230 103. SELAGINELLA. INDEFINITAE. 



Shoots erect, caespitose^ to 2Vj cm. long, little compound, the stem 

 slender. Leaves very minute, subdimorphous, spaced; of the lower plane 

 ovate-oblong, acute, subentire; of the upper plane 'A as long, ovate- 

 acuminate, spreading. Spikes proportionally very broad, 12 times as broad 

 as the branchlets; sporophylla of the upper plane imbricated, ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate, subentire, keeled, unequal-sided; of the lower plane somewhat 

 smaller, ovate-lanceolate, rigidly ciliated, keeled, subspreading. 



Malaya to Br. India. 



a. Bliimei, Spring, Hon., II, 127. 



Shoots erect, the stem firm, slender, quadrangular, convex down the 

 face and back, flattened down the sides; pinnae erecto-patent, suberect, 

 straight; pinnulae flaccid, more or less compound, elongate-triangular in 

 outline. Leaves heteromorphous, rigid; lateral leaves dark-green above, 

 pale-glittering beneath, horizontally spreading on the main rachis, 

 ascending on the branchlets; of the main rachis the largest, linear-oblong, 

 s'ubensiform, 4 — 5 mm. long, IV2 mm. broad, blunt, the upper side den- 

 ticulate towards the rounded base, the lower side sparingly denticulate 

 at the truncate-cordate base; of the branchlets smaller, obliquely cuneate 

 at the base which is more rounded on the upper side; leaves of the upper 

 plane much smaller, Vs as long, adpressed, ovate, divaricating, straight, 

 aristate-acuminate, minutely denticulate, produced on the outer side at 

 the base. Spikes 5 — 15 mm. long; sporophylla distinctly heteromorphous. 



Java. 



b*. Bfachymtachyae. 



8. l¥rayl, Jfk., Fern All., 118. 



Shoots densely tufted, 15 cm, long, 2-pinnate; branches and branch- 

 lets ascending. Leaves moderately firm in texture, bright-green, those of 

 the lower plane oblique-ovate, 4 'A mm. long, more rounded on the upper 

 side at the base, those of the upper plane much smaller, ascending, 

 ovate, aristate. Spikes 4 — 6 mm. long; sporophylla of the upper plane 

 erecto-patent, rigid, ovate, acute; of the lower plane more ascending, 

 ovate, cuspidate. 



Malacca. 



