso-denticulate 

 to ciliate, the largest 2 mm. long, 1 mm. broad ; sporophylla of the lower 

 plane equal-sided, pale-margined, ciliolate, keeled, 2 mm. long, I'A mm. 

 broad; macrospores yellow or whitish, nearly smooth, indistinctly and 

 minutely rugulose; microspores dirty-orange-coloured, minutely punctulate- 

 verruculose on the basal side. 

 .Borneo. 

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