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



broad ; sporophylla of the upper plane spreading, lanceolate-ovate, somewhat 

 recurved, to I'a mm. long, acute, keeled, the upper side very narrowly 

 pellucid-margined, sparingly minutely denticulate towards the apex, 

 sparingly ciliolate towards the base; of the lower plane suberect, ovate, 

 acutely acuminate, hardly keeled, spai'ingly ciUate, the apex very sparingly 

 denticulate ; macrospores yellow or yellow- white, very minutely vorruculose, 

 apparently smooth or nearly so; microspores minium-rod or orange, smooth. 

 New Guinea. 



(131) S. Biai'bid^ci, nu.. Fern AIL, 106, p. p. 



Shoots trailing, the stem slender, stramineous, intermatted, angled 

 on the face, copiously branched, the distant, erecto-patent branches 

 sparingly compound. Leaves of the lower plane spaced even on the 

 branches, spreading on the stem, erecto-patent on the branchlets, broadly 

 cordate-ovate, 2 — 2V2 mm. long, subacute, bright-green, rather firm, strongly 

 ciliated and much imbricated over the rachis on the upper side at the 

 base; leaves of the upper plane V2 as long, cordate-ovate, shortly cuspidate. 

 Spikes I'A — 2V2 cm. long, 2 'A mm. broad; sporophylla of the upper plane 

 nearly spreading, oblique-lanceolate, acute; those of the lower plane 

 ascending, very different, ovate-lanceolate, long-cuspidate, strongly keeled 

 and ciliated. 



Borneo. 



(132) ^. liUiitei'bacliii. Mieron., in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., L, 31. 

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



part, the main and secondary rachises hardly more than 2 'A mm. broad 

 including the lateral leaves; pinnae 'A— IV^ cm. long, simple or forked, 

 or the lower rarely pinnate; ultimate branchlets V/i — 2 mm. broad. 

 Lateral leaves of- principal rachises remote, spreading, unequal-sided, 

 ovate-oblong, blunt or bluntish, pellucid-margined, the upper side sparingly 

 obsoletely denticulate in the upper part, gradually loosely ciliate towards 

 to the rotundate base, the lower side sparingly obsoletely denticulate, 

 subcordate at the base, the largest leaves 2 mm. long by 1 mm. broad; 

 lateral leaves of the branchlets smaller, more ascending, less remote, to 

 1 mm. long and Va mm. broad; intermedial leaves erect; of the principal 

 rachises distant, nearly equal-sided, ovate, subacuminate, very narrowly 

 pellucid-margined, loosely minutely denticulate, the outer base shortly 

 cordate-auriculate, the inner base rotundate-cuneate, the largest leaves 



