^28 103. selaginella. indei'initae. 



S. Siiberecto, BU,, Fern AIL, 74; S. barbata, Spring, Mon., II, 

 204, p. p.; S. caulescens. Spring, p. p. (t. Warb.). 



Shoots suberect, 15 — 25 cm. long, little branched in the lower Va, 

 copiously branched upwards with crowded, ascending, very compound 

 branches, the stem rounded on the back, acutely angled on the face. 

 Leaves of the lower plane crowded and much imbricated on the branchlets, 

 nearly contiguous on the stem, ascending, oblique-ovate, 2 — 3 'A mm long, 

 acute, bright-green, moderately iirm, more produced and ciliolate on the 

 upper side, very cordate and much imbricated over the rachis on the 

 upper side at the base; leaves of the upper plane as long, oblique-ovate, 

 cuspidate, much imbricated on the branchlets. Spikes 



Malacca; China. 



S. Muelleri, me., Fern All., 94. 



Shoots erect, 15 — 20 cm. long, simple in the lower part, decompound 

 upwards; pinnae crowded, deltoid; final branchlets close, erecto-patent, 

 V/t — 2 mm. broad including the lateral leaves. Leaves of the lower plane 

 ascending, rather imbricated on the branchlets, ovate-lanceolate, I'A — 2 

 mm. long, bright-green, moderately firm in texture, rounded on both sides 

 at the base, the midrib central, the margin white, denticulate, not 

 anywhere distinctly ciliated; leaves of the upper plane much imbricated, 

 V2 as long, oblique-ovate, cuspidate. Spikes short; sporophylla ovate, as 

 long as the leaves of the lower plane, cuspidate. — A fragment of Armit's 

 original plant, occurring in the Buitenzorg Herbarium, has the ultimate 

 branchlets under 1 mm. broad, with the lateral leaves at best 'A mm. 

 long, minutely denticulate on the upper edge, slightly cordate on the 

 lower side at the base, the leaves of the upper plane acuminate, entire, 

 obliquely adnate at the base, with the outer base narrowly subcordate, 

 the sporophylla denticulate. 



New Guinea. 



