224 103. SEIiAGINELLA. Al PLEIOSTELICAfi. 



cordate-truncate, the largest leaves 4 mm. long, IV2 mm. broad; inter- 

 medial leaves erect; of the stem remote, ovate-oblong, 2 mm. long, blunt; 

 of the branchlets close, falcate-oblong, bluntly and shortly acuminate, the 

 inner side straight, the outer side rounded, the base obliquely adnate, 

 rather decurrent on the outer side. Spikes terminal, IV2 — 2 mm. diam.; 

 sporophylla broadly triangular-ovate, subacute or bluntish, entire, hardly 

 keeled; macrospores white, grey or brown, verrucose, the projections 

 roundish or shortly linear, rather low, the apical ribs encircled by 2 rows 

 of much higher projections; microspores whitish or yellowish, densely 

 verrucose, the projections roundish, free or connected. — Accessory shoots 

 articulated at the base and springing from the axils of the pinnae. 

 Java. 



(202) S. padangciisis, Hiet-on., Hedwi., L, 34. 



Shoots ascending from a creeping base, the lower part simple, 

 sparingly foliate, the upper part compound, ovate or obovate, the stem 

 grooved, 5— 7-stelical, to 6 mm. thick, puberulous, at length glabrescent 

 and smooth or minutely tuberculato-asperous, stramineous; pinnae often 

 distinctly articulated to the main rachis, branched from the base, the rachis 

 9 mm. broad including the lateral leaves; lower pinnulae sub-2-pinnate, 

 higher repeatedly dichotomous or simply forked; branches of the lower 

 pinnulae pinnately or dichotomously branched; ultimate branchlets to 6 

 mm. broad. Lateral leaves of the stem unequal-sided, subfalcate-ovate, sub- 

 acute, more or less narrowly pellucid-margined on both sides, entire, 

 obliquely cordate at the base, the largest leaves 2V2 mm. long, IV3 mm. 

 broad ; of the branches obliquely falcate-oblong, subacute or subobtuse, the 

 upper base auricled, rounded, the auricle revolute, diaphanous, the lower 

 base cordate to truncate, the margin bounded by a narrow, decoloured 

 Une on both sides, the largest leaves 5 mm. long, IV2 mm. broad near the 

 base, those of the branchlets Va— V2 as long; intermedial leaves of the stem 

 subfalcate-ovate, subobtuse, entire, narrowly pellucid-margined, the inner 

 base rounded, the outer base subauriculate-cordate, the largest leaves 

 3 mm. long; of the branches falcate-ovate, equal-sided, the outer base 

 decurrent or adnate-auriculate, the inner base subtruncate-rotundate, the 

 apex short-bluntish, the margin bounded by a narrow, decoloured line, the 

 largest leaves 2Vj mm. long, hardly 1 mm. broad at the middle. Spikes 

 square, 5—16 mm. long, V'2 mm. diam., solitary on the branchlets; 

 sporophylla subdeltoid, shortly acutely mucronate, pale-green, keeled, the 



