194 103. SELAGINELLA. A\ MONOSTELICAE. b*. BRACHYSTACHYAE. 



(165) S. brachyfitlachya, Spring, Mon., II, 255; Bk., Fern All., 

 113; Lycopodium brachystackyum, Hk. <& Grev., Bot. Misc., Add. & Covr., 

 107; — var. ornata, Bk., Fern AIL, 118, p. p.; S. omata, Spring, 1. c, 

 259; L. ormtum, Hk. d: Grev., 1. c, 108. 



Shoots reaching 30 — 45 cm. in length, copiously compound, generally 

 assurgent from a decumbent base, the stem unequally quadrangular, 

 sulcate down the face and sides, the branching midway between pinnate 

 and flabellate, the branchlets 4 — 5 mm. broad including the lateral leaves. 

 Leaves of the lower plane contiguous on the branchlets, spaced on the 

 stem, black-green, spreading, rhomboid-oblong, 4 — S'A mm. long, rather 

 straight, hardly falcate, obtuse, subentire, much dilated, broadly rounded 

 and much imbricated over the stem on the upper side at the base, 

 narrowed and adnate on the lower side; leaves of the upper plane much 

 smaller, ovate, subentire, keeled, rounded and nearly equal-sided at the 

 base, aristate-cuspidate, incurvate-falcate. Spikes 6 — 12 'A mm. long, S'A 

 mm. broad; sporophylla of the upper plane ovate-oblong, blunt, keeled, 

 entire; those of the lower plane 'A as long, ascending, deltoid, long- 

 acuminate, spinuloso-denticulate, keeled; macrospores pale-yellow, iinely 

 verruculose to rugulose on the basal side; microspores reddish, tuber- 

 culato-verruculose. 



Forma typica: — South India., Ceylon. 



War. ornata: Leaves smaller; of the lower plane slightly falcate,, 

 denticulate, less broadly rounded, not niuch imbricated over the rachis 

 on the upper side at the base ; of the upper plane mucronate, denticulate ; 

 spikes longer, narrower, subquadrangular; sporophylla less dimorphous, 

 those of the upper plane more acute. — Java, Sumatra. 



(166) S. fiiiibriata, Spring, Mon., II, 258; S. brachyptachya. 

 Spring, var. ornata, Bk., Fern All, 113, p. p. 



Shoots erect, or ascending from a decumbent base, reaching 30 cm. 

 or more in length, the stem stramineous, obtusely quadrangular, convex 

 on the face and back, slightly grooved down the sides; pinnae erecto- 

 patent, pinnate; pinnulae simple or forked; ultimate branchlets 3 — 5 mm. 

 broad including the lateral leaves. Leaves heteromorphous ; leaves of the 

 lower plane rather spaced on the stem, more approximate to contiguous 

 on the branchlets, rather spreading, iirm, dark above, paler beneath; of 

 the main rachis the largest, elongate-oblong, 3 — 5 mm. long, to 2 mm. 

 broad, hardly falcate, bluntish or subacute, cordate-emarginate at the 



