103. SELAGINELLA. A'. MONOSTELICAE. b'. INTEETEXTAE. 169 



the largest 1 mm. long; microspores orange or miuium-red, smooth; 



macrospores 



New Guiwq. 



(129) S. subfitpinuloiia, Spring, in PI. Jungh., 277; S. spinulosa, 

 Bk. (not Spring)^ Feni AIL, 64, et passim. 



Shoots trailing, 2 'A— 5 cm. long, little branched, the stem very 

 slender; branches simple or slightly branched again; ultimate branchlets 

 very short, 1 — Vl-i mm. broad including the lateral leaves. Leaves 

 heteromorphous; lateral leaves spaced even on the ultimate branchlets, 

 subspreadiug, oblong-ovate; of the main rachis to Vk mm. long, '/» as 

 broad, straight, blunt or bluntish, nearly keeled, the upper side sparingly 

 ciliate, rounded at the base, the lower side entire or denticulate; inter- 

 medial leaves erect, 'A as large, subequilateral, ovate-oblong, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, spinuloso-denticulate. Spikes to 4 mm. long, nearly 

 square; sporophylla ovate, ciliate, keeled; of the upper plane unequal- 

 sided, much the broadest on the upper (inner) side, bluntish ; of the lower 

 plane equal-sided, acute; macrospores yellow, nearly smooth; microspores 

 reddish, smooth. 



Java. 



(130) S. l¥einlandii, Miermm., in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., L, 29. 

 Shoots creeping, the lower part dichotomous, the upper part pinnate, 



the stem compresso-terete, yellow-groen, to Vs mm. thick, the main 

 rachis 2V2 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; higher pinnae simple 

 or forked, to 2 cm. long, lower pinnate; ultimate branchlets 1 — 10 mm. 

 long, 1 — IV2 mm. broad. Lateral leaves remote on both stem and 

 branches; of the stem nearly horizontal or spreading, ovate, blunt or 

 bluntish, nearly equal-sided, hardly pellucid-margined, rounded at the 

 base, the upper side sparingly ciliated in the lower half, very minutely 

 denticulate in the upper part, the lower side very minutely denticulate 

 except in the lower 'A, the largest leaves VU mm. long and 'A mm. 

 broad; of the branchlets smaller, to 1 mm. long, more ascending; inter- 

 medial leaves erect, ovate, nearly straight; of the stem shortly aristate- 

 acuminate, sparingly ciliate, very sparingly denticulate at the apex, 

 obliquely rounded at the base, the outer base somewhat produced, the 

 largest leaves 1 mm. long; of the branchlets smaller, subacute. Spikes 

 solitary and terminal on the branchlets, 2— 2 'A mm. long by I'A— 2 mm. 



