103. SELAGINELLA. A'. MONOSTELICAE. b'. INTERTEXTAE. 167 



hardly produced on tho outer side; those of the branchlets similar but 

 smaller, approximate or contiguous, keeled. Spikes solitary on the 

 branchlets, straight, curved or flexuose, ^U — 2 'A cm. long, 2 'A mm. broad; 

 sporophylla of the upper plane ascending, close or approximate, the higher 

 somewhat imbricated, narrowly lanceolate, subfalcate, obscurely acuminate, 

 more or less distinctly denticulate, conspicuously keeled, the keel ciliated 

 towards the base ; those of the lower plane erected, imbricated, lanceolate- 

 ovate, subcuspidate (long-acuminate), ciliated, keeled; macrospores whitish, 



smooth or nearly so (obsoletely rugulose); microspores 



Batw Island. 



(126) S. baiiCHiia, iFafA., Mons., I, 126. 



Shoots trailing, repeatedly forked, rather caespitose ; secondary shoots 

 4 — 7 cm. long, with the main rachis Vs mm. thick, yellowish when dry; 

 pinnae remote, IVs — 2 cm. long, sparingly branched; branchlets 1 cm. 

 long, I'A mm. broad. Leaves of the main rachis remote, firm; of the 

 lower plane spreading, broadly ovate, very unequal-sided, 1 — 2 mm. long, 

 obtuse, dilated, rounded, denticulate to ciliolate and imbricated over the 

 rachis on the upper side at the base; of the upper plane erect, ovate, 

 shortly cuspidate, denticulate, nearly keeled; leaves of the branchlets 

 similar to those of the main rachis but smaller, more close, often imbricate. 

 Spikes single or double, 4 — 6 mm. long, Vk — 2 mm. broad; sporophylla 

 of the upper plane erecto-patent, ovate-lanceolate, imbricate, acute, ciliolate, 

 keeled ; of the lower plane hardly smaller, ascending, lanceolate, cuspidate- 

 acuminate, spinuloso-ciliate ; macrospores pale-yellow, smooth or nearly 

 so; microspores bright-yellow, smooth. 



Banca. 



(127) ». kariiim^ae, t>. A. v. »., Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 48; 

 S. Burbidgei, Bk., Fern All., 106, p. p. 



Shoots trailing, to 10 cm. long, pinnate, or forked at the base with 

 pinnate secondary shoots, the main rachis stramineous, 'A mm. thick, 

 2 — 3 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; pinnae remote, alternate, 

 erecto-patent, to 2 cm. long, the largest forked, the smallest simple; 

 ultimate branchlets to I'A cm. long, to 2 mm. broad. Leaves hetero- 

 morphous; lateral leaves remote even on the branchlets, erecto-patent, 

 very unequal-sided, nearly semiovate; of the main rachis IVa — 1*4 mm. 

 long-, 1— I'A mm. broad, acute or subacute, entire, or very minutely 



