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6 — 7 mm. broad. Leaves of the stem erect, adpressed, lanceolate- 

 oblong, bluntish; leaves of the branches dark-green; of the lower plane 

 lanceolate-oblong, subfalcate, pale-margined on the upper side, entire, 

 oblique at the base, upper base rounded, lower nearly auricled; of the 

 upper plane adpressed, lanceolate, subacute, pellucid-dotted, pale-margined, 

 auricled on the outer side at the base. Spikes VU — 2 'A cm. long, acute, 

 square; sporophylla spreading, triangular-ovate, entire, albo-marginate, 

 bluntly acuminate. 



Neic Guinea, Moti Island. 



(182) S. Ifallichii, Spring, Mon., II, 143; Bk., Fern AIL, 90; 

 S. Wallichii, Spring, var. elegans & var. serieea, Warb., Mens., I, 106; 

 Lycopodium Wallichii, Hk. & Grev., Enum. Fil., No. 106; — var. megalura; 

 S. Wallichii, Spring, var. typica & var. macroura, Warb., 1. c. ; S. megalura, 

 Hieron., in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., P, 702; — var. Walkeri, v. A. v. R., 

 Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 51. 



Shoots suberect, 45—90 cm. long, the lower part simple, the stem 

 3-stelical, the upper part pinnate; pinnae lanceolate, 10 — 30 cm. long, the 

 invariably simple pinnulae crowded, erecto-patent, 1 — 6 cm. long, 3 — 6 

 mm. broad including the lateral leaves, the terminal ones sometimes much 

 elongated. Leaves of the stem very remote, more or less isomorphous; 

 leaves of the branches heteromorphous ; leaves of the lower plane spreading; 

 of the main rachis remote; of the branchlets crowded, lanceolate-oblong, 

 VU — S'A mm. long, to 2 mm. broad, subfalcate, spreading, obscurely 

 petiolulate, dark above, pale-glittering beneath, entire, the lower side 

 truncate or slightly cordate at the base, the upper side rotundate-cuneate 

 to slightly cordate; leaves of the upper plane '/« — V* as. long, falcate-oblong, 

 mucronate-acuminate, obliquely cordate to rotundate-cuneate at the base, 

 imbricate. Spikes square, terminal, 1 or rarely 2 on a pinnulae, to 6 cm. 

 long, 2 — 2V2 mm. diara.; sporophylla ovate, mucronate-acuminate, entire, 

 keeled. • 



Forma typica: Pinnulae 1 — 3 cm. long; spikes to 1 cm. long; macro- 

 spores yellowish-white, verruculose; microspores finely foveolate on the 

 basal side, provided with an equatorial ring consisting of tuberculiform 

 projections. — Malacca; Br. India, Assam. 



War. uiegalura: Pinnulae 1 — 3 cm. long; spikes 1 — 2 cm. 

 long; macrospores brown, slightly white-glaucous, rugulose to reticulate; 

 microspbres finely verruculose, nearly smooth. — Borneo; Assam. 



