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decumbent. Leaves of the lower plane close, rhomboid-oblong, spreading, 

 obtuse, copiously ciliated, with the upper base produced, cordate; leaves 

 of the upper plane '4 as long, ascending, ovate, conspicuously mucronate. 

 Spikes slender, square; sporophylla uniform, ovate, small. 

 Malacca. 



S. pinan^ensis, Spring, Mon., II, 205; Bk., Fern All., 67. 



Shoots trailing, to 45 cm. long, closely pinnate, the main rachis very 

 slender, sulcate on the face; central pinnae pinnate with 3 — 4 short, 

 contiguous branchlets. Leaves of the lower plane close on both stem 

 and branches, spreading, subdiaphanous, dark-green above, yellow-glittering 

 beneath, ovate-oblong or subrhomboidal, 2 — SVa mm. long, subobtuse, 

 nearly equal-sided, rounded or subcordate on both sides at the base, 

 dilated and a little imbricated over the rachis on the upper side, with 

 a distinct midrib, ciliated through the lower half on the upper side; leaves 

 of the upper plane oblique-ovate, suborbicular, Vs — 'A as long, with a cusp 

 nearly as long as the blade, ciliated, white-margined. Spikes square, 

 2V2 — 7V2 mm. long, IV4 mm. diam.; sporophylla ovate, acute, pale-margined, 

 keeled. 



Penang; Assam. 



a'*. Ascendentes. 



S. barbata, Spt^wg, Mon., II, 240, p. p.; Bk., Fern All., 74; 

 Ltjcopodium barbafMm, Klf., Enum., 18. 



Shoots suberect, 15 cm. long, copiously pinnate, the stem angled on 

 the face, the close, erecto-patent pinnae copiously compound. Leaves soon 

 heteromorphous ; of the lower plane close on the branches, spaced on tlie 

 stem, ascending, bright-green, moderately firm, ovate, 2V2 mm. long, acute, 

 nearly equal-sided, subfalcate, serriilate, pale-margined, broadly rounded 

 and ciliated on both sides at the base, imbricated over the rachis; of the 

 upper plane 'A as long, oblique-ovate, acute or acuminate, pale-margined, 

 serrulate-denticulate, obliquely cordate at the base, the outer base produced, 

 long-ciliated. Spikes square, to 7V2 mm. long, 2V2 mm. diam.; sporophylla 

 deltoid, crowded, long-acuminate, serrulate, soon spreading or spuarrose. 



Philippines. 



